On: San Francisco to offer free childcare to people making up to $230k

[mapotofu]

I don’t understand the boosters saying BART and Caltrain are good systems. When I lived there, and part of the reason I left, those systems were frequently delayed, full of drug addicts, and they lacked comprehensive service throughout SF, requiring dependence on Muni, which is worse than the other 2. I don’t think those who say this is a great system have been exposed to how other places in the world handle these things.

[teaearlgraycold → mapotofu]

1. I live and work around BART stations so it works well for me 2. I just ignore the drug addicts 3. The delays are there but it all works well enough to be very useful

[gundmc → mapotofu]

I've never experienced any of these on Caltrain in the last ~10 years, for what it's worth.

[dietr1ch → gundmc]

Maybe you were the drug addict?

[Aloisius → gundmc]

Really? You haven't seen frequent delays in the last decade?

Not even for the (sadly) semi-regular pedestrian fatalities that happen once or twice a month? Those usually delay trains for over an hour.

Caltrain's own reports say there are hundreds of late trains every month.