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Originally Posted by ChargerCarl
Is this a joke? The "buy XXX" crap is one of the reasons public transit is so shitty in the US.
BART should purchase whatever vehicles it thinks will work best for it's system. It's task is to provide quality transportation, not subsidized jobs.
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No Carl it's not joke and I don't get how you can think that requiring or preferring publicly-funded projects use local labor as much as possible is in anyway a subsidy. The communities paying for the damn thing should benefit as much as possible. Nor do I think that the reason public transit is "so shitty in the US" has anything remotely to do with where the train cars are made. It's more like the 70+ years of auto-centric development, a suburban/car culture, and lack of public funding.
Anyway, I also wish the new cars had more the original look. They made BART unique. But I guess I'm just happy that there will be new ones. It's been long overdue.