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Public Transportation doesn't reduce traffic congestion, it basically relies on it.

This county just spent $600M to increase car capacity along the 101 corridor. There are several intersections and grade separation projects in the pipeline that will cost billions of dollars more in car infrastructure. But more car capacity and faster commutes lure people away from public transportation. So of course ridership is low until that capacity is filled up again. If the County Board of Supervisors and the various politicians sitting on various transportation boards make expensive mistakes like this, they will always have to ask for a bailout.

Jerry - I agree with you that public transportation is vital and should make economic sense as well. As a BART rider for years I was always grateful for that option to get to work. Funding is a matter of priorities and political fortitude. If SF apparently has close to a billion dollars to spend on the never-ending homeless crisis that handles less than 10,000 cases per year but funds a few hundred NGOs, one wonders how well our tax money is targeted. Then as the Sacramento legislature has mentioned, the public transportation agencies have become lucrative employment entities and have lost sight of their true purpose. It will take courage to take on the labor unions, the NGOs, become less dependent on vote buying and reprioritize our funding structures.