On 8/12/2010 8:53 PM, Steve Pope wrote:
> > wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 23:12:39 +0000 (UTC),
>
>>> I agree armed transit cops are unnecessary, but the argument
>>> is that they are responisble for policing BART parking lots,
>>> which are the site of vehicle breakins and assaults, and you
>>> need armed cops to deter and/or respond to such activity.
>
>> Why? I don't see armed guards in regular parking lots.
>
> I am not an adherent of this argument, I am just saying this
> is the argument cop-types are promoting.
>
>>> My proposed solution to that is to get rid of BART parking lots
>>> as well.
>
>> Get rid of BART parking lots and you'll put more people back on the
>> roads. People drive to the parking lots because there is poor public
>> transit from their home to the station.
>
> 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.
So you're saying that the people who now drive would all abandon their
current domiciles and relocate to those buildings?
You really seem to be missing the point of a transportation system.