The northern-most station of the recently-expanded Metro Light Rail is still bright and shiny, but give it time and it'll get broken in. I've been able to launch out of this location every time I've been house sitting (I now have two friends with dogs in the area).
My biggest beef with this station is the park-and-ride us completely uncovered. And if you don't get there early to score some shade next to a tree, you're coming back to a car that's like crawling into a furnace. That's more of an issue to me than when I saw a homeless man urinating on the platform the very first time I was here, because it wasn't the first time I've seen a homeless man relieving himself on the platform many times downtown. Ah, the stories of public transportation.