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Re: SMART may be smarter than BART ?
Author: ex-Marinite
Date: 02-22-2015 - 19:03
Without lots of changes in BART, I think SMART with a ferry connection makes a lot more sense than extending BART from somewhere on the Richmond line to Marin/Sonoma. (of course, a tube to San Francisco would improve that!)
Does it really make sense for Marin/Sonoma passengers going to San Francisco to have to ride a BART local train making all the station stops into San Francisco once they get to Richmond? Unless BART added an express track (and probably another transbay tube), that's what would happen once the train reached the Richmond line.
mook Wrote:
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> If BART ever reaches Santa Clara (some time in the
> next decade? maybe?), it might be time to start
> thinking about extending from Richmond across to
> San Rafael, if there isn't something better to
> work on (like finishing the Brentwood or Livermore
> extensions, both of which are actually in BART
> counties). If all of the potential IFs fall the
> right way, by 2050 you might, possibly, remotely,
> conceivably, have BART poke its nose into Marin.
> Not in any current plans, but as the kid in Angels
> In The Outfield said It Could Happen. Nothing in
> the Universe is truly impossible. And by then
> SMART will need a rebuild anyway.
>
> Oh wait a sec ... real world isn't valid here ...
> alternative universe mode is still active.
Does it really make sense for Marin/Sonoma passengers going to San Francisco to have to ride a BART local train making all the station stops into San Francisco once they get to Richmond? Unless BART added an express track (and probably another transbay tube), that's what would happen once the train reached the Richmond line.
mook Wrote:
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...
> If BART ever reaches Santa Clara (some time in the
> next decade? maybe?), it might be time to start
> thinking about extending from Richmond across to
> San Rafael, if there isn't something better to
> work on (like finishing the Brentwood or Livermore
> extensions, both of which are actually in BART
> counties). If all of the potential IFs fall the
> right way, by 2050 you might, possibly, remotely,
> conceivably, have BART poke its nose into Marin.
> Not in any current plans, but as the kid in Angels
> In The Outfield said It Could Happen. Nothing in
> the Universe is truly impossible. And by then
> SMART will need a rebuild anyway.
>
> Oh wait a sec ... real world isn't valid here ...
> alternative universe mode is still active.
