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by sand500 3164 days ago
That works if you have the land to do that. The Virginia side of the DC area has lots of high rise apartments and skyscrapers built around the metro station and it definitely works to keep cars off the road but I don't know of the same thing can be done in the bay.
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> I don't know of the same thing can be done in the bay.

Walk by any of the BART stations in the East Bay (even Downtown Oakland), and you'll see vacant fields and mostly empty parking lots. The area near MacArthur BART could be densified to a crazy degree without displacing a soul.

Balboa park station is surrounded by single family homes. Colma is inhabited by people who no longer need transportation.