Economy
Fighting Job Sprawl
Placing offices close to public transit is one of the best ways to get drivers off the road
In the San Francisco Bay Area, there are three main downtowns: San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose. And while these are still civic and even cultural centers, they’ve been losing jobs for years. The San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR) is trying to find ways to lure those jobs back. Much of the issue pulling jobs out of the centers of these cities has to do with transportation, and access to public transit.
SPUR’s Regional Planning Director, Egon Terplan, is working on a new report detailing why jobs have left and how to get them back, and he answered some questions about the challenges facing the Bay Area.