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counterpoint: buses have greater reach and are potentially cheaper to add and operate than BART trains on the margin. If the primary transbay tube goes down in
by jakelarkin 9y ago
counterpoint: buses have greater reach and are potentially cheaper to add and operate than BART trains on the margin. If the primary transbay tube goes down in a quake we'll benefit from the diversification.
- jwilliams 9y agobuses have greater reach and are potentially cheaper I know you're counterpointing here, but really it nets out the same. Connecting transport increases it's potential. It baffles me that SF chooses not to integrate Bus, BART and Caltrain.
- dragonwriter 9y ago> It baffles me that SF chooses not to integrate Bus, BART and Caltrain. SF does not choose that. In fact SF has long chosen to integrate bus, Muni rail, and BART, and more recently also Caltrain, though getting the Caltrain part done has been hampered by a number of problems, including the cost overruns of Transbay Transit Center’s first phase, which have eaten up the money for the second phase.
- pmiller2 9y agoHow can you even say that with a straight face? None of {Muni bus, Muni rail, BART, Cal Train, AC Transit} coordinate transfers with each other. Unless you have that, you can't say the systems are "integrated" by any means. Edit: by "don't coordinate," I mean there are no timed transfers between systems.
- jwilliams 9y agoSuspect we have a different experience -- and pretty different expectations in terms to integration.