He says there is easier money to be made by illicitly re-exporting goods transiting through Odessa.
"It's got good bones -- good parks and good transit".
Its rebuilding was a victory for good transit.
It even has a big parking garage and good transit connections.
Most of the growth is going to need to be accommodated in Queens, which has good transit access; the southern part of the Bronx, which has very good transit access; and probably St . George in Staten Island, because you can walk to the ferry from there.
— Skip Blumberg, TriBeCa Mr. Zupan: Satellite centers are good as long as they are not designed for driving but for walking and mass transit and are dense enough to warrant good transit service and be connected well to Manhattan.
The transformation of suburbia can be seen in places like Arlington County, Va., Bellevue, Wash., and Pasadena, Calif., where strip malls have been bulldozed and replaced by higher-density mixed-use developments with good transit connections.
Mitchell Moss, an urban-planning professor at New York University, said that funkier suburbs like the river towns are getting a new look from "overeducated hipsters," not just because they have good schools, spacious housing and good transit, but because lately the restaurants are good enough to keep them in the suburbs on a Saturday night.
"They were sold to the board on the basis of, you know, how we elite Americans tend to think that everything is done better in Europe, so there was this feeling that if you want good transit, go to Europe," said Greg Harper, who is also on the AC Transit board.
In an interview I conducted back in September of last year, David Hodge of Embark said that getting really good transit results depended on focusing on one location at a time.
