Light rail was supposed to cause a development boom
in the Hiawatha corridor, but a new study shows that the Blue Line has
had little effect on land use near rail platforms in its first six
years.
Sarah
West, an economics professor at Macalester College, and Needham Hurst, a
graduate student at Harvard, found that the Blue Line, which began
carrying passengers between the Mall of America and downtown Minneapolis in 2004, caused almost no increase in the likelihood of new development up to 2010. Their new paper is coming out in Regional Science and Urban Economics.
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