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KQED NEWSROOM: Bay Area Public Transportation
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- čas přidán 22. 04. 2015
- Getting around the Bay Area can be difficult. Traffic is a mess and public transportation isn't always easy. KQED NEWSROOM's Scott Shafer and Thuy Vu talk to the leaders of BART, Caltrain, Muni and VTA about what is and isn't working with the Bay Area's biggest transit systems.
Guests:
• Grace Crunican, general manager of BART
• Ed Reiskin, director of transportation of San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency
• Jim Hartnett, general manager of San Mateo County Transit District
• Michael Hursh, chief operating officer of Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority
10:42 They WERE designed w Rapid Transit in mind. The cars(automobiles) came in and took up all the space and eventually got total priority.
I disagree with the spokesperson from Caltrain about a unified Bay Area transit district being a no-go. The current system has all these agencies fighting for dollars when funding comes along. A unified system would streamline this process, prioritizing funding on the most vital parts of the system as a whole.
jealousofmypuddin 100% Agreed!!! Thank you for pointing this out!!! You took the words right out of my mouth!!! A unified system will get rid of these squabbling losers and streamline the funding better!!!
More people in the Bay Area should push for this!!! Unified System is better and the Clipper Card is one small step in that direction!!!
UNIFY!!!!
Then you'll see public transportation in the Bay Area make a stronger attempt to connect and circle link the Bay Area together!!!
That is true, however as someone who lives in So Cal, an area where there really is only one major mass transit agency, and one commuter rail agency, there are a few benefits to having many agencies. Yes, they squabble and bicker, but they provide multi-modal service properly. Often, there are large geographical areas overlooked because of county politcs, or regional politics. I have seen many illogical patterns of ignoring or overly beefing up rapid transit construction lines because LACMTA is really the only organization with the power to build rapid transit lines. For example, South Bay LA had no rapid transit lines included in the county's Measure M sales tax proposal. It went to upgrading frequency of trains in nearby Torrence, or El Segundo but not them. Also, when things are run by one government, projects that make sense to individual communities are slowed. For example, a simple extension in Norwalk of literally three miles from the western terminus of the Metro Green Line to the Norwalk Metrolink Commutter Rail station, is on hold for about three decades, because of "funding priorities."
I get Bay Area politics isn't pretty, but I do encourage you all to be happy you do have many systems that move the Bay Area in the many ways it needs to move.
I would disagree. Although a unified system sounds great, what your suggesting is a system that would be more reliant on Gov/state control. Ask yourself this, has anything the government ever gets involved with ever worked as promised and within budget? The real solution would be with privately ran companies. Companies that run in order to make a profit and to compete. Competition drives improvement and growth. However private companies are fleeing California in droves. It’s unfortunate that the transit system everyone wants today actually used to be there prior to 1941. The key system and southern pacific ran electric trains all over the Bay Area.
The exact opposite is what happened in the metropolitan Washington DC area. When the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) was created to build the Washington Metro around the time construction began on bart, All of the privately owned public transit bus enterprises were acquired by WMATA resulting in the creation of a unified public transit agency serving the District of Columbia, two counties in Maryland, two counties and three cities in Virginia. As the Metrorail system was being built out, the counties and cities setup their own bus operations. Today those county and city bus operators complement Metrorail as well as the bus service provided by WMATA. The primary reason why county and city bus operations exist is because the formulas WMATA uses to determine if bus service is viable along a given path was not great enough to justify implement service. The one thing WMATA and county city transit providers did agree upon is the use of a unified fare media, The fare media used By WMATA (Metrobus and Metrorail) and the county city transit providers in the WMATA service area can also used on the transit system that serves metropolitan Baltimore area.
Suicide in public transit is a safety issue. Look at Shanghai and install ceiling to platform glass walls with sliding doors that open when the train arrives. Will also greatly enhance the experience to becoming luxurious and streamlined.
I live on the East Coast, but I did ride BART between SFO and Oakland. It's hard to draw conclusions from that experience, but the system seemed to be crowded.
Hmm... Home of the richest companies in the world but no money for the poor folks to get to work. No corruption there. Lovely.
At minute 19:20 Jim Hartnett said that after a giants game there are an additional 600k riders using Bart. Seriously? The stadium has a maximum capacity during baseball games of less than 60K. His estimated numbers are grossly miscalculated. Did no one question him?
60K at the stadium plus thousands of people that go out to bars/friends homes to watch the games. That being said, it's hard to imagine 600K additional riders.
Hey Thuy Vu!!! Ask better questions!!! Ask MUNI when are they going to build an underground for 19th AVE and Geary!!!??? Ask Caltrans why don't you have more trains running 3 or more per hour??? And when are you going to have WI-FI??? Don't gloss over the question! Ask the VTA and San Jose about are they preparing proper connecting ridership for when BART goes through downtown San Jose and to San Jose Airport??? The spokesmen are glossing over the issues and are beating around the bush!!!
Also you need to ask BART when are you going to create service that circles the Bay Area??? That was the original plan for BART!!!
yuubokumin415 3 years later no news trains. Stupid lady stupid city
And now five days into the news drought around there on the progress at correcting the cracked beams at the laughably glorified, shuttered $2¼ *billion* commuter b u s s t a t i o n !
"Good" news. VTA is cutting a lot of service, including a lot of light rail.
Walt Disney World 2:15
History is BART making…💡
The CalTrans stations are clean enough, just clean up the BART stations (especially in Oakland). Plus, BART is changing to a CTC [Communicative Train Control i believe] which means they can squeeze in more trains inside of their time schedule.
from a tourists point of view.Tidy up the stations,why is the escalator at Powell St. turned off in the early evening.
Brian Kettle because the drug addicts and homeless fall down and and hurt themselves
I grew up in San Jose and ride VTA to downtown San Jose and to Valley Fair and to Evergreen Valley College where I graduated in 2006 and the moved to Honolulu And the back to California, Turlock. The Turlock transit system is horrible compared to VTA. I wish I was back in SJ.
A guy once told me that government is inefficient and it shows right here.
I moved to SF into 1980. Muni always sucked and has never gotten any better and probably never will.
unbelievable, bart demanding 4-5 billion to replace an entire system that is servicible
Good point Claudia Maus! ;-)
California Pizza Kitchen ⭐️
You should hard-nose Google, Apple, and Twitter.
Don't let Zuckerberg off either.
Keep Fighting for Oil & Israel. Bugger the people of SF especially the Homeless. That's what the DC Vampires would say, not me.
Worst transit system. Hate it.