> We can't seem to get anything done. From a distant outside perspective, my impression is that nothing will ever be done, short of a cataclysmic upheaval (pol

> We can't seem to get anything done. From a distant outside perspective, my impression is that nothing will ever be done, short of a cataclysmic upheaval (political or geographic). The major barriers are that there is no single polity for the Bay Area and that there are multiple rail systems. Small polities resist mergers because they (correctly) deduce that their local wishes will be overridden by a wider collective need. Multiple public rail systems won't be merged. Unlike private rail, they don't have economic pressure to merge and have independent sources of existence (state vs federal legislation, for example).