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Originally Posted by TWAK
Using the Amtrak ROW till 101 or 237? BART knows how to build things in the median for highways and it's more of a fantasy route if the state had a huge surplus... 
It would not be feasible, because everybody knows that the peninsula is hardcore NIMBY. |
San Mateo County belatedly accepted the need to help support BART in order to get the line extended to Milbrae so they aren't as NIMBY as you think. I suspect they would not be the block to such a plan. The other BART counties would rightly question the utility of duplicating electrified CalTrain service and argue there are better ways to spend the money such as extending the TriValleys line to Livermore.
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San Francisco, Alameda, and Contra Costa counties are the original trio that all pay a half-cent sales tax, something San Mateo County declined to adopt after voters approved the first Peninsula BART extension in 1985. To keep operating costs in check for stations in the county, riders boarding from Daly City Station are subject to a $1.15 fare surcharge to get to San Francisco. (There is a $1.44 surcharge to ride BART within San Mateo County, which sends two percent of its 2012 voter-approved half-cent sales tax to BART.)
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https://www.sfweekly.com/news/for-ba...hout-taxation/