Who wants to visit a downtown station with a hundred homeless sitting along the walls and the elevators turned off, due to those homeless using them as toilets?
That, coupled with some very loud sections when beginning to go into under water tunnels, is likely just the start of issues.
The lefties will just turn it over to the homeless in less than 3 years....
The urban rats are tired of being urban rats.
Its the USA in a microcosm - particularly, urban/blue/leftist.
Without massive Fed.gov debt, and Federal Reserve money printing and QE to buy that debt, America's progressives would have died off years ago
GREAT-—SHOVE people OUT of their vehicles & then shut down MASS TRANSIT.
Could it be rising crime ?
Maybe these jerks should consider: Crime and filth on the BART train, on your way into crime and filth in San Francisco.
Ridership and revenues are way down in almost all urban transportation systems in Democrat run areas Fare beating and the fact that decent,rational people prefer to utilize the new technologies, work from home and avoid going to crime ridden cities. These transportation systems have all been losing huge amounts of money and have been subsidized by Biden bucks approved by the Democrat controlled Congress. If a Republican House refuses to fund these money losers, things will really get interesting.
Does BART use electric trains? I have heard that is a great way to face the future.
I’ve used public transportation in the Bay area.
BART, Buses, and Shuttles. And of course POV, rental car, or walking.
I would not ride a bike in the bay area.
BART SUX!
It is just a very high priced jobs program for Black people.
Much like Amtrak.
BART was getting very crappy when I used to ride it into the City from Walnut Creek every day fifteen years ago - I can only imagine how much worse it is today. There seems to be almost no way for the system to make money if the nearly insatiable commuter demand of two decades ago is becoming a thing of the past. It will just be another permanent government giveaway like Phoenix light rail - a rolling homeless shelter offering nice contractor kickbacks to Democrat politicians.
Whatever.
They were touting how ridership had increased to some 70% prepandemic just 6 months ago and I called “BS!”
Go to any BART parking lot and they are largely, mostly or completely empty....
Further, ain’t no one going to downtown San Francisco, which only has a 31% daily occupancy rate and of the people I know who are still going: They use to ride BART but, it is too dangerous and the routes are inconvenient as they are only in the office part of the day.
Like NYC subway, why would I want to get on mass transit when there are punks riding who could rob or kill me??
In Seattle the felt it wasn’t equitable to make people pay. So they stopped enforcing this....now most ride for free and they are broke too.
Just park them and house the homeless in them ... solves two problems at once. All the SF’s can just drive their EVs to work and play.
That’s the way to do it...cut service and raise fares!
It’s how socialists run a railroad, or anything else.
banning gas cars should help