Tying Development to Rail is HART’s Next Frontier

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Mark Abramson over at Pacific Business News has his own take on a new idea by the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation.

HART wants to create a committee of developers to help stimulate building along the city’s $5.26 billion rail line.

This has always been a major selling point of the project. It’s called transit-oriented development, or TOD.

Abramson used to live in the Bay Area and writes in his blog about his experiences with TOD.

Here’s an excerpt:

Having lived in an area where TOD is a major part of life — the San Francisco Bay Area where a Caltrain station was near my house — and having seen development near BART stations, it’s obvious that TOD is a vital part of any transit system. But I’ve also seen its problems, such as vacant stores in mixed-use TOD projects at the Dublin/Pleasanton BART station and empty condominiums built near another station.

You can read the entire blog post here.

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