Parking Madness Elite Eight: El Cerrito vs. Chicago
We’re two weeks into our Parking Madness competition, and only a few parking craters are still standing.
Today’s Elite Eight matchup pairs a Bay Area suburb with America’s third largest city: It’s El Cerrito, California vs. Chicago.
First up is El Cerrito, which was singled out for shame by one of our readers because of this crater’s proximity to a BART station providing quick access to San Francisco.
The submitter pointed out that almost every BART station looks something like this, so in a sense the El Cerrito parking crater is standing in for the failure of an entire region to produce walkable development near transit.
Meanwhile, the Chicago crater suffers from sports venue syndrome:
We’ve seen this pretty consistently throughout the competition: In St. Louis, Grand Rapids, and Chicago, the spaces around public arenas are ghost towns inhabited only by cars.
This area, readers tell us, is especially disappointing because it has good transit access and is less than two miles away from the Loop. What a far cry from the walkability of Wrigleyville.
Tell us which crater you think deserves to reach the Final Four of Parking Madness.
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