Talking Headways Podcast: Guidelines and Expectations for Transit Oriented Development
This week we’re joined by Abby Thorne Lyman, who manages the transit-oriented development program at BART. Abby discusses how the agency pulled together its new transit-oriented development guidelines. We talk about the importance of reduced parking, the ridership benefits of TOD, and expectations transit agencies should have for property developers.
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Jeff Wood
3:30 PM EDT on September 15, 2017
This week we’re joined by Abby Thorne Lyman, who manages the transit-oriented development program at BART. Abby discusses how the agency pulled together its new transit-oriented development guidelines. We talk about the importance of reduced parking, the ridership benefits of TOD, and expectations transit agencies should have for property developers.
Jeff Wood is the creator of the Talking Headways podcast and editor of the newsletter The Overhead Wire.
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