Really?

Metro Police Chief Tom Lambert said
the driver briefly stopped at the red light,
then drove into the path of the oncoming train.


How can we expect to justify public transportation when this thing crashes into people all the time?

The ridiculous debacle continues. This morning there's THIS article in the Chronicle about the light rail sending someone to the hospital. It doesn't matter who's fault it is, people outside the loop are still going to assume that the train is dangerous. Reduced visibility in SUVs make the train dangerous, just like the rest of the time on the road is more dangerous in an SUV. As I walked from Kirby and Richmond to Westheimer and Montrose while waiting for either the 25 or the 82- which I never saw- I cursed the horrible job METRO does with the buses in the city. When I heard about the rubber road compromise for the new east-west line I couldn't believe the load of bullshit being shoveled. Its like the monorail Simpsons episode. The company is gorging itself on a new grant of $1.5 million to teach its employees to be paranoid about terrorist attacks on the 42 bus through the Third Ward. There's a document floating around detailing METRO CEO Frank Wilson's kickback-laden past in the New Jersey Transit Corporation. He also has a history in San Francisco as the GM of the BART public transportation system, which supposedly involved rubber road bus service as well, but I can't find any documentation so it's just conjecture. What are we going to do with $5.8 billion and a promise to connect the city for once? Well we won't try and connect the two major neighborhoods- Downtown/Midtown/Montrose and the Galleria, instead we'll bend to local pressure and sacrifice the city's well being for the rich bastards who can afford to complain. Why isn't anyone along Wheeler Street complaining? They'll go under when the 3-6 years of construction start too, but they're not white people or rich brats. You can't hear them! The mayor should just annex Richmond ALL the way to the Beltway. People want it. Screw this bullshit putting around. I want a city with a real backbone, dammit.