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Originally Posted by Afsnyder
It‘s a shame that there‘s all these parking garages that sits empty on the weekends and most are designed for max capacity - that is never reached. SSF should require they share garage space and provide a maximum parking allotment to encourage public transit. It would be nice too if SSF funded a light rail or Caltrain spur.
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Agreed. It's nice that South City has been able to grow as a global biotech and life sciences hub and attract all these new developments, but just wish they would do a better job of figuring out how to build these projects in a more urban minded fashion. They are in a tough spot though since 101 basically splits the city in half and is a huge barrier, and the roads in the East Side are all very sprawly in design. A lot of the city is also still very industrial, obviously, as it is The Industrial City after all.
One option could be extending the Muni down from both M Ocean View down into Daly City and Colma and then into South City, connecting to another extension coming from T Third connecting to Brisbane and Oyster Point and the East Side, and then these two extensions can meet along Grand Ave in downtown SSF. At minimum, they should develop some sort of rapid bus/shuttle network linking BART and Caltrain with all these companies. I'm guessing a lot of the workers here take employer hired shuttle buses to work as well. It's probably time that SSF starts looking into transforming the East Side into a more mixed use neighborhood, sprinkling in some high density housing and commercial. Right now it's far too one dimensional with just sprawly suburban style office parks and warehouses.
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