Eventually the generation of insiders who crafted a subsidized NWP paid for by the taxpayers via SMART will croak and another crop of good ol' boys will emerge in the Northbay with a somewhat different perspective and there will be some changes. I'll be doggone and long gone.

I mean it took 50 years for the Bechtelians to die off enough for BART to "discover" tapered wheelset tyre profiles. So SMART will be decades in the evolution.

One possibility would be for Marin to opt out and it would come down to strictly a Sonoma County doodlebug. Bosco could run his freights until tough economic times cut off the subsidy.