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Originally Posted by BobbyMucho
What the South Bay (and Bay Area as a whole) needs are more places to live, near places to work, near mass transit.
This chicken and the egg style criticism is ignorant.
All of the above needs to be built and/or improved, but arguing that one is lacking and, therefore, should not invest in the other is absurd.
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Your critique here is lacking. I complain about huge development far from transit and your response is
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What the South Bay (and Bay Area as a whole) needs are more places to live, near places to work, near mass transit.
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What the South Bay needs specifically is less of this kind of huge development away from transit, and more development geared towards transit, like what is going on in San Jose, but in other cities. Instead of office towers near Lockhead Martin, Sunnyvale should've double down on rebuilding downtown Sunnyvale with office towers, and not 8 stories, 10-12 or more. Mountain View instead of expanding more offices for Google and LinkedIn in the suburbs, should have started rezoning the parking lots near Castro St for similar office buildings. All these cities have mass transit, and they turned their backs on it, and then a developer chooses to add a big development with about as much office space as downtown San Jose combined, out in the north end where there are only offices parks and not really mass transit and you're all like this is what the South Bay needs.
That is ignorant, and completely ignorant of the issues here, well either that or you just don't care. The roads are already clogged during rush hour that now starts before 3pm in the afternoons, and we want more road dependent development?, 9.8Msqft of office space is enough for 49000 employees, only up to 3200 of which can live there, the rest all driving in from San Jose, Milpitas, Fremont etc, since they have no real way to get there otherwise.
Let's not pretend they will take light rail that averages 14mph, and is not a short or friendly walk to their office, or Capitol Corridor or ACE that run about 3 trains during rush hour at best.