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Transportation
investments always influence patterns of development because they create
opportunity around them. How that development might occur in
Southeastern Massachusetts was the subject of a two-hour discussion
organized by the
Regional Sustainability Exchange on April 15, 2009, at the
Advanced Technology and
Manufacturing Center. The prospect of a South Coast Rail line
sometime in the next decade provides the opportunity to rethink the
transportation network, reshape patterns of land use, protect
ecosystems, enhance green infrastructure, reduce auto dependency and cut
carbon emissions. The purpose of this exchange is to build a regional
collaborative that works toward a sustainable future and to give
communities the resources need to move toward economic and environmental
sustainability.
Click here for the Herald News article about the event. For more
information about the event, contact
Louise Haridman at
SRPEDD, 508-824-1367 or
Kathleen Christianson of
the UMass-Dartmouth
Office of Campus and Community
Sustainability. |
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(Top row, left) Fall River Planning Director Jim Hartnett greets Walter Sullivan of the Capeway Rail Terminal in Middleboro. (Top row, center) SRPEDD Executive Director Steve Smith chats with Executive Committee Chair Susan Peterson of Rochester before the presentation. (Top row, right) Former New Bedford Mayor and and President of the Sea Education Association (SEA) John Bullard welcomes participants at the Advanced Technology and Manufacturing Center. (Middle row, left and right) Jim Hartnett listens as Mayor Correia talks about the vision of a rail connection to Fall River. (Bottom row, left and center) Linda Grubb and Kathleen Christianson of the UMass-Dartmouth Office of Campus and Community Sustainability who sponsored the event along with SRPEDD and the Island Foundation. |
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