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Now, I'll grant it's only very specific corridors, but the densest parts of California do have passable mass transit. The majority of Californians don't have ac
by xvedejas 6y ago
Now, I'll grant it's only very specific corridors, but the densest parts of California do have passable mass transit. The majority of Californians don't have access to this, but the most crowded parts do.
- twblalock 6y agoMass transit exists but it's really bad -- e.g. Muni and BART and Caltrain in the San Francisco area. Constant delays, mechanical failures, and overcrowding. Now that Coronavirus and social distancing are the new normal, I expect some of those transit systems to lose funding and perhaps even shut down. I'm a huge fan of public transit and I'd love to see good transit systems exist in California, but I have no hope that it will happen.
- JoeAltmaier 6y agoBART! I used it once just to see how it went. A cross between a cattle car and a shipping container. Unbearably noisy and dirty. Reminded me of the public transit in Gotham when Bruce Wayne returned.
- twblalock 6y agoI used to take Caltrain to work. The best way to find out about the frequent service outages and accidents was not from Caltrain, but from stranded passengers complaining on Twitter. Caltrain doesn't really communicate, their delay estimates are as reliable as the progress bar on Windows 3.1, and the stations are unstaffed. It's a total joke from top to bottom. I used to spend a lot of money on Uber to get home when Caltrain let me down.