> Last time I worked for the Santa Clara County Board of
> Supervisors (1989) there were ideas of connecting San Jose
> and SF by rail ...
Those two cities have been connected by rail since the 1860s.
> The east route was of the table, I was told, because San
> Mateo would never consent to a rail system running through it
> - which is why BART does not go even to the SF airport.
How times change:
http://bart.gov/news/press/news_8488.asp BART announces service to San Francisco Int'l Airport 04.17.2003
> The problem is not that much with the mode of transportation,
> but with the exclusive right of way - which public transit in
> this country generally does not have (except subway and bus
> lanes in NYC). I think it is a political decision to
> discriminate against transit.
I think you're catching on to my point :-)
/jordan