[PRCo] Re: P-G on the role of transit in growing neighborhoods

[Joshua Dunfield]

2009/1/12 Derrick J Brashear <shadow at dementia.org>:
> http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09012/941226-147.stm?cmpid=news.xml
>
> It's obvious from their examples that "build it and they will come" isn't
> true.

Well, I can believe that you can't possibly grow Squirrel Hill in a
vat without transit, but having transit is no guarantee that
everything else comes out right.  (I don't think "rapid" transit is
essential: Squirrel Hill has no rapid transit by any meaning of the
term, but transit is still broadly viable there, because Oakland is so
close.)

On George's point, since Pgh isn't bringing in enough new people, you
have to get the ones who already live there to move.  And I can't
imagine any development in Homewood or Beechview that would have led
me to move from Squirrel Hill.

-j.