It is amazing how the highway lobby gets their hands on all the money. When a BART extension project took tracks over Mission Blvd in Fremont, the highway lobby used the opportunity for a massive $150 million road widening:
This monster freeway interchange lies just south of the new Warm Springs BART station. The entire station area has been surrounded by a moat of highways and freeway interchanges.
Even though there have been various bike plans for the south Fremont area, none of it has been built (unless you count riding on the shoulder of a high speed arterial). So good luck using the new BART station to generate walkable, bikeable TOD development that was promised. And anyone dumb enough to try biking through there will suffer the consequences.
Systemic Failure 
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The road had to be widen to get people too and from the Tesla factory. They’re trying to build tomorrowland there, you can’t expect people to walk like it is yesterday. What the fuck is wrong with you.
Thanks for pointing out the disconnect between the BART PR spin and the reality. BART extensions, like the not-yet-approved Livermore extension, are promoted to be more sustainable then the suburban BART construction of the original system and all of its extensions so far. Extending BART ever farther out into suburbia is justified with the promise of transit-oriented development in close proximity to stations instead of acres of parking lots (and their accompanying super size streets). Having written that, I’m still glad that BART’s being extended to San Jose but it’s more than too bad if land use near the new stations is so incredibly automobile oriented.