This is extremely reductive and defensive. There are things that the private sector has relative advantages at and things that the public sector has advantages at.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @AustenAllred
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@AlanaSemuels’ story about Elon building tunnels beneath the homes of disproportionately black and Latino homeowners in LA without their awareness. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/11/los-angeles-elon-musk-tunnels-under-neighborhood/575725/ …1 reply 0 retweets 17 likes -
What if your life savings is in your house and this affects the foundation, for example? What recourse is there for that?
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @AlanaSemuels
I mean that’s a totally different issue, isn’t it? That’s not “SV vs public infrastructure” but “here are specific problems with tunneling.”
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Replying to @Austen @AustenAllred and
I disagree with Kim’s example. BART is a perfect example of govt sanctioned transit that is built in discrimantory fashion. The noise pollution in west Oakland bart is very real.
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Replying to @cruzandorio @AustenAllred and
BART funding was approved in 1962. The Civil Rights Act was passsed in 1964. Government wasn’t in alignment with civil rights goals until after BART was already designed. (The Oakland line was begun in 1966.)
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Replying to @mariachong @cruzandorio and
I don’t know how you avoid BART going through west Oakland - it’s the closest point to San Francisco from the east bay. The solution is probably more to fix BART so it doesn’t sound like a steel factory being hit by an atomic bomb when it drives by than to route around Oakland
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Replying to @Austen @AustenAllred and
No the discrimination comes from some parts of bart being above ground while others being below
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Berkeley residents voted to tax themselves to fund BART being underground rather than overground. That's why the train dips underground right at the Oakland-Berkeley border and re-emerges in Albany.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @cruzandorio and
Ah that I didn’t know, ya that’s different
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Replying to @Austen @AustenAllred and
One thing worth noting: Much of the BART design was terrible (custom gauge?!!) but almost everything about the Boring Co designs is equally terrible if not worse. There is no monopoly on bad transit planning
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