Remember Sputnik? The old people could not believe those commies could do something like that. Eisenhower was ashamed and Kennedy thought space travel was cool too. But Nixon was bored with the Moon and canceled the Apollo program forthwith. The same mentality a few decades later canceled our supercollider. They canceled the last Mars mission because one experiment was not ready. Was does that tell you about the basal level of NASA interest in Mars?

The real reason to extend to the Larkspur GGT ferry terminal is to go beyond on down to Marin City. It will require a sell, which would have been much easier and sooner had they gone to electric light rail from the get-go. Ditch the freight and start building ramps freight cannot handle.