Great video on "suburban" transit oriented development.

Ironically, given the post from the other day, "The ability to develop around transit stations is conditional on land use and mobility context," this video, "WAIT, a train runs INSIDE your house?," discusses transit oriented development at suburban rail stations and the opportunity that this brings to create "town centers" in places that too often are placeless.

It's super well done.

Rob Sanders, "Road Guy Rob," is a former journalist who is also a civil engineer. As a journalist he did many stories on transportation issues. He has a website covering not just automobile-related transportation, with videos and podcasts. 

The thing it doesn't get into is the difference between living a sustainable mobility lifestyle versus taking the train to and from work.  Most suburban places are so deconcentrated that you still need a car to perform most of your trips, as transit service isn't particularly frequent or dense.

This comes down to the difference between "monocentric" and polycentric places, which is probably best discussed in Steve Belmont's Cities in Full and in effect is what I discussed in the previous entry.  Images below from Cities in Full.