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Eric Fisher has a great batch of old timey maps and hypothetical San Franciscos. Take, for example, the above GE ad, which shows what BART could've been like if people didn't, well, suck. ("Um, yeah, technically, Brock, the reason why BART was never able to..." Whatever, we're blaming people. Hrumph.)
Even if BART stopped at, say, the very tip of west San Francisco, we would've been delighted. (If we recall, before having the luxury of working from home, the 38 Geary on a rainy day was a harrowing experience. Fie the damp Muni seat and untrained passenger!)
Sigh.
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They could still build this. It would just require reinforcing the bridge and building a tunnel under Geary.
But of course, all our taxes go to building massive freeway overpasses in SoCal so this will never happen.
hell, the west/bike path of the bridge has been clogged with fixit junk for at least five years, certainly they could have slipped in some track in that time.
Yeah, and SoCal taxes never have to pay for our bridges. Damn bastards.
It would just be a waste of money. There's no way all the Marin-inites will abandon their X5's and H2's to take 'common' transportation.
Thank you Marin and San Mateo county voters for pooping all over BART every time you had the chance. Go back and check out the proposals that every county except those two approved to see BART shouldve been
I love hypothetical San Franciscos!
BART actually going out to the west side of town would be nice, but North Bay? Bah! Who needs that lot of farmers and yuppies? I'd be fine with tearing down the GG bridge and keeping them out for good.
BART was offered to Marin via the Richmond-San Rafael corridor but they turned it down. I think that's why the Richmond terminus points in the direction of 580W.
Could still be done, but shouldn't be done with BART. Proprietary heavy rail is very expensive and the region just has to get over it's obsession with BART if it wants rapid transit all over the region. Not to mention that management/organization of the system has issues, it's fiscally irresponsible to keep growing it.
It would be ideal to find a way to expand the proposed SMART system over the bridge and to somewhere in the city, but the hook of that system is that it's designed around old Union Pacific rails that are hanging around up there anyway.