Buuntu

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   by Buuntu 1y ago

   I meant like as an individual do you have a sense? $320M in sales tax is not really very much. Because people are often upset we spend too much on transit but also upset that our transit isn't as good as, say, the Tube. Can't real
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   by Buuntu 1y ago

   Do you have a sense of how much you're paying in taxes that is being mismanaged by BART? I think it's far less than you realize.
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   by Buuntu 1y ago

   BART is not a typical metro system in that it serves a lot of suburbs that have very little population density, and was mainly built as a commuter service to get people to downtown SF. So it was never going to have the kind of ridership the
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   by Buuntu 1y ago

   Yeah this is basically the private market filling in for our lack of transit down south. Most every other major city doesn't have this, you just take the metro to work like a normal person.
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   by Buuntu 1y ago

   That is mostly a zoning issue, have you seen the density around Tube stations? Compare that to the density around half of the BART stations which are big parking lots surrounded by single family houses. Of course it's cheaper to run a
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   by Buuntu 1y ago

   Everyone here blaming BART and bureaucracy for being inefficient when in reality it's starved for funding due to our own voting (and zoning preventing housing/badly needed ridership near transit stops). Yes it's expensive to
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