Transit oriented development is a good thing, but it has to be balanced and planned right. So far, this region is not doing that. From what I've seen, I've mostly witnessed this as "let's build a fancy LRT and hope big condos and boutiques open up along the route so the city looks good". It's gentrifying the areas along the LRT but the region is not providing low income housing and adequate transportation to blue collar jobs that are not exactly near the LRT. We're pushing low income people further and further away from the core of the city (there are literally homeless people living in the forests of Hidden Valley next to multi-million dollar homes because we keep kicking them to the curb). Poor people are not necessarily benefitting from this form of development and that should be a serious concern of every citizen.
https://www.objectifliberte.fr/2010/03/d...emain.html [in French]
https://www.frbsf.org/community-developm...mmunities/
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/eas...f/-char/en
https://community-wealth.org/sites/clone...nk-TOD.pdf
https://www.objectifliberte.fr/2010/03/d...emain.html [in French]
https://www.frbsf.org/community-developm...mmunities/
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/eas...f/-char/en
https://community-wealth.org/sites/clone...nk-TOD.pdf