"Yeah, it's a great point because, you know, going from, you know, Caltrain where most of the areas around those stations, and certainly in the city, but also in some of the peninsula cities where for those who have not visited the peninsula south of San Francisco and north of San Jose, it's dense in a way, like you might find on the mainline outside of Philadelphia or like a Boston commuter line."
"There's relatively high-ish amounts of density for not being in the middle of a center city. But you're right, once you get down to Santa Clara County, it's a lot more like what I was used to in Austin. Although, Austin's downtown growth is so supercharged and it is very vertical these days it's not really an apt comparison even then."
VTA operates in Santa Clara County where job centers are spread across Silicon Valley rather than concentrated in a single downtown. Caltrain corridor areas have relatively higher density around stations comparable to commuter corridors outside Philadelphia or Boston. Santa Clara County's development pattern more closely resembles lower-density cities like Austin, despite Austin's recent vertical downtown growth. The dispersed location of jobs and lower central-city density complicate transit routing, frequency, and ridership planning. Effective transit provision in the South Bay requires different strategies than those used in denser urban commuter markets.
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