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I had to sell my house in Berkeley because my commute to San Francisco was eating up 3 hours every day - the time I allocated to side projects. Our politicians
by justinzollars 10y ago
I had to sell my house in Berkeley because my commute to San Francisco was eating up 3 hours every day - the time I allocated to side projects.
Our politicians have given up, no one even talks about making our transit system better. Total losers.
(12 miles)
- HillaryBriss 10y agoCalifornia's state and local governments are probably unable to solve these problems. The legal structure, rather than supporting a solution, seems to actually make these problems quite likely. I suspect that, in a democracy which places an emphasis on freedom of career choice, free rights of personal movement (from pretty much anywhere to pretty much anywhere else), essentially unregulated road and highway access, the high cost of infrastructure creation and maintenance, the high cost of government workers, combined with relatively strong individual property rights -- gridlock and skyrocketing housing costs are truly unavoidable. > “If the economy tanks, then we won’t create jobs the way we used to, but nobody wants the economy to tank,” Hancock said. “We don’t really have a fix for this problem right now..."
- Tempest1981 10y agoWe should assign the problem to engineers, instead of politicians. Are there any such efforts? Or have they given up just because of the costs?
- justinzollars 10y agoExactly. This is exactly the problem. In the 50's congress was made up of Engineers today its made up of attorneys.
- punctilio 10y agoSource for "In the 50's congress was made up of Engineers"?
- muzz 10y agoTransbay bus is around 45 minutes to SF and BART is not much longer, so you must be going to somewhere other than downtown
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- encoderer 10y agoHills? My commute from Berkeley via AcTransit to Soma is 45 mins each way.