Bay Area Transit Woes Should Provide a Lesson … But Don’t.
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Bay Area Transit Woes Should Provide a Lesson … But Don’t.

In the late 1950s, the first talks began about designing and building a commuter rail system connecting the metropolitan areas around the Bay Area and linking everything to San Francisco. The idea was ambitious and visionary. The vocal opponents proclaimed that ridership estimates had been inflated, that cost estimates had been minimized, and that crippling…