Situated at the very heart of the Bay Area’s mass transit system, Oakland is busy working to facilitate the development of its eight Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) stations into transit oriented villages.
When completed, these villages will provide sustainable places where people live, work, shop and relax with minimal dependence on the automobile. Each will have a distinct character. All will be connected with each other and linked to the surrounding city neighborhoods.
Oakland’s downtown has different parts with distinctive characters. Its ongoing transformation demonstrates the challenges and benefits of implementing TOD in an intensely developed, already established area.
Here is a link to know more about this cool TOD
http://www.equinoxcenter.org/assets/files/oaklandnowspecialtodsummitissue2003.pdf
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