Could not agree more with your plan for rail on the GG Bridge so long as it is standard gauge OC not broad gauge. Of course freight would then have to go. The general trend is to get rid of non-standard gauge so BART is an anomaly. Hell, why not the 6' gauge of the Erie RR? Even more lateral stability.

What bugs me about the broad gauge is that it is an artifact, a byproduct of the bs and propaganda that BART, Bechtel et al deployed to sell the BART scheme in 1962. They promised vactrains quite reminiscent of Musk's HyperLoop to pimp rapid transit. Total lie, so they had to resort to a bastardized version of the NYC subway. "supported duorail" What a crock.

Same thing is going now with PB-CHSRA, totally out of compliance with the Prop 1a enabling legislation. Brown is assuming he has carte blanche to do whatever he can get away with, just like Bechtel with BART. But the Sac judge had the stones to question the juggernaut. I was surprised - I figured PB's jedi mind tricks would work on him. Apparently PB is up to almost 40 miles of tunnel on their Mojave detour.

I got to the Bay Area in early 1966. At that time I used to take AC across the Bay Bridge. Worked pretty good, except on Friday nites. BART construction started a few months later. I liked San Francisco much better without BART. You can keep your cacophonous aluminum beercan cattlecars shunting wage slaves to their cubicles. I am retired luckily so I don't to go anywhere near it. The last time I tried BART, on a free Spare the Air Day, it was just incredibly noisy, especially on the new trackage south of Daly City.

All due respect but that's how this crank feels.