Ning Wang

@ResistanceSean @aakashgupta @Needle_of_Arya What do you mean by “less accessible”?

@aakashgupta @Needle_of_Arya The fact that’s you are celebrating making public transportation less accessible is wild.

BART spent $90 million on new fare gates. They're recovering about $10 million a year in fares. That's a 9-year payback on paper. The actual return hit in six months. Embarcadero station went from 112 hours of corrective maintenance in the six months before installation to 2 hours after. Daly City saved 109. Balboa Park saved 75. Across the system, 961 hours of cleanup work disappeared. Corrective maintenance is the term BART uses for graffiti, heavy soiling, vandalism, the damage that needs a crew not a janitor. At several stations it dropped to zero. Crime fell 41% year over year. Riders who reported seeing fare evasion on their trip dropped from 22% to 10%. Citations issued by BART police went from 2,200 in January to under 1,000 in July, because there was nothing to cite. The gates were a filtering project disguised as a revenue project. Old BART gates were waist-high orange fins designed in the 1970s. You could hop them in under a second. That made the station effectively a public space, and the rider mix reflected that. The new gates are 72 inches of polycarbonate with 3D sensors that detect tailgating. You either pay or you don't enter. Once you don't enter, you also don't smoke on the platform, sleep in the elevator, or harass other riders. BART tried hiring more police for years. Blitz operations at high-traffic stations. Increased patrols. Dedicated transit cops. None of it moved the numbers the way six feet of polycarbonate did. The $10 million in recovered fares is the smallest line in the return. Fare revenue used to cover 70% of BART operations. After the pandemic it collapsed to 22%. The gates won't fix that gap directly. They fix the precondition for fixing it: a system that office workers, families, and tourists are willing to use again. Ridership growth at stations with new gates outpaced ungated ones before the rollout finished. A $400 million annual deficit is heading to voters in November as a sales tax measure. Voters don't approve sales taxes for transit agencies they don't feel safe in. The $90 million on gates is buying BART the right to ask the public for more money. That's the real return on six feet of polycarbonate.

Another year

Bee swarming

@splendiferouspp @SFBARTalert The message I got from Bart worker is no. He said there is a bus from 19th to SF.

@SFBARTalert Wait your posts are confusing, can we get from the East Bay to SF or not??

There is no Green Line service. SF bound riders can take an Orange/Richmond train and transfer to a Blue/Daly City train. East Bay bound riders take a Blue/Dublin train and transfer to an Orange/Berryessa train.

Fun time!

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Where am I?

Not sure if there will be next year

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California income tax increased this year! Where the fk does all the money go?

@HighyieldHarry Mouse trap?

If you looked at this photo, with zero context, what would you think this is?

@BevHarrisWrites @BehizyTweets A Car is an investment? How?

@BehizyTweets I always wondered why interest on home mortgages was deductible but not car payments. Both are major investments and the car is probably even more necessary than owning a home.

BREAKING: Trump just announced that he will make interest payments on car loans FULLY tax deductible for all Americans "This will stimulate massive domestic auto production and make car ownership dramatically more affordable for millions and millions of working American families." It doesn't seem like Trump will ever run out of good policies anytime soon.

And here it is!

Waiting for my first vote!

@JDVance Did Trump win or loss in 2000?

"You've got a tough job here. You've got to pretend that Donald Trump didn't deliver rising take home pay, which of course he did. You've got to pretend that Donald Trump didn't deliver lower inflation, which of course he did. And then you've got to defend Kamala Harris's atrocious economic record, which has made gas, groceries, and housing unaffordable for American citizens." - Senator JD Vance