The San Francisco Bay Area's BART subway system is so financially fucked that it is likely going to be cutting 10/50 stations by January 2027 and 5 more by July 2027, cutting a total of 70% train hours and 25% of the system's miles, while also ending service at 9 PM every day and starting weekend service at 8 AM. Funny how the richest region of the United States with a bunch of Ponzi Scheme tech companies can't fund public transit. Looks like the tech workers and tech industry have ruined yet another thing.
Seems like both Caltrain and BART haven't recovered from the pandemic. Perhaps people just aren't going into the office, or they might be scared of being like that Ukrainian refugee that got merked in Atlanta. But it doesn't really sufficiently explain why the ridership numbers dropped off so significantly after the pandemicOr the BART agency is so wasteful with its spending that it can't handle a little lull in business
Seems like the tech companies prefer to run their own private bus lines for their workers. This was going on well before covid.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_tech_bus_protests
Plus you have Uber, Lyft, Cruise, Waymo, and Zoox all headquartered there. And also a Tesla factory. Could be factors.
>>2065190>>2065194>>2065197The tech industry is the reason for this system failing because this is the largest region of the county where remote work took over. BART has always been mostly a work commute system. Before Covid it was packed over capacity for the majority of commuting hours, I remember reports of how it was only made for something like 250k daily riders and it was carrying 500k per day. Since Covid it’s only back to like half or less of previous ridership because of remote work, and it is so dependent on fares that it’s gotten completely fucked.This is really just a terrible result. BART has been a really great and unique system, being a subway system but covering a ton of miles in a region connecting suburbs all over. I figured it was worth posting on here about it’s failure, especially because it’s an indictment on how America hates public transit where even one of the richest areas of the world can’t sustain a public transit system.
>>2065200bart doesn't even serve the tech industry what are you on about, it goes exactly where silicon valley isn'tconversely, caltrain, which does serve tech, has significantly improved recently. let's not talk about vta though
>>2065233>rich people want to live where there's a good train and not a shitty trainthat's fuckin crazy talk, why not force them to live where there's a bart so there's political pressure to improve the bart?
>>2065186dart doing the same thing because they dont listen to member city's concerns
>>2065233Have you never heard of San Francisco being a major tech and finance hub? If you look at ridership pre and post Covid the drop off has been significant, and it’s due to people in SF office doing a lot of remote work now. It’s pretty much single handedly the reason why the system has failed
>>2065251Well that and the fact that nobody wants to be around fent zombies, and kicking fent zombies off mass transit is fascist or something, so bart can't/won't remove undesirables (who don't pay fares), so desirables seek alternative transportation. You are sort of right that this is tech bros' fault, but that's because they helped push wholeness, not because they want to avoid its effects.
>>2065252why do americans think the only two options for public policy are to allow junkies to run wild or to just execute anyone who looks at a cop the wrong way and there's literally no way to actually have a professional police force that knows what they're doing and isn't motivated by psychopathic urges
>>2065252>wholeness*wokeness
>>2065253When we try to do the middle ground, the lugenpresse frames it as the second thing, so libtards vote for the first thing.
>>2065255handcuffing a man and shooting him in the back of the head while he's lying face down on the concrete isn't "the middle ground", freak
>>2065256We're making the mother of all omelettes here, Jack. Can't go crying about every broken egg.
>>2065252BART actually significantly upgraded its safety since covid. Increased police presence when before covid when the system was severely overpacked you rarely saw cops and the addicts were everywhere. Also within the last year they got new faregates at every station that make it somewhat harder to fare evade. But people still do it. My ideal for keeping the fent zombies out would be to get rid of station attendants completely and just have two police officers standing at the entrance of the station at all times. That would deter bums from fare evading, and even ones who try to slip through the officers standing by could arrest them. And without the crackheads, the cops won't need to be patrolling the system, because the crackheads and other fare evaders are the ones causing the problem
>>2065266>My ideal for keeping the fent zombies out would be to get rid of station attendants completely and just have two police officers standing at the entrance of the station at all times.in Montreal the "transit security" are real cops. idk all the lore but i've heard it's basically where fresh hires go to both get experience with the boring parts of policing (lots of paperwork and stops for dumb shit like people smoking indoors or doing graffiti) but also to weed out the tryhard superhero wannabes (since they will quit after a year of telling teenagers to stop writing on things) but also the at least somewhat sane ones have to see the worst of humanity day in day out not committing crimes and have to resist the urge to hassle them until they start some shitin fact one time i got a ticket from a normal ass normal cop in a pretty abnormal incident where i had two dudes draw guns on me on me but the ticket had the STM logo on it. I guess buddy was just out of normal tickets or something
>>2065309>where i had two dudes draw guns on me on meyou owe us a greentext if you're going to tease like that. were you running around the tunnels in a ninja suit or what.
>>2065310I was carrying home an air rifle from a friend's house after drinking too much to think to just disassemble it and carry it in a bag so some karen called the copsi wasnt even on transit, i was walking on the street
>>2065312all good stories start with "after drinking"
>>2065186Big shame if it happens, after all these years BART is still the only transit system in America that manages to look futuristic.
>>2065253>and there's literally no way to actually have a professional police force that knows what they're doing and isn't motivated by psychopathic urgesYou go deal with the career drug using criminals then Hope you like life in jail when one of them dies during an arrest
fuck bart it's just stinky homeless sleeping on the trains and loud coloreds begging for money
>>2067071You probably haven’t ridden it in forever. It’s much much better in that respect over the last few years with new faregates and increased police presence. BART has become much cleaner and safer since Covid than it was before, back when it was the Wild West.It’s really unfortunate that despite the big strides it has made in safety, cleanliness, and all the new train cars, that ridership has tanked because of remote work and has pretty much destroyed it
>Los Angeles is a highway car hell>San Francisco is a corporate ponzi hellIs the whole state just fucked?
>>2067070>when one of them dies during an arrestThere's a highly advanced technique that works quite well in advanced countries, and that is to avoid putting a bullet in the base of their skull at point blank range. I know it's quite a leap of logic for americans but trust me, this reduces mortality rate by about 100%The other thing is, american cops don't go to jail for anything, it's common for them to pick up teen runaways and gang rape them, or strangle people to death who are already fully restrained, just for fun. They even make special prizes called "Challenge Coins" to commemorate their atrocities. So I wouldn't worry about that one at all
>>2065186I bet if they looked at where the money was going on the administration side of things you could save the operations without sacrifice.
>>2067257Until you nuke LA, SF, the surrounding areas, and Dan Diego for good measure, yes it's fucked.
>>2067301Dan Diego sounds Japanese
>>2067262>this reduces mortality rates by about 100%lmao. If a cop has you in close quarters and wants to kill you, they won't use a gun. They might sodomize you with a baton or put you in a chokehold for the duration of a Pink Floyd track, but the gun is not coming out.
>>2067345Your virgin eyes aren't ready for this website, kid
>>2067301If you nuked San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and greater Los Angeles, the entire world would be better off. Imagine how much better society would be without all the tech companies ruining the planet and the fabric of society.
>>2069346https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG3uea-Hvy4>>2067257it is well known that the state of california causes cancer.
>>2067257you don't actually know anything about california cleetus
