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Here's a close-to-home example: the Stanford Research Park. It meets (in my opinion) the isolation requirement, but here's why I find it interesting: On a map,
by CaliforniaKarl 10y ago
Here's a close-to-home example: the Stanford Research Park. It meets (in my opinion) the isolation requirement, but here's why I find it interesting: On a map, the area has amazing transit accessibility. But, almost all of that transit is commute-time-only express routes. There is very little integration between the research park and the surrounding communities.
Maybe it's not on such a grand scale as the examples from the article, but things like this are closer than you think.
- greglindahl 10y agoIgnoring the commute-hour-only Stanford Marguerite shuttle, there's walking/biking/Ubering around 1.2 miles to the California Avenue Caltrain, or 3 miles to downtown Palo Alto... jobs at SRP generally pay pretty well. You can also walk about 0.4 miles to a Marguerite line that isn't commute-only.
- randycupertino 10y agoWhere is the Stanford Research park? My girlfriend works on Stanford campus and she complains about feeling isolated- she says it's like working on Mars. She works on Galvez and parks at the Stock Farm lot. But no running out on her lunch break to do errands- once you're on campus you're effectively trapped there.
- travem 10y ago> Where is the Stanford Research park? Check out http://stanfordresearchpark.com/explore http://stanfordresearchpark.com/explore There are a bunch of companies located here including parc, VMware, nest, SAP, Tesla, HPE, etc.
- CaliforniaKarl 10y agoGalvez cuts through most of East campus (either as Galvez St or as Galvez Mall), and the Stock Farm lot is on the far west end of campus, so with that much distance between car and work, I can understand that feeling! In that case (I commute into campus by bus), I'd use one of the Zipcars on campus to do lunchtime errands.
- karthikb 10y agoDoes she have a bike? You can be from most places on campus to downtown PA in ~10 mins.