New state bill aims to integrate Bay Area transit into one 'seamless' system

It is about time that the various transit agencies are integrated. there is a lot of duplication and waste of resources. Samtrans in particular is poorly run. Many buses are empty, do not go where people need to go at times they need to go and there is virtually no east/west routes. At the very least Samtrans and VTA need to be coordinated and have somebody efficient who understands transportation management. This is totally lacking at the moment.

How about standardizing all of the rail systems to be able to run on the same tracks? A long and expensive project, but logical...

Yet another big government ploy from a big government San Francisco politician. All this will do is take away local control and create more bureaucracy that we have to pay for, Do we really want State politicians setting local bus fares? According to this article that’s what we’d get.

I say it’s about time ! All road and transit solutions in the Bay Area are really regional. You can’t fix transportation city by city and county by county., despite endless claims that “we could just fix Menlo Park’s problems if ..” Unless we work on transit at a regional level, we’re going to feed money to endless local pet projects and redundant routing, without much regional improvement in return. One only has to look at crazy persistence of the statistically unused Atherton CalTrain station or the side-effects of the “traffic calming” via the neck down of El Camino through Menlo Park to see how foolish we can be when we optimize for local outcomes.

This is long overdue. Most major metropolitan areas have consolidated services, and some even overlap state boundaries.

Wouldn't it make sense to be able to circumnavigate the Bay on one transit system (rail or bus or both). Other places have figured out how to make it work -- maybe we should look at best practices from around the country and incorporate them here.