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Re:Why the San Francisco Bay Area should have 11 million res... by mjn on Monday May 14, 2012 @11:17PM (#3974684)
Yes, unfortunately the whole area is built on an assumption that you have a car. Santa Clara County in particular is amazing in that it's one of the few places in the world that has three levels of grade-separated freeways: national highways, state highways, and county highways. The latter (San Tomas Expressway, etc.) were paid for out of the money that Santa Clara County saved by opting out of BART, which is not coincidentally why the public transit is bad.
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Re:Why the San Francisco Bay Area should have 11 million res... by mattdeboard on Tuesday May 15, 2012 @12:00AM (#3974814)
I'm sorry but after living in Santa Clara Co. for a couple years, then moving back to my home state of Indiana, I can say with absolutely no compunction that Santa Clara Co. is a MECCA compared to where I live now in terms of public transpo.

Maybe it could be a ton better but my god I cannot wait until it's time to move back there.

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Re:Why the San Francisco Bay Area should have 11 million res... by jarek on Tuesday May 15, 2012 @03:12AM (#3975381)
SCVTA is pretty bad compared to some select localities in North America (NYC, SF itself, Montreal off the top of my head). On a world scale it barely registers, the transport infrastructure compares unfavourably with, say, Lille.

Compared to Indiana it may well be nice.

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