In San Jose and the rest of the Bay Area, opinion leaders have such a strong and uniform preference for expanding transit that they often ignore counterarguments. But this policy monoculture does not serve the public who should instead hear a robust debate of any given expansion plan.
Perhaps if there was a more robust debate about transit in San Jose, VTA would have been obliged to conduct a proper cost-benefit analysis of the Eastridge project. Instead, it has fallen to the state auditor, hardly an 'anti-transit think tank,' to insist that VTA conduct cost-benefit analysis when considering large capital projects in the future.
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