Robotaxis are an existential threat to SF’s public transit system

The point not being made by the Breed Administration is that robotaxis will have a profound long-term impact on public transit. How will we create the operating funding for public transit when a significant portion of the voting population no longer use the service? We need leadership in making the case for public transit, showing why electronic cars are still more wasteful, less sustainable, and create even more social isolation than public transit. Service declined as did ridership as people preferred cars to poorly maintained and managed (privately owned) public transit. That’s how the private sector deals with public transit: it kills it.