I have a job interview in San Rafael today. I have to take BART to Richmond and then board a Golden Gate bus.

that's why DC Metro doesn't go to Georgetown, and Atlanta MARTA doesn't go to Cobb Co. (Newt country).

the planners only included the counties they thought they could win, and apparently they needed 60% of the vote in those.

the counties not included didn't actually get to vote. i think the requirement to establish the BART district had to have a certain level of support throughout the intended district.

anywhere they thought would reduce their margin was excluded, even though a majority in those counties (San Mateo, Santa Clara and Marin) might have supported the measure.

I currently drive Napa (closer to Lake Berryessa) to SF daily for work. 1.5 hours to get to work, 2.75 hours to get home. It is killing me. If I could take BART instead..... my life would be so much easier.

the first impression most people get looking at this map is that BART goes farther out --and it would have.

but it's more than that.

BART becomes a more comprehensive urban system with it's Geary Street and Sunset District lines (if these existed today, it would probably increase BART ridership by 50%, since Geary Street bus ridership is astronomical and the N-Judah (to the Sunset district) is the busiest streetcar line).

Not to mention the North Beach line, connected to the Third Street line, which is ironic in that the Third Street MUNI metro line was just completed a few years ago, the Chinatown subway is being built now and will include some tunneling through North Beach, but no completed subway there yet. Oh, imagine if BART had been built this way, we'd have had for decades now, what we are only beginning to build now.