Star Simpson

SF progress in the last 3 years — there is broad public awareness of the housing crisis, bike lines are increasingly well-demarcated (and I saw my first bicycle-dedicated traffic light recently!) Next I'd like us to talk about fareless public transit.

It's probably outside of consideration in the current Overton window, but as long as tech companies are subsidizing public transit for their own employees as a standard perq, it's worth discussing what it would take to support that for everyone, and accompanying economic benefit.

The careful budgeting demands of managing bay area transit for price-sensitive travelers, the memorization of complex transit system types and schedules and their interconnections are a poverty tax. We could go a long way just simplifying the fare schedules.

Because Bay Area transit endpoints are often awkwardly distant from each other in on-foot terms.. one point of view I hold where I feel expected to believe otherwise, is that hoverboards (and since their peak, scooters, ebikes etc.) are actually good.