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January 13, 2006
Finally! A Mega-Development Looks to Transit
From Mobilizing the Region, "a weekly bulletin from the Tri-State Transportation Campaign (TSTC)."
Forest City Ratner told the New York Post recently that it is considering building the price of transit fares into Nets basketball game tickets for the proposed 19,000 seat arena in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn.
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Linking transit fares to sports tickets is a good method to reduce car use to the arena. If fans have already paid for transit fare by the very act of buying a game ticket, they will be more likely to use transit. Other stadiums, such as the ice hockey and NFL Europe stadiums in Duesseldorf, Germany, have had similar programs for years.But even if Ratner reduces car trips to the arena, that will only be a start in solving the transportation impacts of the project.
TSTC suggests other measures to help solve impacts on traffic and transportation: * reduction of scale, * traffic calming and * reducing parking.
Posted by lumi at January 13, 2006 8:55 AM