Are you regularly stuck in traffic, wishing that San Diego had better alternatives? In fact, the region has a robust rail transit network – the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System (MTS) – which could serve as a vital community asset to help drive the development of transit-oriented, thriving neighborhoods and districts. But when it comes to providing opportunities for more people to take advantage of the existing system, our station areas barely make the grade.
A statewide report from the UC Berkeley School of Law’s Center for Law, Energy and Environment, or CLEE, measuring the value public rail transit stations bring their neighborhoods ranked the Downtown Berkeley BART station among the best in BART.
San Diego trolley stops received an overall grade of C-minus in a statewide study released Tuesday of how transit rail stations encourage ridership and impact the quality of life in surrounding neighborhoods.
Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority rail stations received an overall grade of C in a statewide study released of how transit rail stations encourage ridership and impact the quality of life in surrounding neighborhoods.
A study released Monday by the nonprofit Next 10 and prepared by the Center for Law, Energy and the Environment at the UC Berkeley School of Law gave the Los Angeles County Metro’s Wardlow Station an F, the worst grade for a station within the LA County Metro transit system.
Metro received a grade of C in a new study which evaluated how transit rail stations encourage ridership and impact the quality of life in surrounding neighborhoods.
The analysis was issued by Next 10, a nonprofit nonpartisan group, and prepared by the UC Berkeley School of Law's Center for Law, Energy and the Environment.
