My wife and I flew to Oakland once for a day trip to San Francisco. We figured we would take Bart. We thought it would be a fun adventure. The bus from the airport took us to the bart station and we were horrified. It was like a scene out of I am Legend and Mad Max rolled into one place. There were a lot of people there but I felt naked without a side arm. We never got on Bart but took another bus back to the Airport and flew home. And these folks are only making it worse.
Oakland needs to be nuked and rebuilt, like they did to Hiroshima.
BTW, I lived in Vallejo back in the mid-60’s. Oakland was nowhere near the cesspool then that it is now.
Oakland was once the California “city of broad shoulders.”
Pity what it has become.
I think their goal is to become the Detroit of the west coast.