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Posted by Jackson Park B Train on Fri Jul 2 12:18:40 2010, in response to Re: WhineMATA, posted by Dupont Circle Station on Fri Jul 2 11:16:34 2010. First, elected board members are no guarantee of rider friendly or rational policies. The BART board is elected--has a long habit of badly planned projects always way over budget. Currently they are working feverishly to arrange "funding swaps" to waste 1/2 billion on a 3 mile "amusement park ride" from their nearest station to the parking lot at Oakland Airport. The funding shenanigans are because FTA ruled they had failed to meet Title VI civil rights regs.Second, as to streetcars, striping the tracks as no autos with camera driven enforcement could make them work just fine. About "interservice rivalry" within WMATA, I have no direct evidence, but your points about coordination and line management are valid for any system. The funding conundrum is, in my view, a national crisis which needs Federal action to permanently fund operations on a riders carried basis. How to do this while the highway/oil/auto lobbies are still active is not clear to me, but the necessity is. |
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