Comments on: BART, Josefowitz, and Mass Transit in the Bay

By: BART Interview | a city asymmetry

BART Interview | a city asymmetry — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 17:28:13 +0000

[…] suburban directors. It’s interesting, because Josefowitz was mentioned on the Market Urbanism blog. Will Mr. Josefowitz be able to convince more suburban directors that they don’t need as much […]

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 21:54:00 +0000

Wow. How many spots does it have?

By: ardecila

ardecila — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 04:37:00 +0000

How does this differ from the “Transit Villages” already proposed around several BART stations? These are medium-density at best, and while they may create a better environment around stations, they are an order of magnitude down from the type of intense highrise development seen in Hong Kong.

By: Owen

Owen — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 20:14:00 +0000

Well, BART is officially a transit system, but its most important and powerful function is that BART is the single largest institutional provider of off-street parking in the USA. The incumbent leadership has always put parking ahead of all the transportation activities that BART is nominally involved in.

Sounds like Josephowitz may understand that and want to actually profit off it instead of obsessively subsidizing cars and suburbanization at the highest possible cost in public funds as BART usually does.