Ann Arbor mixes land use, transit with new plan

Thursday, May 7, 2009 | Source: Concentrate
There's more to Ann Arbor's new transportation plan than just Point A and Point B and how to travel between the two.

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Transportation plans for cities (if they even have one) deal with the nuts and bolts of getting people from Point A to Point B and back again. Most of that plan focuses on how to achieve those goals with automobiles, and sometimes buses. Not in Ann Arbor.

Tree Town is evolving its thinking of transportation to include not just traditional transportation issues, such as bus routes, but land-use strategies. The idea is that both issues are intricately intertwined in one big circle of city life.

"We can't merely look at our transportation system without looking at the land use that generates the travel demand," says Eli Cooper, transportation program manager for the city of Ann Arbor.

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