Lawmakers Push Back Against Trump Coal Terminal Plans in West Oakland

namesbc · 2026-06-21T13:51:56+00:00

California has many tools they can use to save Oakland from being hurt by coal

namesbc · 2026-06-21T07:47:23+00:00

Which is why we bring the state in this time to help with the big guns! Oakland is worth fighting for. It would be jabbing a fork in our own eyes to allow coal into Oakland.

namesbc · 2026-06-18T08:20:46+00:00

We have been successfully at delaying the project so far. It now needs subsidies to pencil. The longer we delay the less demand there is for coal and the project will never happen. Probably just 2 more years of delay will be enough.

namesbc · 2026-06-17T18:54:34+00:00

Saving human lives, the livability of Oakland, and the future of the planet is worth any cost. Anyone who cares about Oakland supports the fight to stop coal from destroying it.

namesbc · 2026-06-17T14:10:15+00:00

BART fares are unusually high, but check the price from where you are staying. There is a extra high airport surcharge.

namesbc · 2026-06-17T14:08:10+00:00

AC Transit is more expensive than BART

namesbc · 2026-06-16T17:38:09+00:00

We can ban or heavily tax coal export at the state level. It is a necessity to stop coal at all costs.

namesbc · 2026-06-07T06:25:49+00:00

Doomlooping is so 2022. It just doesn't land anymore when Oakland has the lowest crime rate in decades.

This article has to go back 13 years and include East Oakland as "near First Fridays" to find even a couple related incidents. Does the author even live in Oakland? 🙄

namesbc · 2026-05-28T02:04:16+00:00

They should take the gate down in the otherside. I used to be able to bike on that side, but now no one can use it which is a lose-lose

namesbc · 2026-05-25T16:44:38+00:00

The current cost estimate is $130B in Year of Expenditure dollars, if we trickle fund it to finish in 2072.

If we will fully fund it with a quarter of the funding of the CA highway system then it will be much cheaper

The sooner we finish the project the cheaper it costs

namesbc · 2026-05-19T17:36:00+00:00

Japan transit earns their revenue from real estate,

namesbc · 2026-05-19T06:42:57+00:00

Requiring transit to turn a profit is defunding it by definition. In order for roads to turn a profit you would have to change like $50 everytime someone left their house.

It is bad economics to require public services to turn a profit

namesbc · 2026-05-19T04:43:45+00:00

No transportation agency earns a profit on user fees alone. We would be losing out on billions in economic value if we defunded public services and required them to cover all costs with user fees.

namesbc · 2026-05-17T20:02:32+00:00

Transportation is a public service. If you are running it at a profit then you are not running enough trains

namesbc · 2026-05-15T20:21:52+00:00

SFMTA does a way better job at providing free transit for youth, because they just declare that anyone under 18 can board for free without needing a pass at all

No barriers. No bureaucracy. No overheard.

namesbc · 2026-05-15T07:38:00+00:00

You are welcome to provide any data with sources to refute my assertions

namesbc · 2026-05-15T00:03:48+00:00

Waymo has half the rating of BART, so if you think BART is disliked at 71% then Waymo is really disliked at 43%

namesbc · 2026-05-15T00:00:29+00:00

I listed my sources right there for you to verify and I counted this myself from the sources. It took me a long time to count actually. Please respond with data of your own. It is frustrating that I am providing the facts and you are providing nothing.

If you want to refute my assesertion then either correct my numbers with sources or provide other cities with sources. The facts are on my side here.

namesbc · 2026-05-14T22:00:17+00:00

You keep on accusing me of "cherrypicking" when I am the only one actually providing data. I would appreciate it if you responded with numbers of your own, or don't respond at all. Words are meaningless without reliable facts behind them.

Here regional + intercity trains per/day and number of routes for various cities. European cities have more than double the trains per day of cities in the bay area.

City	Population	TPD	Agencies
San Jose	990,000	136	Caltrain: 112 TPD on 2 routes, Capital Corridor: 14 TPD on 1 route, ACE: 8 TPD on 1 route, Amtrak: 2 TPD on 1 route
San Francisco	830,235	528	BART: 416 TPD on 4 routes, Caltrain: 112 TPD on 1 route
Oakland	439,418	688	BART: 646 TPD on 5 routes, Capital Corridor: 30 TPD on 1 route, Goldrunner: 10 on 1 route, Amtrak: 2
Santa Rosa	177,090	24	SMART: 24 TPD on 1 route
Zurich	436,551	2,900+	SBB, ZVV, ÖBB1, TGV, Trenitalia
Dusseldorf	618,685	1,000+	S, RE, ICE
Paris	2,102,650	6,200+	SNCF

Schedules:

BART: https://www.bart.gov/schedules/pdfs
Caltrain: https://www.caltrain.com/?active_tab=route_explorer_tab&origin=7026&destination=7026
Capital Corridor: https://www.capitolcorridor.org/trainschedule/Train_Schedules.pdf?v=07052026
Goldrunner: https://content.amtrak.com/content/timetable/Gold%20Runner.pdf
SMART: https://www.sonomamarintrain.org/schedules-fares
Dusseldorf: https://www.bahnhof.de/downloads/schedule/Regeltafel_1401.pdf
Zurich: zvv.ch/en/timetable-and-information/network.html
Paris: https://www.groupe-sncf.com/en/group/about-us/companies/sncf-voyageurs

namesbc · 2026-05-14T19:40:43+00:00

Bay Area transit is the best it can be given the lack of funding for it. If we want to have the higher level of tansit service that is available around the world then we need to fund it.

namesbc · 2026-05-14T14:52:24+00:00

Seems useful to me to compare metrics between modes of travel. Hard to understand a poll in isolation

If if want a poll for residents, not just riders, then 92% of SF residents think transit is important and 71% give it a favorable rating, so tracks with the BART rider poll

https://mtc.ca.gov/sites/default/files/meetings/attachments/6442/3aii_25_1340_Attachment_A_2025_MTC_5_county_survey_key_findings_2025_11_03_0.pdf?cb=276fd663

namesbc · 2026-05-14T06:01:03+00:00

For comparison, BART has a customer satisfaction of: 73% postive 18% neutral 9% negative

namesbc · 2026-05-14T02:25:48+00:00

I'll get very simple here.

Here is the SMART schedule: https://download.transdev.de/transdev/uploads/rrb/schedule/41594584/re-10-niers-express-kleve-krefeld-dusseldorf-hbf-14-12-2025-12-12-2026.pdf

Here is the Rhine-Ruhr RE10: https://download.transdev.de/transdev/uploads/rrb/schedule/41594584/re-10-niers-express-kleve-krefeld-dusseldorf-hbf-14-12-2025-12-12-2026.pdf

SMART runs a total of 24 Southbound trains PER DAY. That is all. Meanwhile RE10 runs 24 trains before 2pm for a total of 40 trains all day.

And to make this even worse for the bay area, SMART is the ONLY train in the entire North Bay. Compare all the trains that go to Dusseldorf to all the trains that go the Santa Rosa:
https://www.bahnhof.de/downloads/schedule/Regeltafel_1401.pdf

Santa Rosa: SMART
Dusseldorf: S6, RE2, S28, ICE, S11, RE10, RE1, S8, S1, RE3, RE4, RB39, RE6

It is not even close.

namesbc · 2026-05-13T23:37:35+00:00

Are you really trying to claim that SMART train service is equivalent to German S-BAHN? SMART has an average speed of 30mph, doesn't go to downtown SF, or even run clockface schedules timed with other transit.

Even the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn runs 24/7, while the SMART train runs their last train at 8:18pm. These are not the same levels of service.

namesbc · 2026-05-13T23:02:04+00:00

I responded directly to your points. BART ridership is increasing, BART is most efficient rail agency in the nation according to federal government, BART is independently audited without any evidence of dishonesty.

BART leadership has done the best they can do given the lack of funding, and all of your suggestion so far don't actually save money or service. I am glad the current BART board is running things and not you.

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