I couldn't agree more with the argument that Muni's Central Subway project should not in any way make a Geary Subway more difficult. That would be completely irresponsible, but not impossible the way things work around here.

Oh I do remember painfully how hard it was to argue the transit cause in years past. The up side is that the highway lobby has been cruising on almost free gas till now. The King of Saudi Arabia is 84 years old and the new generation in the gulf will not be pushover playboys, no matter how much Exxon would like it that way. The Arabs are not going to be selling their gas for less than the price of Coca Cola or Evian water per gallon. T Boone Pickens can drill on the White House lawn but it won't bring back their good old days that saw the end of the B line and most all of electric rail in the US. In Europe generally they didn't trash their legacy transit systems the way we did because they had very little domestic oil production. We are in the same boat now; the American public just doesn't know it yet.

I have a visceral and probably irrational dislike of BART which makes me hope that the North Bay will be served instead by a joint light rail operation with Muni via a second deck on the GG Bridge.