Condo ad that promotes Metro access

Condo ad that promotes Metro access
Originally uploaded by rllayman

From the Express.

What is very frustrating about dealing with neighborhood groups or at least involved activists is discussions about transit oriented developments of greater intensity.

In the neighborhood that I deal with now, people are very very very very very very automobile centric. They think everyone drives.

Plus, people fail to recognize that various interest segments for housing do vary, and that not every development must either (1) satisfy every segment; or (2) be the same as their development.

This ad makes a very clear case for access to the subway. It's why I argue that housing by Metro stations is much better placed by location than other housing in other areas of the city that doesn't enjoy the same level of access.

Anyway, transit oriented development is merely bringing back the kind of development that existed in DC before 1930.