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BART can fix that by building dense mixed use -- office, commercial, and residential -- around their stops.
by sagarm 1y ago
BART can fix that by building dense mixed use -- office, commercial, and residential -- around their stops.
- jyounker 1y agoBART can't do that. The cities can do that.
- somanyphotons 1y agoI think that's part of the problem, bart stations should be the centerpiece of a really dense (micro)neighbourhood
- lotsoweiners 1y agoLol. That sounds like you’re saying “well the neighborhood sure is shit but at least we’ve got good public transit”.
- immibis 1y agohave you ever lived in one of these places? Big cities in Europe are made entirely of them. They're pretty cool.
- pj_mukh 1y agoThey are doing that in East Bay [1] on BART owned land. They had been blocked so far by the most virulent NIMBY trash leading to some of the most scathing coverage [2]. Most have been unblocked and are under construction. The one still being blocked is Ashby BART because of (say it with me folks), a "HIsToriC flEa MARkeT" (that mostly sells stolen goods)[3]. [1]: https://www.bart.gov/about/business/tod https://www.bart.gov/about/business/tod [2]: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/30/magazine/housing-berkeley-yimby-fight.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/30/magazine/housing-berkeley... [3]: https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/09/17/berkeley-ashby-bart-air-rights-affordable-housing https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/09/17/berkeley-ashby-bart-...
- bee_rider 1y agoOk but “historic flea market” cannot possibly a real reason; this must be a parody. What’s the real reason (I won’t click the links due to the cognitive risk of having this ridiculous story confirmed).
- Lammy 1y ago> What’s the real reason My links are worth clicking: http://radicalcartography.net/bayarea.html http://radicalcartography.net/bayarea.html https://goldenstatswarrior.substack.com/p/the-great-migration-of-african-americans https://goldenstatswarrior.substack.com/p/the-great-migratio...