This is a politicized article and doesn't belong on hacker news. As someone who used to live in the bay area but no longer does, I can't help but think a lot of the people there have some major issues where they take every normal thing that other cities do to keep quality of life high and berate any attempts to do the same in the bay area as if every decision made for public health, safety and overall cleanliness of an urban area has to be optimized for the homeless and drug addicts. It's honestly pretty strange and seems sick to me.
I'm trying to use transit in SoCal right now and its dogshit. These stations have multiple floors of parking for cars but no bathroom!!!
Positive Train Control doesn't work right and is causing delays, the readerboards are accurate to within 10 minutes (but don't display info about trains when they are over 10min away).
Walking across the street to a store that had a bathroom almost got me killed by an SUV. In Seattle I can count on Sound Transit having restrooms at any station they've invested millions of dollars in.
We all have the urge to go, why should I be forced to cross a hostile road and pay multiple dollars just to not piss in public?
Whoever is running the transit agency down here is trying to drive away anyone who can choose not to ride.
Hackernews explicitly lists politics as off topic. While deciding what is and what isn't politics is often politicized in its own right, the moderators do a great job enforcing this rule.
Hacker News explicitly lists " most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon." as off-topic - not any story with any political dimension at all, which would likely make most stories posted off topic, were that the case.
