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The Salesforce center was doing just fine until Covid hit. The place used to be packed, long lines of people waiting on buses.I was an AC transit bus operator when it first opened and people loved it. Really clean, they do a good job of keeping the crime out
@@415_Stand-up Lol, what are you talking about? Most of our non-commuter oriented transit is heading to 80% recovery. What is suffering is the commuter stuff like Caltrain and BART. They mostly carried commuters from the far-flung suburbs and most of those people are still allowed to work from home because they're techies. The BART and Caltrain usage literally tracks work from home policies within about 5%.
cant curtail crime thru fascism-maybe turn to the government to actually assist its citizens instead of bailing out banks and lining their own pockets. you want crime to go down give people access to-affordable housing, livable wages, humane working conditions, free healthcare, free education… etc. maybe think critically instead of spouting dumb rhetoric under youtube videos.
we do not need a fascist regime… crime is an issue cause there is no opportunity. maybe provide real solutions like giving people purpose and opportunity i.e affordable housing, livable wages, shorter workdays/weeks, free healthcare, free education-not militarized police.
@@mumble1836 lol stupid thought because of those thoughts the city is sinking a strong leader is needed stop the criminals whoever breaks the law goes to jail
@@dingusmcgringle9741 this doesn’t add up, Im in the bay and I would like help? where is it? it’s not there. these are basic human rights that have been denied to the people time and time again. shut up you bootlicker. your assumption is that people in need of assistance are all suffering from homelessness or addiction or that Im referring to only people who resort to “breaking the law”-thats not true, they are single parent households, working class citizens who aren’t afforded livable wages, peiple who have to choose survival over being able to seek higher education, peiple who can’t afford healthcare or are one payment away from losing their housing. you speak from a place of arrogance and privilege-do better! are these not things you yourself would benefit from? your kids? your friends? your family? be forreal.
I was in San Francisco a month ago. I passed by that massive structure but did not enter. I thought it was a massive private office building that wont allow tourists in. I thought it was like this because looking from the outside there were so few people inside. I guess tourists have to know about this new SF landmark.
All I can say is I was in a Bart Station waiting for a train when I was attacked by a homeless man. I'm a grown man and able to defend myself but who knows what diseases the blood, spit, and other aspects of that filthy homeless guy harbored. I decided to ask the station's staff for help. Three of them confronted the homeless guy, my train arrived and I got out of there.
@@Sevenfold120 That works so well in NY. So now when people get attacked nobody helps bc if you touch the crazy homeless you are the one going to jail. 🤦♀🤦♀🤦♀
@@upallnite3164 can you name a time when someone legitimately had a right to defend themselves and was arrested for assaulting. Not a time when someone assaulted a homeless person and claimed self defence but they were never in danger.
@@Sevenfold120 Yeah 2 cases in Ny that just happened a few months ago One white guy one Black guy. Protect people that were getting attack in the subway I believe. I gave a response to your question apparently ABC didn't like so they took it down. I left a link were you could find all the attacks happening in the Ny subway, where innocent people get pushed onto the tracks. Go google it for yourself. The link I left was from NY POST. It was from last yr so who know what the count is now.
They are having some struggles but as someone who uses mass transit in SF and the surrounding area, and who goes through the Transbay Transit Center semi-daily, it's a very nice system that is clean and dependable, and the park above the center is also very nice. More people should use it. I hope they can continue to invest and eventually get the high speed rail up and going. I feel much safer and at ease when using AC Transit than I do BART, 100%. BART is having a much tougher time at keeping things clean and free of non-paying vagrants (who cause the majority of the crime and problem.)
Because it’s an industry that brings in money for democrat politicians and so called nonprofits. It’s a racket and people fall for it. Victimhood is a big money maker.
Because a ton of the local hippies and yuppies think that they are "helping the homeless" by opposing any measures to arrest or move them. In time even the progressives are growing tired of all the mess and are carefully starting to call for "compassionate measures" to deal with the drug and homelessness problem. Give them 6-9 more months. The cracks are already showing. Even some of the Progressive SF Board members are now calling for "measures." They can't make an 180 on a dime, but they're getting there.
Bay Area public transit is 90% of the way there, but in order to get the prize, you need to make it to the finish line. People are very anti-public transit in the bay because seeing homeless, or druggies, or crazy people is a daily occurrence. DAILY! I don't see families riding the BART with their small children. I don't think young women would feel safe riding the BART. The only teenage minors I see riding the BART are the ones smoking joints. So overall, I think they need to improve the safety of BART before we see improvements. We need every train car to have security checking tickets. We need secure gates so that the homeless or pot-smoking teenagers don't get on board for free. We need all the stations to be cleaned regularly, there shouldn't be homeless pee and poo everywhere. We need all the train cars to be replaced with the newer models. It sounds like a lot of money to fix BART, but that money is only a fraction of the money spent to build the BART system. We're 90% of the way there, let's get to 100%.
I used to ride BART as a way faring vacationer back in the 80's and 90'sPrimarily between SF and the East Bay Back then it felt extremely safe Even at night 🤢🌉! Saw all kinds of people on it and BART Police were a visible presence! Now it sounds like not so much! Eh?
It does not matter if nice things are built when the crime and filth are not addressed. They will be trashed, vandalized and grafittied soon as the projects are completed. Unless people are held responsible with consequences for their actions, there will be bad actors who spoil things for everyone.
@Benjamin Dover True, but it does create a less inviting environment and deters people from wanting to be in an area. Would you want to be in an area filled with grafitti?
San Francisco is accelerating down a dead end. Nothing can turn it around. More than 100,000 residents with a wise outlook already drove out of San Francisco and settle permanently elsewhere with a better future. The residents who still stay either are considering moving out or does not have a choice. In San Francisco, there are anti-motor vehicles traffic lanes, no free safe parking, nonsense trivial municipal codes, diners and entertainment venues closing especially early, empty storefronts, vacated properties, higher taxes, filthy pothole-filled streets, and the list goes on.
Why? Why did this happen to SF? Just blaming "the libs" is giving them too much credit. It took a lot of factors to bring SF down. The main one being the international real estate market driving the cost of living and buying a house to the moon. Throw in an inefficient juducial system that can't handle the load of criminals GENERATED BY A LACK OF PROSPECTS AND POVERTY, and yeah, shoplifting ain't policed. I'd absolutely love an approach to navigating in SF similar to the Netherlands, where bikes are emphasized. E-bikes make easy work of the steep grades and SF isn't screwed out of it like NY is. Multiple persona, positions and governmental aspects have let SF fail. But go ahead and continue to "own the libs", whatever lets you sleep at night, i suppose.
@@spg5658 Well its no doubt that the officials are corrupted. All they gotta do is lock these people doing drug in a mental facility and lock them up until they are clean like how they do in every other country.
What retail will want to be there with brazen theft that endangers their employees? Who would be their customers with the high-wage workers able to work remotely? Will Garret Doty be taking public transit down there to cash his check and shop local?
Didn't you say this like 10 years ago? Wasn't Salesforce supposed to have an observation deck for the public to go to, not wait till 50 tickets goes up for sale whenever Mark Benioff feels like giving that Ohana spirit - Ohana also being the name of said observation deck, now made private and unaccessable to anyone not working there. Wasn't Caltrain supposed to be here already? Wasnt California HSR supposed to be here? Wasn't there supposed to be performances in the park above the center? Wasn't there supposed to be shops and restaurants at this destination/departure point of the city? YES YES YES and YES and none of it happened. It's basically a giant sunshade of a center that serves more to bring in the East Bay than it does serving any San Franciscan.
The real issue is the station was built before it connected to anything useful. It is just a hub for busses! Without a caltrain connection the station is worthless. According to the video - they won't even have the funding for that for another 2 years. BTW - Caltrain itself is a problem since it ends in the middle of the tenderlion. I guarantee, if it offered an alternative to the tenderloin, everyone would ride it and the station would be packed. Right now it competes with BART which is still a walk away. Forget about high speed rail, we get it when we get it. This was really bad planning. And you should have led with the 2 year headline.
people aren’t typically stealing for fun silly. increase in crime is reflective of instability in society. the pandemic continues to effect working class folks, the economy is terrible and wealthy class expects us to be complicit in working inhumane working conditions with unlivable wages. if you want to prevent crime then you meed to start thinking compassionately about the best interests of the people who continue to struggle in an unjust world. that means-affordable housing, universal healthcare, free education, ethical and equitable forms of agriculture, work, etc. not conplaing under a youtube video that the police isn’t militarized or crime isnt punished enough-do you want to live in a fascist regime?
Understanding how many people are using it now compared to when high-speed rail connection comes to it will change perception on how many are using the buses right now.
san francisco is bigger than downtown. it was the dream of those greedy people who get paid from the over development projects, while not focusing on helping its residents.
Unless I'm wrong he's a spokesperson for the project. His job is to be optimistic and sell the project. But I don't think they're lies either, they're predictions for what will happen. there will eventually be greater ridership as time goes on after COVID ended. Sf won't stay like this forever
@@SFPhilo Only the dead-enders moved to Texas. Anyone who was on an upward trajectory stayed and is now reaping the benefits. If everyone had moved to Texas like you all said they would then SF would have been Detroit by now. That clearly didn't happen. Yes, the techies can pretty much work from home and the employers are still willing to keep them on a 2/3 workweek. But this is already changing. A ton of the CEOs are already complaining that their employees aren't as productive as they used to be. Whether this is power tripping or not, the workers are coming back to the office. Traffic is back to 100% BART and Caltrain are at 40% and climbing. In other words, the trajectory is clear - gradual return to pre-pandemic times.
I'm so sad for SF, that was my favorite city to visit. We used to shop at Market St and was amazed at how bustling it was with thousands of people, loads of tourists even European tourists, every attraction was packed, Embarcadero, Fisherman's wharf, Chinatown, Coit tower, Golden Gate bridge, etc. We walked all over without fear of being mugged. Now it's all just a memory. I hope the city officials can get their act together & clean up all the filth, & reinstate law and order. And maybe people & businesses will come back to downtown.
The only reason for me to go to SF is to see my 95 year old mom. My sister would consealed carry a loaded gun behind her iron gate waiting for me to get parked on her driveway. Extreme? She was almost carjacked in trying to get into her garage.
Without being tough on crime, they can build whatever they want and nobody will visit it. They need to wake up from their delusions and stick to basic principles of law and order.
I had the opportunity to walk this area. Living in the southeast I was blown away at the quality, vision, and design of the whole area. This will succeed once the dust settles from this change the whole world has gone through. I would love to live there!!!! Keep moving forward SFO, the rest of the country will still be following your lead!
. *YES, UNFORTINATELY, YOU ARE CORRECT.* . . *AND THE TOP 1% GOT THEIR CALTRAIN "BULLET" TRAINS, THAT MAKE THE REST OF US HAVE FEWER TRAINS ... AND LONGER COMMUTES !!!*
Great interviewer and interviewee! Rebirth begins with security. If someone using public transport doesn't pay, then they don't ride! It's as simple as that!
He was right about SF being in a transitional period. Theoretically, if tech workers continue to work from home, property prices should fall, and if that happens, a new industry could move in. I can't predict the future, but even if it takes 30 years for the transit center to become useful, that's still a success. We dont know what the future of the city even is, but that doesnt mean you can't build anything
They already spent over a billion dollar for the station connecting Union Square and Chinatown. Now instead of addressing homelessness, crime and drug ODs and open injection use along with mental health issues that plague the city. The administrators need to get their priorities straight in this dying city.
They should push CalTrain north under the bay to Sausalito and then connect it to SMART. Then they can push CAHSR under the bay bridge and get faster service to SAC.
I say a video from 2 weeks ago. nobody uses the confusing, expensive, poorly laid out, poorly managed, unsafe, dirty, public transit in the area. it doesn't go anywhere, it isn't clean, it isn't affordable.
Backstroke, freestyle, treading water, breaststroke, dog paddle…van de Water did them all, and didn’t drown. Not easy to stay afloat when Matier is repeatedly dunking you. $6.9B for the Kings Street Portal to Transbay, a one-mile walk and ten-minute bus ride. $30 million a year to keep the lights on. At the end of the day, it’ll all work out and become a self-sufficient, profitable operation, just please don’t include the capital cost, thank you.
I remember Hamish well. He used to floss my teeth and boil my kettle for me at night before lights out. He would bounce up and down on all fours, coyly staring into my eyes and barking like a dog. Last I heard he was running a koala petting zoo in Perth. One day he disappeared: all they found was a pair of Adidas and the keys to his WRX. Dingos got him, I reckon. Poor b*gger.
How about the city stops taking away parking spots and putting these stupid bikes that take up a whole block worth of parking spots. MOST PPL HERE OWN MORE THAN 2 CARS AND LIVING IN APARTMENTS MEANS WE DEPEND ON STREET PARKING. and all for these stupid bikes ??
Some hard questions were asked, but of course the tall guy who gave the answers weaseled out of really answering them. He will make a good California politician some day.
The N & especially the new T line serves Caltrain well. That bus terminal is at an odd spot I'd find inconvenient. 6-12 Billion in savings would benefit transit now.
The main problem here, as always, is money, the construction and operating costs in the USA are absurdly high, as a Spaniard and European I still don't understand how the so-called largest economy in the world has such costs and prices, it's absurd and stupid, how a station can cost $2.2 Billion!, in my country this "transit center" wouldn't have exceeded $250 Million.😨😅
High Speed Rail is in Europe and Asia already. Why not HERE? PS- you let people ride for free during Covid and now only half the riders are paying their fares. I exclusively ride AC and MUNI buses and see lots of people not paying fares
LA and SF: OK guys, just keep thinking that raising taxes and throwing more money at projects is going to fix the rot. These cities' budgets are like water pails shot up with buckshot....so many redundant programs, so much waste. Start with safety first, then businesses will come back, then the tax base increases.
Seems like San Francisco should be solving its OTHER problems first instead of saying this is the solution to them. But what the heck do I know? I only live in crazy desert city that has low taxes, is runningn out of water, drug addicts jumping up and down on street corners, slave wages, and a horrible quality of life.
I live in /\TL/\NT/\ and wish our mass transit system MARTA was doing any expansion. San Francisco has always been ahead of the Curve and this will pay off in the end. Go look at European cities when it comes to mass transportation. This will be a great project in the end . Here in /\TL/\NT/\ and our current Pace will add another three million people by 2030 and the all we continue to do is expand highways..
That's do to our traitorous politicians selling out the US and allowing many countries including Japan to rip us off in trade deffecits. We have to root out the cancer within that wants our country to fail
Only if they start to enforce the laws, and start to 5150 the drug addicts to break their addiction. Right now they are giving them free needles. STUPID.
