It has been well documented that large companies offering transit benefits to their employees gain payroll tax savings, lower health-benefit costs, increased employee productivity, and better retention levels. But we seem to hear less about the advantages to small companies.
There are a lot of reasons to be frustrated with the federal government, but making Americans’ commutes longer has got to be one of the worst. And yes it’s true, the federal government is Subsidizing Congestion. That’s the name of the report by TransitCenter and The Frontier Group that describes the numerous ways in which a relatively obscure U.S. tax policy impacts commuters.
In real estate, the smartest move for developers is to build and invest in cities that have multiple transportation options. To be competitive, embrace transit-oriented development (TOD). Those are two main takeaways of a report from Cushman and Wakefield exploring 10 major cities (Mexico City, Manhattan, Los Angeles, Chicago, Toronto, Washington D.C., Miami, Atlanta, Boston, and San Francisco) experiencing rapid population growth. The most prosperous were those that were transit oriented.
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How do government leaders learn from one another? One example is the recent tour Arlington County leaders offered to representatives from multiple Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) districts to showcase the county’s best practices in pedestrian and bicycle engineering.
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Apple’s announcement in September regarding the 2015 launch of the Apple Watch has some pundits wondering if the tech giant can do for wearable tech what it did for the MP3 player and smartphone: create a must-have consumer device out of a fledgling, yet promising, product line.