Development

Transit-Oriented Development Forum

Norman "The Human Tape Reco'der" Oder cranks out a nice report on this week's Transit-Oriented Development forum at NYU for his blog, Atlantic Yards Report:

By Aaron Naparstek

9:39 AM EST on November 3, 2006

Norman “The Human Tape Reco’der” Oder cranks out a nice report on this week’s Transit-Oriented Development forum at NYU for his blog, Atlantic Yards Report:

Though the symposium conspicuously avoided controversial developments like Hudson Yards and Atlantic Yards, Jon Orcutt, executive director of the Tri-State Transportation Campaign offered a caution in the Q&A period. “There’s a lot of bad car development going on,” he said, citing big box stores on Bruckner Boulevard in the Bronx or in Red Hook. Even projects near transportation hubs, he added, citing Atlantic Yards, show “it’s possible to do design that isn’t the best transit-oriented development.”

Aaron Naparstek

Aaron Naparstek is the founder and former editor-in-chief of Streetsblog. Based in Brooklyn, New York, Naparstek's journalism, advocacy and community organizing work has been instrumental in growing the bicycle network, removing motor vehicles from parks, and developing new public plazas, car-free streets and life-saving traffic-calming measures across all five boroughs. He was also one of the original cast members of the "War on Cars" podcast. You can find more of his work on his website.