J. Clarke > wrote:

>On 8/12/2010 8:53 PM, Steve Pope wrote:

>> 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.

You're not taking a long enough point of view. Part of transportation
planning, an important part, is to build housing near transportation,
something California has historically failed to do. (Although
there is finally a state law requiring this.)


Steve