More from the stoopid front: why BART is stoopid
below is a cut and paste of an email response about this stupid need to turn BART parking lots into expensive commercial/residential developments at the total expense of the people who use BART, ACTUALLY USE BART as a means of getting around this pathetic excuse for a community we call the San Francisco Bay Area. After reading my posts you may ask, hey numbshull, if you hate it here so much, why do you live here. The answer quite frankly is that this was the furthest I could get away from Boston without actually leaving the continental United States. And the only reason I stay is because I got lucky living here and married the most wonderful woman in the world. that said and I hate it when people say "that said", see my response below:
Day before yesterday I had two auditions in SF.One on 1st and Mission( Embarcadero BART) and the second on Treat (16th BART). Aud #1 was at 10:10. Second one was anytime between 10 and 1 PM. Drove down to Del Norte BART. 9 am. Spent over 15 minutes scouring the lots to find a space to park.ZERO. had to park on Cutting at Key which has a four hour limit. With the day time schedule of BART and the walking to and fro from Emb. BART to 1st and Mission, Back to Emb BART to 16th and Mission and the walk from there to Treat and then back to 16th BART to EC Del Norte. This seemingly simple transit experience got me back to EC with no dilly dallying with 20 minutes to spare before being issued a parking ticket. Almost four hours!!!!! that's half a work day to do keep two very simple in and out appointments!!!!!!! When are the idiotic morons in charge of the system going to realize the system DOES NOT ENCOURAGE people to use public transit. In fact it does the exact opposite. AS I have said to the deaf ears for the 26 years I have lived here, public transit outside of San Francisco is a pathetic ridiculous joke!!!!!! Until the idiots here realize that it will only work when all the transit districts of which there are what 20 of them or something are under the same umbrella where I can get a local bus to Bart instead of having to drive, because the local buses add tremendous cost to the transit experience,and now in oh so modern 21st century, instead of expanding transbay buses A/C transit only operates them during "rush hours" as well as having no reliable schedule with drivers who drive safely instead of terrifying you and where you can feel comfortable with the hordes of adolescent monsters making nearly each and every ride an experience from hell itself. it will be completely stupid to pursue this moronic idea of transit villages. The TRUTH behind the Villages is this: flat property is of tremendous monetary value. Developers who care only about their predatory profit making at the expense of community just want to get in and out with their money, and the elected officials who get elected with their money have to comply in order to return the favor of their elected positions. The rest of us can go to hell. It does nothing to stem the tide of urban sprawl, because again it's the developers who are predating the old farmers and ranchers with visions of sugar plums in Palm Springs retirement homes. Preying on the American dream of if only I had a back yard pool and a place to set up my gas Webber my wife would love me and my kids would talk to me....
That's not how I see it, it's how it is. None of these idiots actually use public transit. The BART officials drive to work, and as you may have noticed there is parking provided for the BART station agents so they don't have to experience their own incompetence. Any one want to think about banning cars???? whoa! Now I must be crazy!!!! How about this novel idea: you wanna stop urban sprawl how about curbing population growth, by encouraging people to either have less kids or none at all!! Or maybe having foreign/ economic policies that provide a life worth living in their home countries where the tired and unwashed wont be so desperate to come here in the first place. Or distributing industry whether rust belt or high tech in other states besides California so again our very own unwashed and very tired wont be compelled to flee Mississippi or northern Indiana or what's left of poor tired horribly beaten to death Connecticut for the land of milk and honey.
Nah, forget it. I must be really off my meds!
I better stop now.....
Love
George
Day before yesterday I had two auditions in SF.One on 1st and Mission( Embarcadero BART) and the second on Treat (16th BART). Aud #1 was at 10:10. Second one was anytime between 10 and 1 PM. Drove down to Del Norte BART. 9 am. Spent over 15 minutes scouring the lots to find a space to park.ZERO. had to park on Cutting at Key which has a four hour limit. With the day time schedule of BART and the walking to and fro from Emb. BART to 1st and Mission, Back to Emb BART to 16th and Mission and the walk from there to Treat and then back to 16th BART to EC Del Norte. This seemingly simple transit experience got me back to EC with no dilly dallying with 20 minutes to spare before being issued a parking ticket. Almost four hours!!!!! that's half a work day to do keep two very simple in and out appointments!!!!!!! When are the idiotic morons in charge of the system going to realize the system DOES NOT ENCOURAGE people to use public transit. In fact it does the exact opposite. AS I have said to the deaf ears for the 26 years I have lived here, public transit outside of San Francisco is a pathetic ridiculous joke!!!!!! Until the idiots here realize that it will only work when all the transit districts of which there are what 20 of them or something are under the same umbrella where I can get a local bus to Bart instead of having to drive, because the local buses add tremendous cost to the transit experience,and now in oh so modern 21st century, instead of expanding transbay buses A/C transit only operates them during "rush hours" as well as having no reliable schedule with drivers who drive safely instead of terrifying you and where you can feel comfortable with the hordes of adolescent monsters making nearly each and every ride an experience from hell itself. it will be completely stupid to pursue this moronic idea of transit villages. The TRUTH behind the Villages is this: flat property is of tremendous monetary value. Developers who care only about their predatory profit making at the expense of community just want to get in and out with their money, and the elected officials who get elected with their money have to comply in order to return the favor of their elected positions. The rest of us can go to hell. It does nothing to stem the tide of urban sprawl, because again it's the developers who are predating the old farmers and ranchers with visions of sugar plums in Palm Springs retirement homes. Preying on the American dream of if only I had a back yard pool and a place to set up my gas Webber my wife would love me and my kids would talk to me....
That's not how I see it, it's how it is. None of these idiots actually use public transit. The BART officials drive to work, and as you may have noticed there is parking provided for the BART station agents so they don't have to experience their own incompetence. Any one want to think about banning cars???? whoa! Now I must be crazy!!!! How about this novel idea: you wanna stop urban sprawl how about curbing population growth, by encouraging people to either have less kids or none at all!! Or maybe having foreign/ economic policies that provide a life worth living in their home countries where the tired and unwashed wont be so desperate to come here in the first place. Or distributing industry whether rust belt or high tech in other states besides California so again our very own unwashed and very tired wont be compelled to flee Mississippi or northern Indiana or what's left of poor tired horribly beaten to death Connecticut for the land of milk and honey.
Nah, forget it. I must be really off my meds!
I better stop now.....
Love
George
posted by George McRae at 1:40 PM
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