Once again, thankful I had the option to use transit, but it seems unideal for a 76 min trip to have 20 minutes of unnanounced delays!
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So it took me an hour and 16 minutes to get from the Bart platform at SFO to my transit stop of choice near my apartment. When I arrived at the Bart platform, it said the next yellow line train was in 3 minutes, and though it arrived on time, it didn't actually leave for another 14 minutes. When. I arrived at the T platform, it said the next train was in 14 minutes, but it didn't arrive until 20 minutes. Neither platform announced any delays.
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@signaltap I appreciate that you took public transit, I do as well but I definitely know it cost me every time I do it. I hope I am around long enough to see a fully transit forward local government, and regional government. We need to do so much better.
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@lmc @signaltap One thing that people don't generally appreciate about bikes is that travel times are extremely consistent. The reason is that bikes are immune to car congestion.
Not everyone can bike, you say? Yes. But imagine if transit was also immune to car congestion. Bikes are the existence proof of what happens.
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@signaltap This isn't Europe. All Bay Area transit systems will either be late, or make you wait 5-15 minites between the time they arrive and the time when leave. All the marketing $$ to promote mass transit, could instead fund more vehicles moving through each system much more quickly. If SF transit were like NYC or Brussels, that'd adverise itself.
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@ninavizz I'll say, I have very reliable experiences with buses in San Francisco. We do have larger issues to fix, but I do think the airport bart station and general t line are specific low points of our transit network, given their prominent status/infrastructure costs
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@signaltap Both took decades of planning and ballot-approved tax measures to get built, I immediately see as the reasons "why."
Almost every major project in California that needs special tax funding to get built, needs to go on ballots for the general population to vote on in election cycles.
In the early 1990s when I moved to SF, the T line was just being started. 3rd st was a corridor of abandoned shipyards. No UCSF. It took until the 2010s, to complete. Same, w/ the Airport extension.
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@ninavizz @signaltap looking at the budget, if they cut their entire marketing, communications and outreach team they could increase their transit operations budget by about 1%. This would not include building anything, buying any new equipment, etc. And then I'm guessing I won't hear about Muni service disruptions in advance
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