[lbo-talk] RE: Consumer goods

Jordan Hayes jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com
Wed Feb 11 11:40:33 PST 2004


Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> writes:


> 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



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