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- From: lazzaro@boom.CS.Berkeley.EDU (John Lazzaro)
- Newsgroups: ba.transportation
- Subject: Re: Cars as "something better"
- Date: 3 Jan 1993 21:35:04 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- In article <1i7jipINNdvt@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> fuzzface@cats.ucsc.edu (Aaron Priven) writes:
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- >Well, I think you attribute quite a lot to the transit system. But I
- >agree, it's one piece.
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- Yes, I agree totally ... rarely do businesses make a location decision
- based on a single factor alone. But the value of transit is not
- trivial or negligible to such decisions. For example, imagine you are
- making the decision as to whether to put a 20-person software company
- in Emeryville or in downtown Berkeley. Because both are in the same
- county, all government issues above the city level are equal. Office
- space in downtown Berkeley is more expensive than Emeryville, the city
- government in Berkeley is more hostile than Emeryville, freeway access
- in Emeryville is better, parking is more available, so why are there
- any software companies in Berkeley?
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- Easier access to the university is a plus, for sure, as are the
- creature comforts of a college town (bookstores, cafe's), but a BART
- station within walking distance is also an attraction that factors
- into the decision. Maybe some folks from those companies would like to
- comment ...
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