[sustran] Re: The Train - Capturing the value of . . .

[bruun at seas.upenn.edu]

Eric 1

Dave Wetzel is referring to the UK, but value capture is used to  
lesser or greater extent in a lot
of countries. Hong Kong's MTR and Japan's JR East both use it to great  
advantage by owning buildings
over major stations.

Eric 2



Quoting eric britton <eric.britton at ecoplan.org>:

> Dave Wetzel has this morning passed on this URL --
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47Jb-rlXJYg  -- which will take you to a 5
> minute clip produced by Fred Harrison. It looks into the anomaly hereby
> taxpayers finance infrastructure investments that create high value, that
> are captured not by the public as a whole but by the lucky individual
> landowners whose real estate values rise, often hugely, as a result of these
> public investments.
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> This is the whole concept in a nutshell of Value Capture, a valuable tool
> which is not being used or even much talked about, other than in exceptional
> circumstances,
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> Bottom line: Value Capture is a key element of the New Mobility Agenda
> strategy. Every public investments  So we all will do well to learn more
> about it and push the idea when the opportunity arises.
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> For more discussion of this, I invite you to go to
> http://tinyurl.com/landcafe-facebook and/or http://tinyurl.com/landcafe
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> Eric Britton
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