"When I got back to D.C., with its wide avenues and limited public transit, it just made sense, and I bought my own".
It will include shops, restaurants, walking paths, recreation and transit, and it will serve as an "activity generator," Byrne said.
Houston ranked well in education and transit, and it missed the top-ranking trifecta by just one spot on labor-force participation.
As Congress works to reauthorize highway and transit legislation, it must give metropolitan areas greater flexibility for financing transportation, rather than mandating that the vast bulk of the money can be used only for roads.
But if the nation cares about the environment, about staying connected, about balancing roads and rail and transit, then it will have to invest, as a nation, and plan, as a nation.
So much of the Aboriginal interface is about not doing, curbing curiosity and transit, that it seems incumbent to do something in the Western sphere.
And for Canarsie, perhaps even more so: in an area long burdened by high unemployment and transit woes, it could be said that this neighborhood is ground zero of where the L train shutdown will hit hardest.
Not only does the city offer good jobs and better-than-average public transit, it also boasts food trucks and, of course, cupcake shops.
"We're encouraging people to walk and bike and use transit and it just makes sense then to offer a public restroom as well in these places where people are gathering," said Angela Casias, legislative services manager for the Denver Department of Public Works.
