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I just don't buy it. If that were true you'd see a nice wedge shaped skyline pointing towards the airport. That's not what San Jose's skyline looks like. Not on
by bdamm 8y ago
I just don't buy it. If that were true you'd see a nice wedge shaped skyline pointing towards the airport. That's not what San Jose's skyline looks like. Not only that, but the vast majority of San Jose's economy comes from low-rise buildings that are not even remotely close to being limited by even the generous, previous-generation flight paths of today.
- Johnny555 8y agoSan Jose apparently discovered that it's hard to serve a spread-out low-rise city with transit, VTA light rail takes forever to go anywhere. Google wants to build near Diridon where Caltrain already goes, and BART will eventually be extended there (or at least to nearby San Jose downtown station) Being transit friendly requireds high density, high-density means tall buildings. San Jose can't continue its low-rise development if it wants effective transit.
- toast0 8y agoVTA light rail takes forever to go places for several reasons: All of the routes have too many turns. Maybe some are unavoidable, but splitting up into a east west route on the North end, a North south route on first Street / downtown, and whatever makes sense in the south of downtown routes would add transfers for many trips, but also reduce slow turns. In the downtown section, it stops at too many intersections. In the downtown section, one direction goes through a paved pedestrian area, which it needs to travel at walking speed while laying on the horn to encourage pedestrians to get out of the way.