ST projects 1) cost too much 2) take too long and 3) produce poor quality outcomes.

Holding steady on 1) while simultaneously worsening 3) is not fixing root problems. It's exacerbating them.

SDOT only has 1 full time employee and 1 temporary employee (and a few interns) working on this program despite the immense growth in ridership

The bike storage options on board are so bad for electric/family/cargo bikes; I wish we had more open area to stage bikes on the train; I’ll never be able to lift or fit my ebike on the hanging racks

“Between 43 and 61% of TNC [Uber/Lyft] trips substitute for transit, walk, or bike travel or would not have been made at all (10, 11, 14, 15), adding traffic to the road that otherwise would not have been there.”
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Presenter: “I would say SDOT doesn’t deserve your anger. They have a 2 person team and intern dedicated to this and working past capacity”

Presenter: We generally see better compliance where there is safe alternatives to riding on the sidewalk and worse compliance with sidewalk riding when there is not a safe alternative

The challenge is that robotaxi services like Waymo operate in areas where they’re likely to divert transit trips, not trips that would be taken in a personal vehicle