Feds award BART part of $1.2 billion grant to ease crowding and buy 300 new trains
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sfexaminer.comPosted Jun 20, 2019, 9:47 PM UTC
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sfexaminer.comToday was a crowded evening commute. I had to let multiple trains pass before one had enough space to board. We need expanded capacity ASAP
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If you’re going through the tube, there’s nothing that can be done for increasing capacity, except to modernize the entire signaling and control system, afaik. They’re already sending the sins into the tunnel as often as is safe.
Of course, the new style cars help a bit, by cramming more people on the same number of cars, but those are always jam packed now too.
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They could send cars that originate at Powell Street. Sometimes they have trains heading to 24th street and then turn around to pick people up.
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Cool, how much of this will be syphoned down the sinkhole of BART directors and admins?
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I smell a big bonus for mgmt
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This is great news for everyone in the Bay Area!
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I think it means MORE DELAYS
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Great. Where’s my new train w 3x as many seats?!? Why is this taking all day???
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They presume everyone wants to stand.
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i hope some of this is used for security
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If they do it will only line some pockets. Then they say there out of funds.
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hell fucking no give me my tax dollars back you fucking crooks.
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The federal budget is about $4.4 trillion. So this $1.2 billion (if it was dispensed all in one year) would make up about 0.027% of the federal budget.
The average federal tax liability is $9118. So if you paid average taxes, your contribution to this project is about $2.48.
Maybe BART could give you a free weekend fare card and call it square?
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That’s actually higher per capita than I would have expected. Still a better use of tax dollars than a lot that gets spent.
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Lol Barack Obama bailed out banks that bankrupt and took everything from American citizens in an act of corporate socialism I dint expect you to understand
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TARP was passed by Bush.
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Without BART traffic would be even worse. The Bay Area needs BART and it needs more capacity through more train cars.
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At this point, more cars doesn’t do anything to fix capacity unless they add new lines. As I pointed out in another comment, during peak times, the tube is already sending as many trains as they can through it (until the spend the money to update the signaling and control system). New cars have a higher capacity each, but those are already packed, and it’s a stopgap.
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BART will be getting a new train control system so 28 trains per hour will go through the tube. That's up from 23.
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Yeah, eventually. Until then, more cars doesn’t help.
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Yes, I agree, however; more trains mean more delays, more track problems etc... They can't handle the trains they have. That being said, I hope the "New" trains are designed better than the last " New" train design.
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Their trains are old and need replacing. That's why they break down.
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So far the new ones have been less reliable than the old ones unfortunately.
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One of the new cars failed in the tunnel under Oakland this morning and had to be evacuated.
When's the last time one of the old trains had to be evacuated?
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There revenue is astronomical do the math your self commuters per day to average cost. That being San Francisco for the majority. They have cash flow they are money hungry ass hats.
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Their revenue may be high, but so are their operating expenses.
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Their budgets with revenue and expenses are online and I've seen them before.
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Yep.
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Are you serious?
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Coming 2046
No doubt.