SFO is exiling Waymo to a remote rental car facility while Uber and Lyft keep 800,000 monthly trips from the main rideshare garage — the latest front in California's fight over autonomous vehicles and who controls transportation infrastructure. Meanwhile, BART can't account for taxpayer money spent on a consultant report arguing against fare enforcement, even as its own crime data and two encampment fires near its tracks show what happens when the system goes unenforced.
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.