[Seenso]

> The transit system is unreliable, slow and has low coverage. The only way to fix that is more dedicated Point-to-Point (the orange line)/more rapid lines + higher light rail coverage.

And the fix will have to be done in a very forward thinking way without the pre-existing usage to easily justify it. If buses or mass transit in general have a bad reputation, it's going to take a long period of sustained good & convenient service for people to start to change their attitudes and habits.

> Most people I know would rather ride the train.

One of the nice things about trains is that they're more regular and predictable than many other forms of mass transit. The large, fixed infrastructure investment discourages too much disruptive change once it's built.

[twblalock]

> One of the nice things about trains is that they're more regular and predictable than many other forms of mass transit. The large, fixed infrastructure investment discourages too much disruptive change once it's built.

Plus they don't get stuck in car traffic like buses do.

[bluGill]

There is no reason any of those objections need to be true. They typically are, but you can make a train even worse than a bus.

[erik_seaberg]

Caltrain has a lot of trouble because people are constantly driving or walking onto the tracks. BART is either subway or elevated or fenced off between stations.