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It's a shame that SF politics are so dysfunctional it can't have a metro at the same level of quality as, say, North Korea.

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North Korea? If you think it is a good example of a low bar of transit quality/safety to meet, then you’re comically far off.

You think that's setting the bar too high or too low?

Too high. I think NK transit system is incomparably safer and cleaner than BART.

Riding without a ticket? Jail.

Littering on the platform? Straight to jail, right away!

Doing any violent crime in NK transit? Believe it or not - death by firing squad.

Here is a quick overview of how the system works: https://youtu.be/eiyfwZVAzGw?si=CnOMa8F6NkiyhifE

We're in agreement about the facts on the ground.

Setting aside safety for a moment, consider just hygiene: BART is shockingly dirty. Which suggests mismanagement, above and beyond just a lack of detterence of criminality.

As for safety -- firing squads are probably not in the cards, but would jailing the violent be too much to hope for?

SF doesn't run BART, though.

Not saying SF politics is great, but at least point to the correct boogeyman.

I didn't know that, but please accept SF as a sloppy metonym for bay area. :-)

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