Transit village

Transit village

A transit village is a planned development around a transportation hub, such as a train station, with the intent to make it convenient for village dwellers to get to/from work or run errands and travel via a public transportation network.

Portland, Oregon has actively pursued transit village style development along the Portland area light rail known as Metropolitan Area Express (MAX). California is also exploring transit village development options for its evolving transit systems.

New Jersey Transit and some local communities in New Jersey are working on developing transit villages in locations such as Hamilton Township, Mercer County, New Jersey along New Jersey Transit's Northeast Corridor rail line and Somerville, New Jersey along New Jersey Transit's Raritan Valley Line rail line. The effort is termed [http://www.state.nj.us/transportation/community/village/ Transit Village Initiative] .

ee also

* New Urbanism
* Smart growth
* Urban sprawl
* Transit-oriented development
* Transit-proximate development
* Principles of Intelligent Urbanism

External links

* [http://www.transitvillages.org/ transitvillages.org]
* [http://www.transitorienteddevelopment.org/index.html Transit Oriented Development]


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