I'm in Los Altos and would have had a stop 4 blocks from me.

Thanks for posting this...

Right now the freeways (I-680 to I-580) are constantly jammed at rush hour. There's even an old railbed that could have been used for BART. It's now the Iron Horse Trail.

that would have been eliminated from this alone. Then multiply that by 25 other metro areas. We spent the money on a "cold war" instead.

that I and hundreds of thousands of other disabled, non-driving people would have had.

I was livid when that happened.

Their withdrawal created a domino-like effect ...

From wikipedia:

In addition to San Francisco, Alameda, and Contra Costa Counties, Santa Clara County, San Mateo County, and Marin County were initially intended to be part of the system.

Marin was on board until it was undone by last-minute politics.

Marin County was asked to withdraw from the project because BART officials were concerned that Marin voters might scuttle the entire system in the face of conflicting studies about its feasibility. Two studies concluded the Golden Gate Bridge could support a lower deck carrying trains. But engineer hired by the Golden Gate Bridge District said the plan would not work. One historian suggests the district shopped around for an engineer who would cast a cloud over the plan. Bridge officials did not want a train on the famed span, in part because the train could cut into the district’s toll collections, said Louise Nelson Dyble, author of "Paying the Toll: Local Power, Regional Politics, and the Golden Gate Bridge."

Three decades later, a 1990 study concluded the bridge indeed could handle trains. By then, however, the cost of building such a system made it politically unfeasible.

I always thought it was NIMBY pressure.

This was the gravel bed near my childhood home that BART would have used . The station would have been three blocks from my house. Note: you can't see it, but there is an electric 'third rail' beside the tracks that serviced the Northwestern Pacific electric train, a superb commuter system that served southern Marin County until 1941. Today, the rails are gone and it hosts a bicycle path. Would have, could have, should have.

which I don't expect to see built in my lifetime.

it's supposed to open in about five years.

You're not terminally ill, are you?

If BART had gone with standard gauge track maybe we could be there by now!

and BART is a great resource. I've used the airport extension twice in the last couple of months.

Los Gatos to Jennings - Sonoma -Napa - Brentwood - Fairfield

The traffic jams avoided

The population mobile together

What a lost opportunity.

you have an actual station. I have the imaginary Fruitdale station, near the bottom, which is now a VTA light rail station that only gets me within the immediate San Jose area.