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Originally Posted by SFBruin
I would agree, but I don't think that Oakland is special in this regard. Basically every town with a BART station should have high-rise or at least mid-rise development around that station.
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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.