Did they do an analysis of the tech buses in comparison to actually creating new municipal transportation open to all residents? That's what always seemed to be the real problem with them to me.
The only way to get a big transit expansion is if the state or federal government forces it over local opposition.
What we need is a S-Bahn-like service running up both sides of the Bay from San Jose to San Francisco and Richmond. The tracks are already there, we just suck at trains. An electrified two-track mainline railroad operating on 5-to-10-minute headways with bi-level cars would completely solve our traffic problems, and bring the Bay Area up to the standards of minor second-tier European cities.
What about designing rail cars based on Teslas open patents for small, semi-autonomous electric rail cars that operate on a very tight automated schedule along a public track.
So while technically you may be correct, they way they have been implemented here in the Bay Area, is, in my opinion, an utter failure.
What's worse, is we knew they were a failure from an efficiency standpoint twenty years ago.
So either we join all the agencies together and fire any schedulers they have and start from scratch. Or we find some way to do what these agencies can't.