Bay Area Rapid Transit

The thing.

So the Bay Area right now faces a traffic nightmare as we're on the brink of losing more than half of our BART service and a significant amount of Muni, Caltrain, AC Transit, County Connection and Paratransit service, shuttles for people with disabilities.

Tri-Delta Transit has already been making cuts and regional transit measure will stop that disaster.

People throughout the Bay Area take over 1 million transit trips each and every day.

And that is not what we have today.

It is what the Bay Area deserves for the $6 billion a year we pay for public transit.

Up in Vancouver, they have a SkyTrain that carries three times the volume of BART.

It's been automated for 40 years.

How exciting is this? It's our first big live broadcast in the Bay Area at Johnny Foley's Irish Pub from noon to three in San Francisco's Union Square.

You can get there by Muni and BART.

You can get there by ferry and Waymo.

You can even try driving.

Dear gods, the United States is doomed.

It opened as the seventh DMU in the United States and is operated by the Bay Area Rapid Transit District, or, well, BART.

It is 15 kilometers long and has three stations, one of them is not accessible from the outside world, and then it gets an unexpectedly astonishing 1,430,000 riders a year, or just short of 5,000 a day.

which is something that boggles my mind a little bit.

How many bars in the caster has Connie Chan been to lately? That's a good question.

Now, he says Washington needs to step in to keep systems like Muni and BART running and improve servants.

Yeah, remember a couple of years ago when Wiener held a funeral for public transit because BART blew their budget? Oh, yes.

Of all the political funerals, well, that's not true.

That's not my favorite.

It is, but it's not perfect as far as there's no parking.

But you can take BART, which everybody uses out there.

Is that the trolley? Yeah.

Well, no, it's not the trolley.

What's BART?

BART is a transit system under the water from East Bay to – from Berkeley and Oakland to Walnut Creek and Lafayette underneath and lets you out in a couple locations in San Francisco and real close to the ballpark.

So it's easy to get to.

Yeah, because I was coming from Sacramento, and I stop on Walnut Creek at my sister's house, and we go over there.

We do have a commuter alert now.

If you are heading out the door and plan on taking mass transit, BART is having major service issues.

There is a limited blue line service is running between Dublin, Pleasanton and Montgomery Street Station, as well as limited red line service running between Richmond and Montgomery Street Station and limited green line service running between Berryessa and MacArthur Station.

So a lot going on here.

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Back to our commuter alert this morning.

BART continuing to have major service delays impacting your morning commute.

Limited blue line services running between Dublin, Pleasanton, and Montgomery Street Station, as well as limited red line service running between Richmond and Montgomery Street Station, and limited green line services running between Berryessa and MacArthur Station.

I mean, everyone knows what a mess high-speed rail is, but we have our local messed up capital projects up here.

For example, they want to spend $12.7 billion to add six miles to BART to run it through San Jose.

A lot of that would be parallel to Caltrain, which already serve San Jose.

So you got to wonder like, what else are they wasting money on if we have projects like that?

It's always, give us everything we're asking for, or else the sky is going to fall, and therefore you really don't have a choice.

Yeah, exactly.

I mean, for example, BART is threatening to close 15 stations.

The cost of operating a station is incredibly low.

Why are you saying yes, just because it's

public transit? Yes, dude, we need to save BART and Muni and all these transit authorities.

I guess part of me was also thinking, like, you know, the reason why these transit authorities are failing is because our cities have absolutely failed them.

Yes.