Transbay Transit Center could be key to downtown San Francisco recovery
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- The Transbay Transit Center was designed to host thousands of people. Could an infusion of cash save downtown San Francisco? abc7ne.ws/437fuGV
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San Francisco can't recover if criminals are allowed to commit crimes in broad daylight.
Now they got it to where u can kill petty theft shoplifters and not be charged
Probably why Nordstorm is pulling out of SF
Do either of you even live in SF?
@@benjamindover4337 Doesn't matter. Whether or not they live in SF makes the statements no less true.
cant curtail crime thru fascism-maybe turn to the government to actually assist its citizens instead of bailing out banks and lining their own pockets.
you want crime to go down give people access to-affordable housing, livable wages, humane working conditions, free healthcare, free education… etc.
maybe think critically instead of spouting dumb rhetoric under youtube videos.
The Salesforce center was doing just fine until Covid hit. The place used to be packed, long lines of people waiting on buses.I was an AC transit bus operator when it first opened and people loved it. Really clean, they do a good job of keeping the crime out
That's a lie nobody in sf uses public transit anymore but your story sounded good notice how you say you were a bus driver 😉😉😉😉
@@415_Stand-up Lol, what are you talking about? Most of our non-commuter oriented transit is heading to 80% recovery. What is suffering is the commuter stuff like Caltrain and BART. They mostly carried commuters from the far-flung suburbs and most of those people are still allowed to work from home because they're techies. The BART and Caltrain usage literally tracks work from home policies within about 5%.
They need to keep it out of the BART stations otherwise SF is dead
This predicted Watch Dog 2.
Simple actually arrest criminals and bring back mental asylums
we all know the real problem is the open air asylum down at street level
Better policing and holding people accountable is what SF needs to move forward.
we do not need a fascist regime… crime is an issue cause there is no opportunity.
maybe provide real solutions like giving people purpose and opportunity i.e affordable housing, livable wages, shorter workdays/weeks, free healthcare, free education-not militarized police.
@@mumble1836 Excellently stated!
@@mumble1836 lol stupid thought because of those thoughts the city is sinking a strong leader is needed stop the criminals whoever breaks the law goes to jail
@@m.m.m.m3703 no, none of what I stated has ever been implemented, bike lanes and fresh paint is a veneer to the rot. use your head booger.
@@dingusmcgringle9741 this doesn’t add up, Im in the bay and I would like help? where is it? it’s not there.
these are basic human rights that have been denied to the people time and time again. shut up you bootlicker.
your assumption is that people in need of assistance are all suffering from homelessness or addiction or that Im referring to only people who resort to “breaking the law”-thats not true, they are single parent households, working class citizens who aren’t afforded livable wages, peiple who have to choose survival over being able to seek higher education, peiple who can’t afford healthcare or are one payment away from losing their housing.
you speak from a place of arrogance and privilege-do better!
are these not things you yourself would benefit from? your kids? your friends? your family? be forreal.
All these reports mention Hybrid work as the issue, yet most companies are forcing employees back. The problem is the crime and high cost of housing.
I was in San Francisco a month ago. I passed by that massive structure but did not enter. I thought it was a massive private office building that wont allow tourists in. I thought it was like this because looking from the outside there were so few people inside. I guess tourists have to know about this new SF landmark.
Most people aren't allowed in only a select few
@@415_Stand-up Source: it was revealed to you in a dream
@@RATsnak3 you make no fukn sense
They are having some struggles but as someone who uses mass transit in SF and the surrounding area, and who goes through the Transbay Transit Center semi-daily, it's a very nice system that is clean and dependable, and the park above the center is also very nice. More people should use it. I hope they can continue to invest and eventually get the high speed rail up and going. I feel much safer and at ease when using AC Transit than I do BART, 100%. BART is having a much tougher time at keeping things clean and free of non-paying vagrants (who cause the majority of the crime and problem.)
All I can say is I was in a Bart Station waiting for a train when I was attacked by a homeless man. I'm a grown man and able to defend myself but who knows what diseases the blood, spit, and other aspects of that filthy homeless guy harbored. I decided to ask the station's staff for help. Three of them confronted the homeless guy, my train arrived and I got out of there.
The more people who ride the safer the system will be.
@@Sevenfold120 That works so well in NY. So now when people get attacked nobody helps bc if you touch the crazy homeless you are the one going to jail. 🤦♀🤦♀🤦♀
@@upallnite3164 can you name a time when someone legitimately had a right to defend themselves and was arrested for assaulting. Not a time when someone assaulted a homeless person and claimed self defence but they were never in danger.
@@Sevenfold120 Yeah 2 cases in Ny that just happened a few months ago One white guy one Black guy. Protect people that were getting attack in the subway I believe. I gave a response to your question apparently ABC didn't like so they took it down. I left a link were you could find all the attacks happening in the Ny subway, where innocent people get pushed onto the tracks. Go google it for yourself. The link I left was from NY POST. It was from last yr so who know what the count is now.
What was not seen was the armed security guard standing nearby.
If SF Bay Area is all about innovation and new ideas, why can't they solve the drug and homeless issue?
It’s not homeless..it’s addicts…call it what it is👀🇺🇸
Because it’s an industry that brings in money for democrat politicians and so called nonprofits. It’s a racket and people fall for it. Victimhood is a big money maker.
Because a ton of the local hippies and yuppies think that they are "helping the homeless" by opposing any measures to arrest or move them. In time even the progressives are growing tired of all the mess and are carefully starting to call for "compassionate measures" to deal with the drug and homelessness problem.
Give them 6-9 more months. The cracks are already showing. Even some of the Progressive SF Board members are now calling for "measures." They can't make an 180 on a dime, but they're getting there.
Police enforcing and DA. Before pandemic they were allowing cars to be broken in
No money in solving homelessness homelessness is a trillion dollar a year industry who wants to give up a trillion dollars a year jus to house people
Do our leaders not get that none of these projects will work if there’s rampant criminality done openly with impunity?
They know it, but I hear nothing, I see nothing, and they are told to talk positive every chance they get.
San Francisco is accelerating down a dead end. Nothing can turn it around. More than 100,000 residents with a wise outlook already drove out of San Francisco and settle permanently elsewhere with a better future. The residents who still stay either are considering moving out or does not have a choice. In San Francisco, there are anti-motor vehicles traffic lanes, no free safe parking, nonsense trivial municipal codes, diners and entertainment venues closing especially early, empty storefronts, vacated properties, higher taxes, filthy pothole-filled streets, and the list goes on.
I love it here precisely because we're moving away from motor vehicles and towards walking and transit.
You need a truck 4x4 to drive in SF. Terrible road conditions, potholes everywhere. This mayor is definitely not qualified for this job.
Why? Why did this happen to SF? Just blaming "the libs" is giving them too much credit. It took a lot of factors to bring SF down. The main one being the international real estate market driving the cost of living and buying a house to the moon. Throw in an inefficient juducial system that can't handle the load of criminals GENERATED BY A LACK OF PROSPECTS AND POVERTY, and yeah, shoplifting ain't policed. I'd absolutely love an approach to navigating in SF similar to the Netherlands, where bikes are emphasized. E-bikes make easy work of the steep grades and SF isn't screwed out of it like NY is. Multiple persona, positions and governmental aspects have let SF fail. But go ahead and continue to "own the libs", whatever lets you sleep at night, i suppose.
I love that younger generations are in favor of walkable cities and less car centric infrastructure.
Guaranteed those 100,000 voted Democrat GTFOH CRY ME A RIVER
It does not matter if nice things are built when the crime and filth are not addressed. They will be trashed, vandalized and grafittied soon as the projects are completed. Unless people are held responsible with consequences for their actions, there will be bad actors who spoil things for everyone.
Graffiti doesn't stop a train station from being effective.
@Benjamin Dover True, but it does create a less inviting environment and deters people from wanting to be in an area. Would you want to be in an area filled with grafitti?
@@benjamindover4337 Few people will feel comfortable using public transit filled with graffiti
All criminals are allowed to do whatever they want. Stealing is NOT considered worthy of being arrested or charged with a CRIME. Nobody wants that.
Do you know why?
people aren’t typically stealing for fun silly. increase in crime is reflective of instability in society.
the pandemic continues to effect working class folks, the economy is terrible and wealthy class expects us to be complicit in working inhumane working conditions with unlivable wages.
if you want to prevent crime then you meed to start thinking compassionately about the best interests of the people who continue to struggle in an unjust world.
that means-affordable housing, universal healthcare, free education, ethical and equitable forms of agriculture, work, etc.
not conplaing under a youtube video that the police isn’t militarized or crime isnt punished enough-do you want to live in a fascist regime?
@@mumble1836 He is indeed a silly goose.
@@mumble1836 It's so funny how lazy or incompetent people love to blame society.
wait 20 years later
the only reason for me to go to SF is to see my dad, brother's and sister's.
You need to help them escape this prison city. I'll help you pack the truck for $10 and hour.
@@jacobsockness571 that's very generous of you, what do you see that some people are overlooking?
Bay Area public transit is 90% of the way there, but in order to get the prize, you need to make it to the finish line. People are very anti-public transit in the bay because seeing homeless, or druggies, or crazy people is a daily occurrence. DAILY! I don't see families riding the BART with their small children. I don't think young women would feel safe riding the BART. The only teenage minors I see riding the BART are the ones smoking joints. So overall, I think they need to improve the safety of BART before we see improvements. We need every train car to have security checking tickets. We need secure gates so that the homeless or pot-smoking teenagers don't get on board for free. We need all the stations to be cleaned regularly, there shouldn't be homeless pee and poo everywhere. We need all the train cars to be replaced with the newer models. It sounds like a lot of money to fix BART, but that money is only a fraction of the money spent to build the BART system. We're 90% of the way there, let's get to 100%.
I used to ride BART as a way faring vacationer back in the 80's and 90'sPrimarily between SF and the East Bay Back then it felt extremely safe Even at night 🤢🌉! Saw all kinds of people on it and BART Police were a visible presence! Now it sounds like not so much! Eh?
How long before it becomes a multi-billion dollar homeless toilet?
like the rest of SF
When he says 6.9 billion dollars he means 20 billion dollars wake up people
It's not safe to be in the Financial District or SOMA after dark.
Anytime really now
@@spg5658 Well its no doubt that the officials are corrupted. All they gotta do is lock these people doing drug in a mental facility and lock them up until they are clean like how they do in every other country.
The real issue is the station was built before it connected to anything useful. It is just a hub for busses!
Without a caltrain connection the station is worthless. According to the video - they won't even have the funding for that for another 2 years. BTW - Caltrain itself is a problem since it ends in the middle of the tenderlion. I guarantee, if it offered an alternative to the tenderloin, everyone would ride it and the station would be packed.
Right now it competes with BART which is still a walk away.
Forget about high speed rail, we get it when we get it.
This was really bad planning.
And you should have led with the 2 year headline.
I'm so sad for SF, that was my favorite city to visit. We used to shop at Market St and was amazed at how bustling it was with thousands of people, loads of tourists even European tourists, every attraction was packed, Embarcadero, Fisherman's wharf, Chinatown, Coit tower, Golden Gate bridge, etc. We walked all over without fear of being mugged. Now it's all just a memory. I hope the city officials can get their act together & clean up all the filth, & reinstate law and order. And maybe people & businesses will come back to downtown.
I lived in the lower haight and the mission from 93-99… good times
what's the use of using mass transit when there is mass homeless and mass crime discouraging me from going anywhere?
Shhh, you're not supposed to notice that part. Just do what our Democrat overlords tell us to and keep riding dangerous, dirty trains and buses.
That interview is like a Monty python skit
It's time to vote Breed out.
Rerplace her with what, a dog, a cat, another libtard, all just as effective in destroying a city.
Poor widdle London Dog Breed?
Sadly I agree
Voting against diversities is racist!
It was Dreamed but not Planned !
Looks like a big homeless shelter in the making, just like the old one they torn down.
What retail will want to be there with brazen theft that endangers their employees? Who would be their customers with the high-wage workers able to work remotely? Will Garret Doty be taking public transit down there to cash his check and shop local?
Good luck with high speed rail. I doubt California high speed rail between LA and SF will be finished before 2060.
Understanding how many people are using it now compared to when high-speed rail connection comes to it will change perception on how many are using the buses right now.
Try again
With HSR this place will explode in popularity.
@@robichaud-carew stay on your meds.
It's never gonna happen now
HSR into SF is like 40-50 years away. California will be in the sea by then
The key is eliminating the drug/homeless problem, if not, that new place will soon look like any sidewalk in San Fran.
Didn't you say this like 10 years ago? Wasn't Salesforce supposed to have an observation deck for the public to go to, not wait till 50 tickets goes up for sale whenever Mark Benioff feels like giving that Ohana spirit - Ohana also being the name of said observation deck, now made private and unaccessable to anyone not working there.
Wasn't Caltrain supposed to be here already? Wasnt California HSR supposed to be here? Wasn't there supposed to be performances in the park above the center? Wasn't there supposed to be shops and restaurants at this destination/departure point of the city? YES YES YES and YES and none of it happened. It's basically a giant sunshade of a center that serves more to bring in the East Bay than it does serving any San Franciscan.
What did you expect? It's California 😂
Perhaps having TSA security at these metro and transit centers. Safer for all and enforcement of fares.
The transit center already has security! It's already safe, just not the rest of the transit system.
san francisco is bigger than downtown. it was the dream of those greedy people who get paid from the over development projects, while not focusing on helping its residents.
I want this guy held accountable for everything he said would come to fruition that won't. Talk about overly optimistic or just outright lying
Unless I'm wrong he's a spokesperson for the project. His job is to be optimistic and sell the project. But I don't think they're lies either, they're predictions for what will happen. there will eventually be greater ridership as time goes on after COVID ended. Sf won't stay like this forever
He'll be remote working from Austin by the end of the year.
@@SFPhilo Only the dead-enders moved to Texas. Anyone who was on an upward trajectory stayed and is now reaping the benefits.
If everyone had moved to Texas like you all said they would then SF would have been Detroit by now. That clearly didn't happen. Yes, the techies can pretty much work from home and the employers are still willing to keep them on a 2/3 workweek. But this is already changing. A ton of the CEOs are already complaining that their employees aren't as productive as they used to be. Whether this is power tripping or not, the workers are coming back to the office. Traffic is back to 100% BART and Caltrain are at 40% and climbing.
In other words, the trajectory is clear - gradual return to pre-pandemic times.
I had the opportunity to walk this area. Living in the southeast I was blown away at the quality, vision, and design of the whole area. This will succeed once the dust settles from this change the whole world has gone through. I would love to live there!!!! Keep moving forward SFO, the rest of the country will still be following your lead!
Sf is not moving forward lol you never been to sf
Stop voting for pelosi. Your brain is fried
@@4FYTfa8EjYHNXjChe8xs7xmC5pNEtz - he is from the southeast of the USA.
Diverse Dense Housing (mixed use as well) is what's needed to bring downtowns back to life
Great interviewer and interviewee! Rebirth begins with security. If someone using public transport doesn't pay, then they don't ride! It's as simple as that!
Without being tough on crime, they can build whatever they want and nobody will visit it. They need to wake up from their delusions and stick to basic principles of law and order.
Being tough on crime is racist.
@@4FYTfa8EjYHNXjChe8xs7xmC5pNEtz Negroes are the most racist.
It’s funny how he kept deflecting the question and not giving a real answer 😂😂😂😂 just say we’re screwed and we would all take transit 😂
He wasn't, the gist of all his answers is that it's a long-term investment.
He was blowing smoke. The whole project's obsolete and unnecessary.
The only reason for me to go to SF is to see my 95 year old mom. My sister would consealed carry a loaded gun behind her iron gate waiting for me to get parked on her driveway. Extreme? She was almost carjacked in trying to get into her garage.
With that high of a level of fear you shouldn’t go anywhere.
@@Neverender3367 Sure but I take a chance to see my mom. Love overrides fear. I detest your comment. Shame on you!
7 Billion to make a 2 mile tunnel. California is doomed.
The terminal is perfect for moving all the migrants from the border to the beautiful city so we can give them a sanctuary and take good care of them
Not only that, move the convicted pedophiles and child groomers in there too. Don't commiformia my state
Support the Veterans
We need a westbound transit to connect daly city with san jose. But Palo Alto and the top 1% would never allow it.
. *YES, UNFORTINATELY, YOU ARE CORRECT.*
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. *AND THE TOP 1% GOT THEIR CALTRAIN "BULLET" TRAINS, THAT MAKE THE REST OF US HAVE FEWER TRAINS ... AND LONGER COMMUTES !!!*
He was right about SF being in a transitional period. Theoretically, if tech workers continue to work from home, property prices should fall, and if that happens, a new industry could move in. I can't predict the future, but even if it takes 30 years for the transit center to become useful, that's still a success. We dont know what the future of the city even is, but that doesnt mean you can't build anything
So many of the delays with these projects is related to them waiting for funding. Just fund them already!
. *THIS IS A VERY EXCITING DEVELOPMENT.*
. *I SINCERELY HOPE THAT PROJECTED EXPECTATIONS COME TO FRUITION.*
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. *MAKE SAN FRANCISCO GREAT AGAIN !!!*
Sounds like what a naive dreamer would say. Keep hoping. $10 Billion total for a station and extention is outrageous.
2:15-2:20 dude smoking a cigg in terminal before boarding I thought u can’t smoke in terminal 😭😭😭
The vacancy rate is not alitle higher it’s the highest in the country and significantly higher than other metros
I was just down there yesterday. It's a ghost town.
Good. It's what every Democrat deserves.
Well, that better than a bum town
They should push CalTrain north under the bay to Sausalito and then connect it to SMART. Then they can push CAHSR under the bay bridge and get faster service to SAC.
High Speed Rail is in Europe and Asia already. Why not HERE? PS- you let people ride for free during Covid and now only half the riders are paying their fares. I exclusively ride AC and MUNI buses and see lots of people not paying fares
Cause countries in the Americas are too corrupt
Build California High-Speed Rail and build California High-Speed Rail now from San Francisco to Los Angeles and Anaheim and Sacramento to San Diego.😮
I love SF Downtown Rail Extension.😮
really gonna call it "The Transbay"
The Terminal Bay Trans
They already spent over a billion dollar for the station connecting Union Square and Chinatown. Now instead of addressing homelessness, crime and drug ODs and open injection use along with mental health issues that plague the city. The administrators need to get their priorities straight in this dying city.
Wouldn’t say the Salesforce tower is downtown. It’s actually quite far from downtown.
Backstroke, freestyle, treading water, breaststroke, dog paddle…van de Water did them all, and didn’t drown. Not easy to stay afloat when Matier is repeatedly dunking you. $6.9B for the Kings Street Portal to Transbay, a one-mile walk and ten-minute bus ride. $30 million a year to keep the lights on. At the end of the day, it’ll all work out and become a self-sufficient, profitable operation, just please don’t include the capital cost, thank you.
I remember Hamish well. He used to floss my teeth and boil my kettle for me at night before lights out. He would bounce up and down on all fours, coyly staring into my eyes and barking like a dog. Last I heard he was running a koala petting zoo in Perth. One day he disappeared: all they found was a pair of Adidas and the keys to his WRX.
Dingos got him, I reckon. Poor b*gger.
I would rather not have any problems with getting accosted.
How about the city stops taking away parking spots and putting these stupid bikes that take up a whole block worth of parking spots. MOST PPL HERE OWN MORE THAN 2 CARS AND LIVING IN APARTMENTS MEANS WE DEPEND ON STREET PARKING. and all for these stupid bikes ??
City doesn't care. They think people should ride bike and that's all there is to it.
I say a video from 2 weeks ago. nobody uses the confusing, expensive, poorly laid out, poorly managed, unsafe, dirty, public transit in the area. it doesn't go anywhere, it isn't clean, it isn't affordable.
Get California High-Speed Rail and get California High-Speed Rail now from San Francisco to Los Angeles and Anaheim and Sacramento to San Diego.😮
Some hard questions were asked, but of course the tall guy who gave the answers weaseled out of really answering them. He will make a good California politician some day.
Sooo work with Amtrak and get the buses to Emeryville inside the transit center instead of having them outside at 555 Missioon St.
The N & especially the new T line serves Caltrain well. That bus terminal is at an odd spot I'd find inconvenient. 6-12 Billion in savings would benefit transit now.
Someone is doing a bad job...
This two billion dollar literal white elephant 🐘😂
I would have rescheduled for the much busier "Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday" just to put an end to that excuse.
I pray for California High-Speed Rail.😮
You'll be praying for a long time
Wow, all that covered space and no homeless tents.
Life will never be back to the 90's 80's in SF. I see lots of white elephants.
Work from home much more palatable if you can.
And SF was scary in the 80 and 90s. I know, I lived and worked there.
Any plans to clean it up?
Yes and yeah SF Downtown Rail Extension.😮
I love California High-Speed Rail.😮
is to boost the economies of the interiors !
I want SF Downtown Rail Extension.😮
How about making more business friendly policies?
...but it wont. Keep your belongings close to you and your daughters in their rooms.
That is crazy idea!😮
Perfect hubs for the criminals, drug dealers and homeless with a short travel time. Now that's networking!
Interestingly, a couple of years ago, I totally questioned the $6 billion to (TBM) bore the tunnels from the area of the old depot to the new transit center. FYI: the 2 mile initial TBM cost for the whole central subway to north beach (exit) was approx. 400 million dollars. When I questioned the 6 billion dollar number, I was told that it "included" the electrification project on the peninsula. Now it sounds like it's "back" to being $6 billion for just the tunnel connection. I enjoyed Phil's kinda skeptical questions. Dear Phil: perhaps you could dig deeper into the 6 billion dollar cost of the tunnel. Just my two cents.
Can somone tell me why u cant buy muni tickets at the muni station
The best bus station in the world. It’s not crowded like those in New York. Keep it that way.
Yes and yeah California High-Speed Rail.😮
CA "High Speed Rail": $100 Billion with not one mile of actual track put down.
6.9 million to extend Cal Train seems really low. I would think the cost would be at least 100 million dollars!
Transbay Transit Center could be key to downtown San Francisco recovery by loading the homeless up and sending them to LA.
I live in /\TL/\NT/\ and wish our mass transit system MARTA was doing any expansion. San Francisco has always been ahead of the Curve and this will pay off in the end. Go look at European cities when it comes to mass transportation. This will be a great project in the end . Here in /\TL/\NT/\ and our current Pace will add another three million people by 2030 and the all we continue to do is expand highways..
What they kept out of frame were all of the drug addicts infesting the city. This is the REAL reason nobody shows up.
This dude is an awesome sales and marketing rep for this center!
Let’s go California High-Speed Rail.😮
I want California High-Speed Rail.😮
Yes.😮
. *REGARDING SAN FRANCISCO'S HIGH CRIME RATE AND FILTH ...*
. *VOTE VOTE VOTE*
The main problem here, as always, is money, the construction and operating costs in the USA are absurdly high, as a Spaniard and European I still don't understand how the so-called largest economy in the world has such costs and prices, it's absurd and stupid, how a station can cost $2.2 Billion!, in my country this "transit center" wouldn't have exceeded $250 Million.😨😅
I will utilize
LA and SF: OK guys, just keep thinking that raising taxes and throwing more money at projects is going to fix the rot. These cities' budgets are like water pails shot up with buckshot....so many redundant programs, so much waste. Start with safety first, then businesses will come back, then the tax base increases.
That high speed rail is such a colossal waste of money. I am sure tax dollars were used to build it because no one else would be stupid enough.
Give it a year. The open drug scene will fill up this place.
America is way behind in transit
Japan has had a high speed rail since 1964.
Hope America in general can catch up 60+ years later
Unhuh
Even Communist China has High Speed Train
That's do to our traitorous politicians selling out the US and allowing many countries including Japan to rip us off in trade deffecits. We have to root out the cancer within that wants our country to fail
Morocco, Africa ( French ) and Indonesia (Chinese) have a highspeed liine now.
Giving criminals more access to places. Nice.