The METRO Blue Line Extension light rail transit project has been in the works for years. The most recent draft of the plan was spread out before the Robbinsdale City
surprise to people who have been nothing issue you, especially the loyal angle viewers because we have been warning about this downward spiral in san francisco for years. if i wanted to buy crack, you know, within this kind of three-block area, how hard would it be to get crack. not hard at all. how long would it take me to get crack. in a minute. people don t feel safe in the city. it s not a media ploy. it s terrible 6:00 p.m. walking around at night. are you afraid after 6:00. yeah. can t do it alone. laura: the wall street journal dubbed this mary go round of crime, homelessness and drug abuse that s plagued san francisco the doom loop. downtown san francisco now trails nearly every other major urban center in economic health. it s 25.7% office vacancy rate according to commercial real estate firm colliers international. ridership to downtown on bay area rapid transit trains is 1/3 of its 2019 level and the city s
from a cash generating machine to one where it is a more mature firm in which the focus going forward will be on the bottom line and its ability to generate profit. and that is why you are seeing so much of a focus on this on wall street. in part there was the focus, discipline on cost, not spending too much money, they laid off some staff are a couple of years ago and that seems to be paying off but crucially they have seen more riders taking over and or drivers and that is the big thing we were talking about a couple of years ago more drivers. there will longer waits in higher prices because they were not enough drivers but now the problem seems to have been solved and they say ridership has increased to levels even greater than before the pandemic. so a success story and you ll be interested to see how the rival does when it reports its next set of