The Changing Workplace: Locate Near Light Rail

The #6 of our top seven changes in the workplace for the 21st century: locate near light rail or train station.

Your Gen Y customers want to travel via light rail and train, not by highway.
Your Gen Y staff want to get to work via light rail and train, not by highway.
Gen Y is the future of your workplace and your organization.

Gen Y is moving into dense neighborhoods, and cities are now growing faster than suburbs. Now businesses and work organizations have to make a decision: stay or move.
Some, like colleges, are staying and trying to recruit local officials to put a light rail or train stop next to their location. That's a good strategy.

That failing, organizations will need to move, or face a workforce without some of the best talent, and/or declining customer base. 

This is what a beaver looks like in the water. It is much bigger than a muskrat.

Beaver splash. But here's how you can really tell it's a beaver. Only the beaver slaps the water with its big paddle-like tail while diving down. 

 

Comments

[David Lubic]

Another rail story, from Wisconsin, too. And note there are detractors of the railroad as well.

http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/focus-on-dane-county-in-rarity-freight-rail-service-returns/article_5f755286-fbb4-5a4e-bde9-754d6fed5d29.html

[David Lubic]

From the International Snowmobile Congress meeting in Colorado:

https://www.facebook.com/Isc2015/photos/a.511188769010708.1073741830.316872141775706/511189225677329/?type=3&theater

[David Lubic]

This is mixed news. More and more rail lines are coming back to life, even some that were always secondary routes. Against this, we are seeing increasing opposition to rail service in some places. This includes Florida, where a private railroad has proposed reentering passenger service. Unfortunately, a lot of people are skeptical of the railroad and its management.

https://www.facebook.com/floridanotallaboard

Then there's this group that wants to rip out an existing, though not all active, railroad for a snowmobile trail.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/107243836054598/

The great, great irony is that this group, which claims it has more economic impact than the railroad, is in a business that has seen the sales of snowmobiles decline by 66% (!) in the last 16 years!