The same people who don't want apartments also don't want infrastructure. If you want the political support for transit to exist, you have to have people voting

The same people who don't want apartments also don't want infrastructure. If you want the political support for transit to exist, you have to have people voting who live in apartments, which means you need to build apartments. An underappreciated source of the bay area's problems is that its enormous immigrant population cannot vote for 10+ years after they arrive, so the people who didn't want it to change have all the political power.