Opinion: Stop tormenting taxpayers with toxic transit systems
. The proposal is being pushed by Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat from San Francisco, who said that without the state cash, BART and other big-city transit systems will have to make drastic service cuts.
It is indisputable that California’s major transit systems are in trouble, but among the several reasons for that trouble, only the pandemic was beyond the control of politicians. No one disputes the impact that COVID-19 had as millions of Californians were told to stay at home. But even here one must wonder whether California’s chosen pandemic response contributed to the severe economic blow. The economic damage from the pandemic was less severe in other states which remained more open.
Many, if not most, of the problems facing transit systems have nothing to do with pandemics or changing work habits but are matters which can be addressed with better management. For example, riders need assurance that if they come to rely on transit, they are not subject to the threat of work stoppages or strikes. President Biden had to bend over backward to avoid a rail strike in 2022. But labor issues can bring a transit system to a halt, as happened to BART in 2013.
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