What was the Bay Area's worst transit project between 2000-2020?

My nomination: Oakland Airport Connector
I said transit but if you're including cars then yes the Bay Bridge steel saga takes the cake.
The Central Subway, as bad as it is, will eventually be popular someday. That will never happen to the Connector.
The SFO extension is really bad but at least South City, Colma and San Bruno were reasonable stations with sufficient use and just took like 5 years for that to be realized.

That slow shuttle skips over an entire neighborhood and charges you 6 bucks.
Also, special shout out to the Dublin-extension. Was done in the worst way possible. Vast gaps between Castro Valley and Dublin Pleasanton. In the middle of a freeway with a giant office park at the front door of the one infill station. Dont think it ever paid itself off.
The SFO extension was predicated on Caltrain pre-Baby Bullet service which is why Millbrae is so overbuilt. Millbrae is a totally unnecessary station but the San Bruno stop in front of Tanforan is moderately well done. Predates Caltrain's modernized stop. https://twitter.com/anoeilodisho/status/1355993531622457347?s=20
Oh shit I forgot about the Salesforce Transit Center. This might actually take the cake for worst. All that money for an overbuilt, harder to access bus terminal. Only upside is it can be easily converted to Bay Bridge light rail. https://twitter.com/dbloom/status/1355993925262082050?s=20
The whole T-Third Street project is a top 3 worst transit project for sure. Somehow built light rail in 2007 that's slower than a streetcar build in 1910. Tiny platforms. That project should've been canceled and have BART instead go down Bayshore to the airport.
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