The delusional and the chickened rule VTA - VTA Watch
What the shady idea. After spending nearly 5 millon bucks, VTA and business leaders in the Silicon Valley will find that they waste that much of money for state-of-art trench with automatic trains used by no one.
The greatest point is that the item is brought into the other board in last month without staff’s recommendation[1]. This is damn ridiculous; he superior board is set to reexamine what the lower board approves previously and reject the item if inappropriate. However, what VTA board did is something else. There are a few good men (Greg Perry and Supervisor Liz Kniss) who really understand these points while other 9 members are just sitting and afraid of cutting connections from business initiatives.
I am totally surprised at brainlessness of business leaders in the Valley. People should realize this; businesses are just selfish. They speak up only for what they want, and don’t care about the rest.
Or, are they are just blind for new gadgets which moves automatically? (Based on the operation records in these days, BART is no longer "new" and too unreliable to make people freak out, though…)
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[1] VTA Transit Planning and Operation Committee (11/15/2006) (Caution: it is PDF file.)