shit on the sidewalks again, see if they want to go back to that

What public transportation? If you are not in NYC, Boston, DC, or Chicago there is basically no public transportation.

In an area of such incredible wealth, they first cut funding for the most needing it.

Sounds like the people of the Bay Area need to dunk a lot of Neoliberal politicians in the bay. They can join their worthless hero Milton Friedman out there.

Makes sense, its not like there's any money in the area. Sometimes it's just impossible to pay for things....................

Because they just can't resist more traffic? People commute from across the Bay and shit, this would be a disaster I think.

The chosen headline here and OP's summary are kinda counter productive and misleading. There are two ballot measures on the ballot to fix funding. The cuts will probably happen if they don't pass. But the way this post is written implies that the cuts will happen and there is nothing that can be done about it. Which is kinda dangerous during an election. Unsurprisingly the comments section mirrors the post.

stop fixing roads and divert the funds here

absolutely bonkers

sounds like a good way to make nobody use their transit

The area’s transit funding crisis was exacerbated by ridership that plunged at the beginning of the Covid pandemic and remains too low to fill the coffers of BART

knew it. COVID dropped ridership and it never fully recovered. the same thing happened where I am, they've been cutting bus and light rail lines and reducing schedules for the last few years due to low ridership. I'm part of it, pre-covid I used light rail often, but now I work remote and moved as well and hardly ride public transit now.

Shame it’s sales tax but people should pass it.

Ideally would prefer cap gains tax at the state level get used towards maintaining public transit like this.

It's interesting to see the implications of such drastic cuts to public transit in San Francisco. While I understand budget constraints, I'm concerned about how this may disproportionately affect lower-income communities who rely on these services. Have you thought about how other cities might adapt their models instead? street view

A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation.

Financial obesity is neurotoxic, an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but trillionaires should be forced to transition into billionaires, and billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

Can we gut the billionaires instead?

"Disabled and low-income residents’ mobility is on the line."

And that's what is wrong with Public Transportation in the US. No, not that disabled and low-income residnets can and do use it. That it is first of all seen as such, sold as such and in parts almost exclusively by those groups and only because they really have to in many cases.

We can fix this if public transit users start gutting Billionaire capitalists.

Voters in the San Francisco Bay Area are split on a measure to rescue local transit. Disabled and low-income residents’ mobility is on the line.

Be thankful for two hours in crushing, soul destroying traffic, Peons! It's making your Job Creators more successful! They're just better than you.

Here's the deal. Public transit in Bay Area got slammed hard during COVID and ran huge deficits. Raising fares is a regressive tax on people who can least afford it. But having good transit means fewer cars in traffic-logged roads. Plus, easy ways to get to popular venues like sports stadiums and San Francisco. It benefits everyone directly and indirectly.

A lot of people can't afford to live in city cores like SF, Oakland, and San Jose. So public transit is the only way they can get to work from affordable, outlying suburbs. Local transport agencies have done a good job scaring the crap out of people, by announcing which stops and lines will have to be shut down if this proposition doesn't pass. Entire cities will turn into unreachable islands if they shut down those lines.

Given all this, any sensible person would support this. But there are absolute, self-centered idiots out there who are opposed, because it will raise muh taxes.

Can't believe this is even questionably close. If it doesn't pass, I will not feel sorry one bit for those suburban voters crying that their property values just tanked and their commutes doubled.

Also, this has nothing to do with billionaires. Really wish MJ wouldn't resort to this clickbaity shit.

SF transit already been scaled back in some areas. they will word in it way to make seem like you support the funding , but actually its defunding it.

plus public transport is lacking for tech biotech campuses in the bayarea to begin with, you are expected to commute excessively by car only limiting peoples options for jobs. its usually horrendous in the morning if you trying to get to any of the bridges, like bay bridges.

When Judge Doom tried this shit he got run over with a steamroller and washed away with Dip.

Laughing. My. Fucking. Ass. Off.

Yeah, I’ve been hearing about this for a while now.

I grew up in the Bay Area. I honestly have no interest in going back there permanently, and I don’t see myself changing my mind:

• transit is awful
• traffic is awful
• cost of living is awful
• real estate prices are awful
• modern tech culture in Silicon Valley is, imo, absolutely cancerous these days. SO MUCH KOOL AID DRINKING.
• annual fires because PG&E is categorically fucking useless and doesn’t maintain anything
• not enough seasons (I like actually having 4 seasons of weather)

Boston is where it’s at, imo.

Edit: forgot a big one - the government, while very reliably Democratic, is beset by the fact that a shitload of the state politicians are MASSIVE corporatists. The tropes about CA being a “liberal bastion” (in American parlance - as opposed to conservative) are hugely overstated these days.

Time for The Who framed Roger rabbit reboot, they’re trying to kill the red car all over again.