Tuesday, June 08, 2010

Also, Not The Market

Had not realized that until recently developers around BART stations would have to replace all surface parking with expensive and of course still not tiny parking decks if they wanted to develop around them.

Need to move away from the park-n-ride model where possible and provide walkable living near good transit links.


...adding, for those who don't like to click through, lots of places don't have decent transit and some places which have decent transit in some sense have built it, suburban DC Metro-like, in highway medians and similar which don't really allow for decent transit oriented development. But there are also plenty of places, including chunks of suburban Philadelphia, where you do have a decent transit system except for the fact that for various reasons including zoning laws there has never been appropriate development around the stops.