Infrastructure may not be sexy, but you tend to notice when it crumbles around you. BART has been having all kinds of problems lately, and its twitter account manager isn’t pulling any punches.
@tquad64 Planners in 1996 had no way of predicting the tech boom – track redundancy, new tunnels & transbay tubes are decades-long projects.
— BART (@SFBART) March 17, 2016
@jalrobinson At the end of the day, we're just trying to illustrate the importance of public transit to the Bay Area – and America.
— BART (@SFBART) March 17, 2016
@cliberti We have 3 hours a night to do maintenance on a system built to serve 100k per week that now serves 430k per day. #ThisIsOurReality
— BART (@SFBART) March 17, 2016
We want semi-decent infrastructure without all the boring planning and funding that requires. Anyone who’s ridden a fixed rail system anywhere outside the U.S. has to suppress the shame of realizing your own country’s efforts at transportation are like a child’s haphazard train set. Do we care enough to fix it?
Source: San Francisco’s transit system stopped being polite and got real about complaints on Twitter