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What. The. Fuck. Why not high speed rail like down the peninsula. Or invest in feeders to existing lines. Or build it literally anywhere where people are. I q

• Animats 8y ago
  High speed rail down the Peninsula ran into Atherton. Big NIMBY problem. Personally, I think high speed rail should terminate in Oakland, with a station designed to get you off high speed rail and onto BART in less than two minutes. I have a paper copy of the Corps of Engineers master plan for the SF Bay Area, 1960-2020. Google scanned this during their book-scanning days, and it's online.[1] They didn't scan the big foldout maps, so it's hard to get the transportation plan from the scanned version. They thought big. Fill in SF bay south of the Dumbarton Bridge, and part of the north bay, too. Marin was to be for heavy industry. Steel mills in Marin, aluminum smelter at Tiburon. (During WWII, there was much heavy industry in the Mare Island / Richmond area, and some of it was still around in the 1950s, so that didn't seem unreasonable. Five freeways up the Peninsula - US 101, I-280, CA 1, CA-35 (Skyline Blvd), and one out in the bay on stilts. Traffic jams would be a thing of the past. A second Bay Bridge was proposed for Candlestick Point to the East Bay. Another bridge to Marin - Embarcadero to Alcatraz to Angel Island to Tiburon. Little mention of rail. They saw "electronic business machine manufacturing" and "future products" as the coming thing for the Peninsula. That was insightful for 1958. Environmental considerations were mentioned in maybe one paragraph. "All available marshlands will be reclaimed by 1975". [1] https://books.google.com/books?id=7141AAAAIAAJ https://books.google.com/books?id=7141AAAAIAAJ