^No mention of the outrageous cost of HSR, or that tracks have just started to be laid 7 years after approved by voters. How many HRS lines in China, Japan, Germany, and France have been built and completed in this time?
And no mention of the Bay Bridge cost to be the most expensive in the world, and actually only half a bridge at 2 miles long and took 11 years to build (again, only half the original span) at $6.5 billion, it is by far the most expensive bridge in the world (second most expensive is $4.4 billion, 4 miles long). Compared to the original Bay Bridge, the entire bridge 8 miles long, took less than 4 years to build, and cost $77 million ($1.3 billion today). For that price, I don't want corroded pieces that will take tens or hundreds of millions more to replace. Would you buy a new Lexus that had rusted engine valves? After all, the car will still run..
And then there's this:
SF has the worst roads in the country, with 74% of the roads rated as "poor." It also has the highest taxes and highest gas prices (and thus gas taxes) in the country. Shouldn't all this generosity on the benefit of the taxpayers give them something besides a little bit better than the worst?
If you can't see something wrong with this picture, then you are part of the problem. The same people that are saying "yeah, yeah, let the future generations take care of it. They should figure out our mess. They can fix the trains and make them run and figure out all the finances and everything."
How long has the new Transbay center been in planning? Decades. With that much time on their hands and with the most outrageous costs in the world (there are other seismic zones in the world, in larger cities than SF, that can build transit stations for a fraction of the cost) I don't want to hear complaining about "it's too hard, we just can't get a train to come to the terminal!" Seriously, not even one train line will be in operation in all this time when this thing opens. And it will be a huge mess left to the younger generations to clean up after, much like everything else being left to us on this planet.
Thanks grumpy old men!