Mike Carroll, the city's deputy managing director for Transportation and Infrastructure Systems, has seen a lot of changes over the past 10 years. "In the past, I think you may have seen people really frustrated by what they saw coming and going from the stations — feeling like as soon as they got to where they wanted to go they wanted to get away as quickly as possible," Carroll said. Now, though, "you find that people are interested in looking for what they can do around these stations, to make them places, to make them real cornerstones of the community. The last 10 years, I think we've started to [focus more on stations], but I think in the next 10 years, you'll see that really accelerate."