Land Use

Greater Mercer Transportation Management Association (GMTMA), the Regional Transportation Management Association for Mercer and Ocean counties held its Annual Meeting and Luncheon at the Hyatt [...]

A recent Smart Growth America article highlights the ways in which cities can commit to reducing emissions and steps mayors can take to achieve the Climate Actions Agenda goals. Some of the steps [...]

Project for Public Spaces (PPS) released a new report, The Case for Healthy Places, in December 2016 in which they highlight key areas that support healthy placemaking.  According to PPS one’s [...]

Last week on Wednesday, June 15, some of us at Greater Mercer TMA attended the Sustainability Summit organized by Sustainable Jersey. Several interesting things were announced during the summit, [...]

Sweden knows a thing or two about safe streets; they have the safest streets in the world.  That is why their approach to reducing traffic fatalities, Vision Zero, was adopted in other countries [...]

In this TED talk Enrique Peñalosa, former mayor of Bogota, speaks about mobility and why buses represent democracy in action. Although he talks mostly about mobility in developing countries, it [...]

A big thank you to everyone who rode their bike to work during GMTMA’s Bike to Work Week challenge this year! In just one week you eliminated 300 car trips and rode over 1800 miles! While many [...]

GMTMA is excited to announce the launch of the brand new “Good Moves” program. Good Moves is a personalized transportation planning service for Mercer and Ocean counties residents. It is a free [...]

Millennials and Baby Boomers… the two generations may not seem to have anything in common, but when it comes to preference for the type of community they want to live in they are in [...]

So, you want an affordable, good-sized house.  To get it, you have to move far away from the city.  This was the prevailing direction of housing migration in our country for many years, and it is [...]