Dismal ‘49ers Express Train’ Sales

The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority had hoped to sell 2,500 "49ers Express Train" tickets as a way to get football fans to Levi's Stadium faster, and to offset rising taxpayer costs.Instead, the VTA had only sold 11 of those season ticket passes by Monday."It's not going as well as we hoped," VTA spokeswoman Stacey Hendler Ross told NBC Bay Area, hours before the 49ers take on the Los Angeles Rams for the home season opener.In addition, she admitted that VTA didn't forsee another problem: The express trains going to the stadium are often getting stuck behind the regular trains, and therefore slower than promised."We just didn't anticipate that," Hendler Ross said. "But it's only for about three or four minutes." She said the big advantage of the pricier express train $20-tickets will be getting home from the games. In the past, there are often 10,000 fans leaving Levi's Stadium and it has taken up to an hour to get on board. Express train ticket holders get to board first and leave as soon as the trains are full, she said.Express train tickets went on sale on Aug. 12, and cost $149 for a light rail season pass, or $20 per ticket. Regular round-trip tickets are $4....