BART is chronically underfunded and a chunk of its money is spent on expansions instead of maintenance and/or salaries for staff. Low pay for staff naturally le

BART is chronically underfunded and a chunk of its money is spent on expansions instead of maintenance and/or salaries for staff. Low pay for staff naturally leads to low-quality work and low payroll budget leads to lower headcounts (and higher workloads for individual staff). Really, BART has a lot in common with how PG&E executives are running things. The solution is to give it enough funding and ensure the money goes to the right place. We can't do that right now with a private power company and they aren't sending the money to the right place, but if set up correctly a regulator CAN do that. Whether they will is another question, but it probably won't be worse. Nobody is proposing handing PG&E over to BART. In the first place, with how much of BART's funding comes from customers it wouldn't be that different were it privatized.