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Re:Approaching Peak Housing Dysfunction in California by inferiorhuman on Thursday July 25, 2019 @05:04PM (#20529684)
The cities of the Peninsula voted against getting a BART subway line decades ago, leaving them in the car-dependent, flat suburbs of the 60s

BART is a basket case of incompetence on its own. SF residents were largely willing to support an infill station at 30th and Mission, but BART stuck its thumbs up its ass and eventually built a half-billion dollar cable car to the Oakland airport (ripping up recent renovations to the street along the way).

San Mateo residents bought into BART in the 90s, but as they've learned public transit (BART especially) is a cost not profit center so the regional (SamTrans) service got gutted to fund BART (whose ridership numbers consistently lag predictions).

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Re:Approaching Peak Housing Dysfunction in California by DrScump on Friday July 26, 2019 @02:41AM (#20532859) 

  a half-billion dollar cable car to the Oakland airport
... which was suspended mid-construction for several years.

The empty trestles over Hegenberger were reminiscent of the "Freeway to Nowhere" (the 280/680/101 interchange in San Jose).

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