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Steve Pope

sf > wrote:

>On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:53:01 +0000 (UTC),

>> If you replaced the parking lots at North Berkeley, Ashby, MacArthur,
>> El Cerrito, etc. with 20-story apartment/condo buildings of
>> the same footprint as the existing parking lot, all the people
>> living in those buildings could then ride BART to work. The
>> system would have the same ridership it does now.

>Huh. I would have bet that you'd be in favor of getting as many
>riders as possible off the bridges and onto BART.

Yes, and the way to do that is to build high-density housing near
BART stations. That makes people less dependent on their cars.
Building parking lots merely enables that depedency.

S.