Comments on: Traffic & Public Transportation http://actlocallysf.org/blog/smartsolutionsblog/2007/04/25/traffic-public-transportation/ The ActLocallySF Smart Solutions Blog Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:38:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.0 by: Jason R http://actlocallysf.org/blog/smartsolutionsblog/2007/04/25/traffic-public-transportation/#comment-80 Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:40:08 +0000 http://actlocallysf.org/blog/smartsolutionsblog/2007/04/25/traffic-public-transportation/#comment-80 Cal Train is going all the way downtown. They are extending it to the Transbay. I think BART should be extended all the way down to SJ too, but that's not really a San Francisco city issue. Bart to Marin was the original plan but a study decided against it because the cost of building a transbay tube or putting trains on the Golden Gate was too much/not structurally possible. I think Commuters from Marin are the least of the transit problems though. I totally agree on taxing drivers. And I say this as a downtown resident who also drives because public transit isn't good enough. I want to use public transit, but its just not good enough yet. Charging a toll to cars entering the city would help fund public transit improvement and possibly reduce cars in the city. It would be easy charging cars from the northbay and east bay because they come over on the bridges, how to toll cars coming up from the peninsula, though seems a bit more tricky. Even so, this needs to be done RIGHT NOW. San Francisco is WAY too car based and I think this idea would be too controversial, that's probably why Gavin is being all quiet about it in an election year. Hopefully he'll start talking about this again after he's re-elected.<ul><li><label>Overall Rating</label>: 1</li> </ul> Cal Train is going all the way downtown. They are extending it to the Transbay. I think BART should be extended all the way down to SJ too, but that’s not really a San Francisco city issue. Bart to Marin was the original plan but a study decided against it because the cost of building a transbay tube or putting trains on the Golden Gate was too much/not structurally possible. I think Commuters from Marin are the least of the transit problems though.

I totally agree on taxing drivers. And I say this as a downtown resident who also drives because public transit isn’t good enough. I want to use public transit, but its just not good enough yet. Charging a toll to cars entering the city would help fund public transit improvement and possibly reduce cars in the city. It would be easy charging cars from the northbay and east bay because they come over on the bridges, how to toll cars coming up from the peninsula, though seems a bit more tricky.

Even so, this needs to be done RIGHT NOW. San Francisco is WAY too car based and I think this idea would be too controversial, that’s probably why Gavin is being all quiet about it in an election year. Hopefully he’ll start talking about this again after he’s re-elected.

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