Your argument favoring commute only validates GGT's original plan to pave the ROW. That would have been primarily to speed up commute buses to the City bypassing congested freeways. GGT's attempts to do intra Sonoma and Marin counties commute buses failed due to low patronage.

In a way the opening of the north of Sir Francis Drake terminus at Larkspur scheduled for this year might work against their ballot campaign. We'll see in the real world just how much new traffic is generated and most important of all what are the actual average travel times of SMART-GGT ferry to the City vs. existing GGT commute buses under normal traffic circumstances.