SFO is forcing Waymo to operate from the Rental Car Center — a 10-minute AirTrain detour — while Uber and Lyft keep exclusive access to the main rideshare garage and its 800,000 monthly trips. The move follows a string of transit accountability fights: BART can't produce the invoice for a consultant report it commissioned to argue fare enforcement was pointless, even as its own crime data shows new fare gates drove a dramatic safety improvement. From autonomous vehicle politics to encampment fires shutting down the Transbay Tube, the decisions being made right now by transit bureaucrats and airport officials have direct consequences for how safely and reliably you get around the Bay Area.
Waymo cleared every safety bar and got exiled to the Rental Car Center. Meanwhile, Uber and Lyft keep 800,000 monthly trips.
Now they want a new tax, and can't find the invoice for the "equity" report they commissioned to argue enforcing fares was pointless
BART's 2025 crime collapse confirms what NYC learned in 1990: fare enforcement isn't about the fare. It's about who's riding your system.
BART knew about the encampment, had legal authority to clear it, and asked Oakland nicely. Then it burned.
DC had 52 traffic deaths last year. Waymo cuts pedestrian injuries by 92%. A mayoral candidate says the city "isn't ready."
Instead of fixing endemic graft, overtime abuse, and union-protected waste, they're holding your commute hostage for a November tax bailout.