Even back in the early seventies when they built BART, I knew something wasn’t quite right with the idea of the government pushing something that wasn’t really needed, and connected communities that really never wanted to be connected in the first place. The Bay Area Rapid Transit system was built and is maintained entirely on the backs of the California taxpayer, yet generously benefits financially a select few who got into key positions of ‘public servitude’ early on like a pyramid scheme. It also ushered in a forty year crime wave from the rougher parts of the Bay Area into the suburbs. Most people don’t make what a BART janitor makes, all fully taxpayer subsidized.
Melvin Udall’s description applies directly to government: no reason and no accountability.