>>>a. Suburban-to-city center commuter trains stopping every two miles or so, vacuuming up all the people from the suburbia that want to get to the city without

>>>a. Suburban-to-city center commuter trains stopping every two miles or so, vacuuming up all the people from the suburbia that want to get to the city without the hassle of endless traffic jams. These need a certain density of the suburbs, so that the stops make sense and the train is "just full", but not absurdly crammed. UHMmmmmm Cal train from south SF to say - moutain view on a bike was the worst... They would only pull a couple cars and only one of them would be a bike car. Many times had the bike car been full and I had been physically stopped from boarding the train with a bike... when there was clearly more room on the train's bike car - it was that the bike-hangers were full... I was late to a number of meetings because of this. Also - Rail is so poorly integrated that BART and Amtrak and Caltrain all have less than optimal intersecting stations.