Crucial is to add some major civil works, such as viaducts, relatively quickly to SMART, to lock in standard gauge OC and fend off BART permanently.

Having GGT take over SMART will make matters much easier to get to the City. The Bridge has the gravitas and means to deal with MTC, which is otherwise a BART asset.

The NCRA-NWP fantasy rr proved useful in saving the ROW and keeping it from being turned into a busway and in maintaining standard gauge. But now it stands in the way of the highest and best use of the ROW. Let them turn the Ignacio-Schellville stub into a museum op. We can afford that but not the whole damn line.