My new column for D Magazine’s March issue is available on shelves around the Metroplex and up online today. Please visit ere: http://www.dmagazine.com/Home/D_Magazine/2012/March/Why_We_Have_Made_Dallas_Roads_Faster_Deadlier.aspx
@mdunlap1 A walmart generates $6,500 tax revenue per acre. Typical downtown mixed-use generates $634,000. #strongtowns
Mia More walking friendly!!!!!! RT @fortworthology: We need resilient growth, not growth for growth’s sake. #strongtowns
patrick kennedy How do other people have to change what theyre doing so I don’t have to change my way of living? #strongtowns
A subdivision in MN, the tax rate would have to increase 10x to cover public investment #strongtowns
A project in MN, city gets return on public investment in 37 yrs. Road is built to last 20 years #strongtowns haha Chuck’s a comedian right?
New sprawl (“growth”) pays for old sprawl (liabilities) #strongtowns
Connect regionally, disconnect locally = disinvestment RT@fortworthology: Decreasing return on all hwy projects over the years #strongtowns
Transpo engineers recommend $6.6 Trillion in transpo spending by 2040. (ed note: transpo engineers get a cut of that) #strongtowns
State of MN (where Chuck is from) is facing $50 billion shortfall. TX is facing $488B just to maintain existing thru 2030. #strongtowns
Every year federal general fund is used to cover deficit in highway trust fund #strongtowns
Consumer spending rose 14% but retail space rose 100% btw 90-05 (both per capita) #strongtowns
fortworthology The future for most cities will not resemble the recent past of sprawl growth. #strongtowns
Sprawl growth is form of ponzi scheme RT @WalkableDFW: New sprawl (“growth”) pays for old sprawl (liabilities) #strongtowns
