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Originally Posted by Quixote
Since BART is essentially a LIRR-type system (e.g. commuter rail) with very wide station spacing (2.5 miles on average), you still need the parking infrastructure to cater to the existing ridership base.
Building mid-rises (let alone high-rises) around most BART stations isn't realistically feasible anyway, since the ROW runs along a freeway median or cuts through very suburban neighborhoods.
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This gives an inaccurate impression of what the built environment looks like around many Bart stations. The land use around lots of them is truly embarrassing since it's often made up of strip malls/big box, acres of surface parking, or simply swaths of vacant land the municipality it sits in won't zone for dense residential.
I mean Jesus christ just look at Concord as one example:
