Are you sure about that? I wonder how much the shuttle system costs Google. It's hard to say for certain, but its probably in the millions of dollars a year.

Are you sure about that? I wonder how much the shuttle system costs Google. It's hard to say for certain, but its probably in the millions of dollars a year. Now, let's contrast that to the BART extension to SFO, which was completed in 2002 and cost $1.5 billion for 8.7 miles of new track. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Bay_Area_Rapid_Transit#San_Francisco_International_Airport_extension http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Bay_Area_Rapid_T...) Extending BART service to San Jose (which is hardly a politically trivial affair) would cost a few bucks to say the least. There is also the east-side extension which would compete with a west-side extension: http://www.bart.gov/about/projects/wsx http://www.bart.gov/about/projects/wsx Unfortunately companies can't really just give money to the government to do their pet projects. It's been tried before and it kind of ends up poorly.