Is Tehran thirsty for "density" or "metro"?
The opposite perception of city managers about TOD.
Expect the housing market:
1 The map drawn in Tehran for "the main construction sites of the next 15 years".
From the point of view of urban experts and 2 former deputy mayors, this can intensify "a big challenge of living in the capital" contrary to the claim of the map designers; "movement".
2 The name of this map is TOD.
3 But TOD is a global model of city development, which, according to the original definition, means "developing the livability and population of the city".
4 In cities that have "physical development capacity and population density," this model determines the location of new construction around public transit stations so that "time-consuming car traffic" is as low as possible.
5 In Tehran, on the other hand, the "big issue" of the city and its citizens is not "future development".
Tehran's big problem is the "weakness of the metro network in 3 sectors".
The Tehran Metro does not have a proper distribution of lines, it lacks stations and the access to the existing stations is not suitable.
6 The bus network has almost lost the "necessary efficiency" for citizens because it is located next to private car traffic.
7 These weaknesses of the public transportation network transferred the pressure of the displacements to the "movement of vehicles".
8 In this situation, the city administration's main priority should be "building 4 new metro lines", "increasing at least 1.5 times the number of stations" and "redefining public transport access routes".
9 But this priority gave way to "defining new construction capacity (density)" around places that "still lack a metro station" and also around "stations that are far from the reach of the residents of the nearby neighborhoods".
With this map, population density can increase without understanding the actual TOD, which is "Transit Based Load".
1 1 The probability that this scenario will happen is high because in the last two decades, according to the warning of a former traffic deputy in Tehran Municipality, the speed of construction compared to the speed of development of the subway was like "the speed of light compared to the speed of movement of a turtle".
◀ In a recent debate between TOD designers and municipal managers on the one hand and critics of the plan and former municipal officials on the other, regarding this map.