Oh yeah this should solve all our problems. Once this happens they should hire the repair team that maintains the bart to work on our power lines. That team is the elite of the elite.
BART is chronically underfunded and a chunk of its money is spent on expansions instead of maintenance and/or salaries for staff. Low pay for staff naturally leads to low-quality work and low payroll budget leads to lower headcounts (and higher workloads for individual staff).
Really, BART has a lot in common with how PG&E executives are running things. The solution is to give it enough funding and ensure the money goes to the right place. We can't do that right now with a private power company and they aren't sending the money to the right place, but if set up correctly a regulator CAN do that. Whether they will is another question, but it probably won't be worse.
Nobody is proposing handing PG&E over to BART. In the first place, with how much of BART's funding comes from customers it wouldn't be that different were it privatized.
You’re not wrong. I would think, based off of my observations of bart, that handing pg and e to the government can only at best create an entity similar to bart. Since you say it’s already similar, there’s really no point.
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