If you want to know why the Bay Area is so fucked up, look no further than BART stations. During normal services, there are trains every 3-4 minutes between here and downtown San Francisco. Not a few stations away mind you, THE NEXT STOP is Embarcadero Station. If you live here you are SIX MINUTES away from Downtown San Francisco. What is the space used for? Parking. Not housing, not skyscrapers, not even single family homes, parking. This whole area should be gigantic affordable housing projects.
Aren't there housing spots right there across the street though? I mean, when I think shittiness of BART, west Oakland stop is the last place I think of. I think more of BART stops like Dublin/Pleasanton or Pittsburg/Antioch, out in the suburban shitholes