Sunday, April 02, 2006
More residential density is going to make this better?
Consider this Washington Post article about a large garden apartment complex in Oxon Hill, Prince George's County, Maryland:
Md.: For Tenants, Threats Lurk in The Unknown
Then consider that the Campaign to Re-Invest in the Heart of Oxon Hill asserts that more density in Oxon Hill around the Southview Apartments will somehow obviate the need for more highway capacity to the south of this area, and will "induce" demand for a Metrorail heavy rail transit line.
Then consider this from 2001.
Then consider:
(1) This - the Sierra Club's effort to stop the reconstruction and widening of the nearby Woodrow Wilson Bridge in 1999; and
(2) Sierra's effort to "save" Eagle Cove on the Potomac River (a mined-out sand-and-gravel pit) from the developers of the new upscale National Harbor project - while also demanding more density around the Southview Apartments.
And the according to this Washington Post article from 2005, the eagles are doing quite well in spite of the noise, dust and the mud of Wilson Bridge reconstruction project - and the massive queues of traffic that form at this narrow six-lane Capital Beltway crossing of the Potomac River on almost a daily basis. Scott Kozel's excellent Roads to the Future site also has a page about the Wilson Bridge that he updates frequently here (including nice photos of the construction effort).
Getting back to the Post story above about Southview, why is it that so few want to talk about crime, criminal activity and residential density? Land use and how it relates to transportation modes is something we hear about all the time, but land use and crime, almost never.
Md.: For Tenants, Threats Lurk in The Unknown
Then consider that the Campaign to Re-Invest in the Heart of Oxon Hill asserts that more density in Oxon Hill around the Southview Apartments will somehow obviate the need for more highway capacity to the south of this area, and will "induce" demand for a Metrorail heavy rail transit line.
Then consider this from 2001.
Then consider:
(1) This - the Sierra Club's effort to stop the reconstruction and widening of the nearby Woodrow Wilson Bridge in 1999; and
(2) Sierra's effort to "save" Eagle Cove on the Potomac River (a mined-out sand-and-gravel pit) from the developers of the new upscale National Harbor project - while also demanding more density around the Southview Apartments.
And the according to this Washington Post article from 2005, the eagles are doing quite well in spite of the noise, dust and the mud of Wilson Bridge reconstruction project - and the massive queues of traffic that form at this narrow six-lane Capital Beltway crossing of the Potomac River on almost a daily basis. Scott Kozel's excellent Roads to the Future site also has a page about the Wilson Bridge that he updates frequently here (including nice photos of the construction effort).
Getting back to the Post story above about Southview, why is it that so few want to talk about crime, criminal activity and residential density? Land use and how it relates to transportation modes is something we hear about all the time, but land use and crime, almost never.
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