88% of the people in Marin county wanted to extend BART there, according to polling done at the time. Bridge officials didn't want it, and shopped around for a

88% of the people in Marin county wanted to extend BART there, according to polling done at the time. Bridge officials didn't want it, and shopped around for an engineer to until they found one who said the Golden Gate bridge couldn't handle the trains. The "it'll cause sprawl" narrative apparently did not play much of a role in the actual politics of the planning process.