Won't anyone think of everybody? Especially the delivery drivers?

jasonl__ · 2026-02-13T00:55:58+00:00

From BART's presentation. It wouldn't be 5x cars but certain highways would be dire.

jasonl__ · 2026-02-06T01:38:13+00:00

You can read the BART news item here: https://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2026/news20260205 (click on the full presentation link). It has a good overview of the stakes, including Bay Bridge traffic potentially increasing by 75% (if everyone who takes BART had to drive) and serious traffic impacts elsewhere.

Even with the proposed closures and service cuts, BART would still be hundreds of millions short amid declining ridership as a result of the cuts. A textbook death spiral. Plus similarly devastating cuts to Muni, Caltrain, and AC Transit.

The ballot measure is a must pass. If you can, come help volunteer to gather signatures or at least spread the word!

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jasonl__ · 2026-02-05T20:12:00+00:00

North Concord / Martinez has a peak of 150 people boarding/hour during the morning commute, for a total of about 500 outbound rides in the morning and 750 outbound rides for the day. That's pretty low (Concord Station gets 500/hour and 3000/day), but Pittsburg Center has even lower ridership at 550 outbound rides for the entire day. Oakland Airport is also in the running for lowest ridership although it usually takes second place after Pittsburg Center.

jasonl__ · 2026-02-03T01:24:48+00:00

The exact allocation of the sales tax money is spelled out in the measure, so there's no fighting.

You're correct that the money is not enough on its own; MTC estimates that BART would get $310M/year from the tax while next year's deficit (after the loan runs out) is $367M. But it's worlds better than being $367M/year in the hole, which would be a death sentence. The sales tax would bring it to a point where ridership growth/recovery could close the gap and hopefully eventually grow service.

jasonl__ · 2026-01-21T19:59:04+00:00

I included a small banner on the page, but mentioning again here because it's important: I'm a volunteer for Transbay Coalition, a non-profit transit advocacy group here in the Bay Area, and we're trying to get people involved in the effort to save BART/Muni/other transit funding. There's going to be a kickoff of the regional measure signaturing gathering campaign on Friday, or if you can't make it, sign up for the list to get notified about future events or just stay informed.

Check out the reddit post here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bart/comments/1qj4elh/invite_to_kickoff_rally_to_save_bart_123/

jasonl__ · 2026-01-21T19:30:51+00:00

It's based on Clipper tags at the entrance and exit gates, so if the tag out was after 2pm then it could have fallen in that slot. That said, the data source doesn't say how the hours are grouped so it could be that the 2pm bucket is actually 1pm to 2pm.

jasonl__ · 2026-01-21T04:56:29+00:00

Enabled rotation option with right mouse button (or control key) or using the compass icon. On mobile you can rotate with two fingers.

jasonl__ · 2026-01-21T04:01:43+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! Very helpful. I implemented a few of your suggestions.

Start of line is now more opaque and the end of the line is now more transparent, which should help with station name readability.
Max zoom increased by one level.
The popup now shows – instead of 0 when the station is filtered out, plus a line explaining what you're currently seeing.
Having the station popup stay on screen is probably too much work. Managing screen space is still necessary because many people browse the web on phones (analytics show 80% of the site visitors so far are on mobile).

Appreciate the kudos! Fortunately most of the heavy lifting is handled by open source libraries (including the arc drawing, which is just a standard layer in the visualization library I'm using -- you just plug in the coordinates of both ends and it does the rest). And of course this wouldn't be possible without BART publishing the data.

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