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
