Parking Spaces at SMART Station & Ridership Potential
Author: Art Carney
Date: 08-15-2016 - 08:32
Has anyone looked at the lack of parking at SMART stations
and wondered exactly how will morning commuters get to SMART
stations? (I got under 500, but it depends on how one counts
Marin Civic Center.)
Based on documents on SMART's website (65% drawings), four stations
have no parking. Hamilton has a lot of parking. Marin Civic Center
has free parking (off SMART owned land). But who would drive to
either location to take a train one or two stops?
SMART's been touting 3,000 riders per day at start up. But I
don't see how they get close to that given so few spaces.
What happens then?