Smart Growth and Transportation: Issues and Lessons Learned. Keynote Presentation

Stating that smart growth is a long-term commitment in Maryland, the Governor of Maryland gives many examples of such commitment. He points out the necessity of government policies that encourage investment in existing communities and in smart growth areas. He also speaks of the private-sector investments in smart growth, and how, together, public and private investments are redeveloping existing communities and expanding mass transit options. He concludes by answering the fundamental question: What is our vision of the future? He offers two competing visions, both for Maryland and for America's future. One leads to a worsening quality of life, but the other offers a better future--one in which traveling to work or anywhere is affordable and convenient with public transit, where walking on sidewalks and using bicycle-friendly facilities are real options, and in which breathing becomes easier because the air is less polluted.

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• Authors:
  • Glendening, Parris N
• Conference:
  • Providing a Transportation System to Support Smart Growth: Issues, Practice, and Implementation
  • Location: Baltimore Maryland, United States
  • Date: 2002-9-8 to 2002-9-10
• Publication Date: 2005

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Pagination: pp 64-68
• Monograph Title: Smart Growth and Transportation: Issues and Lessons Learned. Report of a Conference
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Board Conference Proceedings
  • Issue Number: 32
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 1073-1652

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Communities; Governments; Investments; Land use planning; Policy; Private enterprise; Public transit; Quality of life; Smart growth; Transportation planning
• Geographic Terms: Maryland
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01000202
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309094968
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: May 10 2005 12:36PM