Here's an interesting essay that expands on this exact point:
https://medium.com/armchair-economics/ec6139b54795
it's written by a collaborator of this project and a transportation PhD student at Cal.
it's written by a collaborator of this project and a transportation PhD student at Cal.
> Suppose there were some technology that rendered BART’s whole workforce unnecessary. Robots maybe. Or some super-efficient private contractor. The public would face a choice: we could lay off all the workers and use the savings to send trains more places, more frequently, and at a higher level of comfort and safety. Or we could carry on.
Sorry but BART does not exist to provide jobs. BART exists to run a public transit. If we don't need those people working in BART, I am sure their hard work will be useful somewhere else.