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One of the big challenges in increasing spending for public transit is homelessness. For example, this 2013 article describes how the VTA 22 El Camino route be
by cbhl 10y ago
One of the big challenges in increasing spending for public transit is homelessness.
For example, this 2013 article describes how the VTA 22 El Camino route becomes completely full of homeless people during the overnight hours: http://www.mercurynews.com/2013/10/31/homeless-turn-overnight-bus-route-into-hotel-22/ http://www.mercurynews.com/2013/10/31/homeless-turn-overnigh...
- bdcravens 10y agoIf the concern is commuter traffic, then lines that only run during commuter hours makes this concern moot.
- closeparen 10y agoHaving decent commuter hour service but no mobility for evenings and weekends is a common public transit system failure mode. It hurts a lot more when you come for people's parking spaces if they still need cars for everything except commuting.
- honkhonkpants 10y agoThe simple solution is to give the homeless homes.
- scelerat 10y agoNot sure why you're getting downvoted. This has been proven in several instances to be more cost effective than the "system" (such as it is) San Francisco and much of the US has in place. e.g. Utah tried this and it seems to work on many levels: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/22/home-free http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/22/home-free
- eloisant 10y agoEven without creating new lines, simply increasing the frequency of the Caltrain would make a big difference.
- sampo 10y ago> One of the big challenges in increasing spending for public transit is homelessness. San Francisco might be the only place in the world where that is a big challenge in public transport. (I am not saying that really isn't a problem in SF, but for whatever reasons, the problem doesn't exist elsewhere.)