Democrat Female Leader Math
By Mitch Berg
Katie Porter, former congresswoman from Orange County, is onto something – and, presumably, smoking some of the same ditch weed the DFLers who funded the Southwest Light Rail were into:
San Francisco to Oakland is 12 miles. Even driving an SUV and paying Californnia’s absurd gas prices, that’s half the price of the train.
And if you’re commuting for work? $12.65 a day is $63.25 a week, which is about $3162 a year. You’d have to be paying some pretty ridiculous parking fees to make that worthwhile.
Which may be true in Oakland (?), and the parking fees in Minneapolis and especially San Francisco will definitely wreck you. Eden Prairie, less so.
But when you drive, you don’t as much opportunity to get mugged, or step on a syringe.
Or have your kids see hookers plying their trade:
So I guess transit get the “W”!
May 27th, 2025 at 7:14 am
I don’t know if anybody has told her, but there’s this awesome new thing called Working From Home. It was all the rage about five years ago during The Attack Of The Deadliest Virus Ever. Millions of people did it for a couple of years until middle managers realized there was no reason for their jobs if they didn’t have people in the office to sit through staff meetings, whereupon they adopted “hybrid” work schedules to force employees to stop being so productive.
Seems to me society could free up a significant chunk of the working public’s time and money by NOT commuting from Oakland. Or from Hudson or Elk River or Eden Prairie. Save money, save time, save wear-and-tear on the roads and cars, save gas or electric energy . . . what’s not to love?
Okay, no, it won’t work for hands-on jobs. Waitresses and bellhops. Electricians and sewer workers. But it certainly could work for the laptop class and their middle managers. It did before, it could again. Why not spend a little money encouraging that instead of throwing it down another rathole?
May 27th, 2025 at 7:59 am
BART is the gold standard for government union employment.
Every couple years a story comes out about the station cleaner who cleared $300k in a year, or the maintenance guy who retired at 52 with a million, and everyone knows it’s where government workers go to double dip after retirement.
I actually commuted on BART during its inaugural year. I remember stepping over the 3 card monty artists blocking the aisle and the thrill of clearing the Fruitvale station unharmed.
Good times.
May 27th, 2025 at 8:08 am
Traveling from Oakland to SF means going across the Bay Bridge ($8 toll). That’s gonna take 45 minutes, minimum. Gas is averaging around $5.00/gal and you’re going to burn at least 2 gallons.
$12 bucks is a bargain, unless you get shot or stabbed.
May 27th, 2025 at 9:13 am
Parking in SF can be up to $300 or $400 per month, so on it’s face, yes, public transit is a good deal. So the lesson for the DFL is to eliminate parking ramps to drive up parking costs to enable more people to get robbed and killed on public transit.
May 27th, 2025 at 9:47 am
The follow-up comments are brutal.
May 27th, 2025 at 9:54 am
Not added into that $12.50 is the yearly BART tax. As I recall in the late 80’s it was almost 1/2 as much as property taxes.
Prop 13 limits prop tax increases, but BART taxes are not affected. God only knows what it comes to today.
May 27th, 2025 at 10:00 am
” . . . public transit is a good deal.” Well, yes, for the rider. We could make it an even better deal for the rider, if we paid them $1 a minute to ride. Or $10. Or $100. Then it’d be a great deal . . . for the rider.
For the people living in Blue Earth or Appleton or Warba, making public transit a good deal for the rider means paying higher taxes to fund it. For them, an even better deal would be to tear up the tracks completely.
Does California have a comparable “outstate” population that subsidizes big-city urban ridership?
May 27th, 2025 at 10:31 am
Anybody know what the per trip subsidy is?
May 27th, 2025 at 1:40 pm
Arthur,
Ah! Prop 13. Brings back memories of when my wife and I first moved there in 1979. Landlords used that to raise rental rates every three to six months and then wondered why they had such a high tenant turnover rate. We, naively as it turned out, decided that we wanted a beach view, thinking that we may never have the opportunity to do so again. The rent for literally a sliver view of the ocean, cost an extra $100 per month, so we abandoned that plan. We ended up with name (Redondo Beach) prestige vs paying for a view.
jdm,
That ignorant twit, who claims to be the champion of working, single moms, while having a net worth of over $5 million at last check, is one of my wife’s left wing heroes. God help CA is they elect another freaking far left DemoCommie, especially female one.
May 27th, 2025 at 3:44 pm
I don’t get it. Why not just take the $225 red-eye flight to Dallas and stay there?
Think of the money you would save!!!!
May 28th, 2025 at 1:16 am
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