Bart is so poorly run today I’m not sure I would support its expansion until something like that top three levels of management were all cleared out
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Do we have a model city in the US of a well run mass transit system that other cities should copy?
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Livermore is paying for BART taxes even though BART is refusing to go there!
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Same thing for the people in the Richmond and the Bayview. It's almost like not every transit line can go everywhere but we still all benefit by supporting it
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Can we please vote again? Those people are all dead or sold their winning lottery ticket (their house), and now we have to live with this.
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Perhaps this is hindsight bias? I don’t think they could have predicted the tech boom back in the 60’s and everyone owned a car back then so why bother investing in expansive public transit.
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A strong minority of people in the 60s foresaw that continually adding cars was unsustainable and fought highway expansions. Santa Clara County was much smaller than but already had a hugely booming semiconductor industry
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I think it was their Supervisors? I'm not sure it made it to a vote of the people
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I’m pretty sure had it been a ballot measure, voters would’ve voted it down. It’s 2019 and San Mateo Countians are still worried about “crime” (wink wink) coming down from SF. Look Prop 14 (1964) won at 60% in that era https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_14_(1964) …
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And if they hadn't left than Marin would have stayed in too :/
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