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As with the rise of Uber, this boom will decrease transit ridership and increase traffic congestion.

In a 315-page compliance review released Wednesday, the Department of Transportation cited budget shortfalls, missed deadlines and a misleading projected ridership to connect San Francisco to Los Angeles via fast rail.

“This provides another option for when maybe there’s lower ridership to justify transit or maybe they want something that can circulate on the smaller streets a little bit more.”

County Supervisor Janice Hahn introduced a motion Wednesday during Metro’s Olympics and Paralympics committee meeting to launch a feasibility study assessing ridership demand, cost and possible routes.

Many of the system’s 1.2 million daily rides would shift to cars, clogging the streets, and the system would enter the “transit death spiral,” in which service cuts beget ridership declines until transit is the option of last resort.