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awesome. so commuting from the east bay to palo alto or SF will take longer than travel to LA. instead of extending BART around the bay, full circle and acros
by pinaceae 12y ago
awesome.
so commuting from the east bay to palo alto or SF will take longer than travel to LA.
instead of extending BART around the bay, full circle and across in more places, let's invest billions in hyperloop.
- acomjean 12y agoI have the same sentiment, but for Boston. As someone who can sometimes walk the 3 miles to work faster than public transit (or private bus) can take me on a bad commuting day, its frustrating. Like highway off ramps built communities, communities will spring up around train station stops.
- erispoe 12y agoThere is very little chance that BART would be faster than Caltrain on the Peninsula. Caltrain has a good right of way that could host 4 tracks. I would focus on Caltrain here, not BART.
- ianbicking 12y agoThere's nothing exclusive about the two. Good systems should be self-justifying. But if you want decent travel times the current BART can't provide them. You'd need something like Personal Rapid Transit to get good trip times at the intra-urban scale. But the same argument you are making here - envy of something that doesn't even exist - is why we keep getting the same transit systems that are hard to grow because they don't provide enough benefit to enough people.