[jakelarkin]

"just need to live further away"

there's the rub. most suburban outposts of transit on the west coast just have SFH around them, which is a nice $billion entitlement to public infrastructure if you can get it. anyway THOSE people have the most to lose (neighborhood, lifestyle) from new apartments and a huge amount of political leverage over land-use in their area.

in summary, very fine grain local control of housing/transit planning is bad.

[masonic]

  most suburban outposts of transit on the west coast just have SFH around them

If you define "suburban" as SFH neighborhoods, that's a tautology.

With respect to Caltrain, it's not the case at all.