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Transit rewards

258 points · 348 comments · raybb

  1. dcrazy · · focus · HN ↗
    Meanwhile, the 47 Muni bus that connects the Van Ness transit corridor to Caltrain has been “suspended” since 2020, and the extension of Caltrain to the transit center is still unfunded.

    I appreciate solutions that meet us where we are, but it’s depressing that we don’t seem to actually have the will to make a sustainable, integrated mass transit plan.

    1. 8f2ab37a-ed6c · · focus · HN ↗
      In the Bay Area it's easier to create AGI than reliable, consistent, clean public transit.
      1. repeekad · · focus · HN ↗

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        1. UnfitFootprint · · focus · HN ↗
          Excluding the fact that drug addicts are still humans deserving love, care and the opportunity to recuperate - fostering a clean & safe transit environment is practically a solved problem internationally.

          Maybe the moral depravity of SF breeds truly irredeemable addicts, but as someone whos met a lot of troubled people and ridden a lot of public transit your statement seems alarmingly and unhelpfully critical

          1. bko · · focus · HN ↗
            There's nothing compassionate, loving or caring letting people kill themselves consuming hard drugs.
            1. Geezus_42 · · focus · HN ↗
              Can we really blame individuals when we have recorded, legally admissable evidence of corporations knowingly pushing the over-perscription of extremely addictive drugs while claiming they are safe and non-addictive?
              1. bko · · focus · HN ↗
                Yes. I don't think the typical homeless drug user is relying on pharma provided research on the substances they're ingesting when deciding to pick up the habit in the first place.
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