Browsing Category Transportation

Proximity to rail equals higher property values?

Estately , one of the best real estate search sites out there puts forth this as fact – When buying a home, living near rail lines is better . … *For real estate blog geeks (like me) the first line of my post in May ’05 is intriguing to me – “Found this blog today with a very interesting story about the above subject -” ” this blog ” is the venerable Rain City Guide .

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Bike Week in Charlottesville

(gas prices are absolutely impacting ever facet of our lives – real estate, too ) “Many people did the ‘drive to qualify,’ ” looking in farther-out suburbs to find affordable homes, says Joe Cortright, an analyst at Impresa Inc., a consulting firm. … One thing I am wondering is this – where are the best places to buy recycled bikes in the Charlottesville area?

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A great comment on mass transit in Central Virginia

In a discussion at Charlottesville Tomorrow:We still have a narrow window of opportunity to buy right-of-way for transit; use existing shoulders; use existing rails; even put BRT lanes on the Meadowcreek Pkwy….  If you can’t walk to a bus/trolly; if you can’t get there on a safe bicycle lane; if you can’t park & ride, the system will be underused.  The system MUST connect and serve all of our county growth areas.There’s a lot more there, and it’s well worth reading in its entirety.  The Central Virginia region is likely to look much, much different in fifty years than it does today.

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Too short-sighted for our own good?

I’m not taking a position on this argument at Treehugger but have a question:A lot of the infrastructure in this country needs to be re-built,” says Gardner, University of New Hampshire associate professor of civil engineering and director of the Environmental Research Group.  “We have a real opportunity to re-build the infrastructure the right way with sustainable materials and socially sensitive designs that protect air, water, land, and human resources.”My question is – do we have the capacity, the intestinal fortitude and political will to do whatever has to be done?…  Is our infrastructure, as we know it, adequate for the next 100 years?  This absolutely is a real estate query – quality infrastructure and “getting places” contributes greatly to quality of life – and therefore real estate values.

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