Figure 13 shows an impressionistic summary of the evaluation criteria used and included in the summary report for elected officials and citizens. Numerous technical report appendices detail the hard numbers behind this evaluation. The implementation strategy provided for some level of transit service and improvement at all stages of implementation in each corridor. This was both an equity as well as a political consideration, since some of the corridors are more differentiated by income and race than others.
Figure 13:
The Plan report maps shows transit alignments against a clear backdrop of existing and future land use and indicate clearly where anticipated land use intervention is projected. The phasing plans and implementation tools (mainly incentives, but also some controls as shown in Table 1) are explicitly conditioned upon local jurisdictions making the necessary land use changes before additional transit investments would be supported.
Finally, care was taken to develop sketches of what future development at transit stations might look like under varying conditions so that the public had an idea of the visual and aesthetic impacts of the transit land use plan. (Figures 15 and 16) present some of these images.
