[lbo-talk] RE: Consumer goods

[martin]

I think that the problem was that the original participants in BART - 
county governments - insisted that an extension into Santa Clara county 
should include payment by the residents of Santa Clara county of a 
proportional amount of the original cost of the BART system. Whether 
they wanted interest on their investment I don't know. The residents of 
Santa Clara didn't want to end up with that bill.

Santa Clara county was 'the valley of heart's delite' when BART was 
planned, mostly apricot farmers and other agricultural activities and 
consequently hadn't seen fit to participate in the original BART 
project.

Seems like a bunch of short-sightedness all around, but I don't think 
that it had anything to do with suburban rats and rails.

Martin

On Feb 11, 2004, at 1:23 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:


> As to the BART SF Airport extension - interesting, but as they say in 
> my
> old country one swallow does not bring the Spring.  Airport is one
> thing, but I doubt that these suburban rats would allow any public
> transit in their back yards.