I remember when BART started in the early 70’s. Shortly thereafter, the affluent suburbs of the east bay started experiencing home robberies because criminal blacks from mainly Oakland now had easy access to new hunting grounds, and it has never been the same since.
Here in northeastern NJ we have the PATH (Port Authority Trans Hudson), a train link which connects Newark to NYC (with several stops in Jersey City, and branching up to Hoboken along the Hudson River as well). Years ago there was discussion about extending it into wealthy areas west of Newark, and the people out there quashed it quickly - they understood ferals would be taking the train out to their areas and driving stolen cars back to Newark. Even newer highways branching out of the Newark metro area are designed with no exits in the wealthiest places.
Money talks!
You’ve omitted one part of the equation:
Such lines always accompany separate development plans for ‘multi-family unit housing’.
THAT is the reason for the shift, not BART alone. BART and the-like simply facilitate urban sprawl and the cited spread of crime. The policies are inseparable.
It’s occurring literally in EVERY blue state with a public transit system, destroying neighborhoods one by one (more accurately, a gross at a time).
It’s less about public transit than it is about the bureaucrats & politicians placing the criminals’ housing smack in the middle of family neighborhoods (all except their own).
Since then, organizers close the Alameda County Fair at 6:00pm on July 4.
p.s. the Richmond line transfer to the Dublin/Pleasanton line in Oakland.
-PJ