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Whenever you can land at an airport and take a train (BART) into the heart of the City in under 30 minutes you've got a subway system. BART could always be bett
by jusben1369 13y ago
Whenever you can land at an airport and take a train (BART) into the heart of the City in under 30 minutes you've got a subway system. BART could always be better (loop the Bay or go across the Golden Gate) but it is a real Subway system.
- potatolicious 13y agoBART is more commuter rail than metro (what is usually meant by "subway"). It provides transport from other cities into the city (SF), but provides little coverage in the city itself. For people living in very specific parts of the city (see: the Mission) the lack of a real metro has made BART into a pseudo-subway, but at the end of the day it's still commuter rail (the seating arrangements in a BART car is telling as to its intended purpose). San Francisco doesn't really have a metro system - it has streetcars that don't have exclusive right of way through the majority of their run.
- jusben1369 13y agoThat's a good point.
- melling 13y agoNo one said that it wasn't real. There's 100 miles of track. I said that it wasn't extensive enough. It doesn't sufficiently meet the needs of the people who live in the area. Getting to/from the airport is only one use case. If you want to remove cars from the road and have people live in a larger area, mass transit needs to accomodate them.