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by dntrkv 1466 days ago
Why don’t you think that extension should be built?
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downtown SJ is _already served_ by the transfer to VTA at milpitas (which itself probably should not have been built).

extending BART is subsidizing suburban sprawl with transit dollars that are urgently needed in the urban core. it's an s-bahn, and we've got more than enough s-bahn in the bay area. what we need is a proper u-bahn.

SJ is a glorified suburb with delusions of grandeur, whose politicians consistently sabotage regional and statewide transit projects. I am of the spiteful perspective that that alone should exclude SJ from receiving big transit bucks, but even from the more level headed perspective the density simply does not justify it.

why on earth would you trust an organization that built and operates a light rail system that is so poorly designed and operated that it is amongst the least ridden and most subsidized systems in the entire country? in what is supposedly the heart of silicon valley.

san jose is a bad joke, and if you live there I am sorry for you.