Activists Slam NBC Universal Project in Times Op/Ed

The three co-chairs of the community based MTA/Universal Project Community Working Group penned an opinion piece skewering the planned NBC Universal development on an MTA Parking Lot near Universal Studios.  The authors tick off a laundry list of reasons to oppose the project, but there's one that should catch the eye of Streetsblog readers:

Now let's be clear, this project is planned for land that is currently an MTA parking lot.  Before a project of this size moves forward, it ought to have a serious plan, with measurable goals, on how it's going to move people to the site without relying on the automobile.  To  just call it "'smart growth, green growth and transit-oriented development at its height,'' and be relying on cars to move people to the point where you want a publicly built highway project that would cost hundreds of millions of dollars belies any claim that can be made that this is a Transit Oriented Development.

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