I commute daily into SF. - The evening train I take (the 5:14 out of SF) is habitually late; we run into (not literally) the train ahead of us between Palo Alt

I commute daily into SF. - The evening train I take (the 5:14 out of SF) is habitually late; we run into (not literally) the train ahead of us between Palo Alto and Mountain View; that train is habitually late too (it's the cause of the 5:14's problems; we usually hit PA on time, but the train in front of us is still in Mountain View when we should be arriving. i.e., the train ahead is arriving at our arrival time) - it has definitely gotten worse since I started riding. I recently asked a conductor what the load was: that particular train was 100% oversubscribed: for every butt in a seat, there was another standing. Frankly, the car's AC doesn't seem to be able to keep pace with the summer heat, either. If there's a Giants game … well, it's worse. When the Giants parade happened, the line was out the station, snaked through a ton of stanchions, and then stretched more than a block down the road. - rarely, I've seen passengers denied boarding due to load; but I see this much more regularly with bikers. I don't know if CalTrain takes this into account in its statistics. (I don't think I've ever seen some of those folks counted, especially outside SF.) - they got some additional cars, but half-ish of them seem to still be sitting in SF. No idea if they're just not ready yet, or what… (also, the cars feel like a blast from the past when you walk into it, compared to the CalTrain ones. They look the same, but yellower… it's surreal.) I've wondered if they wouldn't fair better if they had an additional (third) track all the way from SF to SJ. Trains could then pass, which I think might let you add more trains to the system. (Given how we're always stuck behind a train, I feel like the two-tracks are at capacity, train-wise, and you can only add so many cars before you exceed the platform length.) Not sure there's enough room all the way for an additional track, though, so this is probably a crazy idea. I wonder if it wouldn't really help with accidents though. (The first quarter of this year, for example, was hell… it was heartbreaking.) Also, > The annual Caltrain passes cost companies either $15,120 or $180 per user—whichever is greater. Is that $180 figure correct? CalTrain charges my route $2,148 annually for a pass, and I'm not even going the full SF to SJ distance. (Granted, that's the low figure, so you need the ridership to get it… but still! It's a 91% quantity discount, if you get enough people.) (SF to SJ is $2,784 annually.)