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in article iBYQ6.24040$Rh7.803344@newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net, Don
Hagstrom  wrote:

> If the MTC were any kind of business, their board of directors would have
> been fired by now for suggesting such a ridiculous dysfunctional plan that
> is basically telling their customers that things will only get much worse.
> Way to go.

In the meantime, we are going to spend billions and billions of dollars
TALKING about bringing BART to San Jose in maybe ten or fifteen years. If
ever built, it will provide a pleasant commute for a few folks who elect to
not live in the squalor of Silicon Valley but instead enjoy their bucolic
existence in the San Ramon valley. Those of us who live here, and who need
BART like a hole in the head, will end up paying for it and then some.

Actually, I think the gold rush lure of jobs in the valley will ebb and with
greatly reduced interest by east bay residents in pleasant travel to
high-paying jobs, the plan to "bring BART to San Jose" will die a
well-deserved death. Of course, we will still have the tax, but that can be
squandered on other transit debacles. There is always a place to dump
taxpayer money. BART is just one of the most glamorous.

The collapse of the high-tech industry cannot come soon enough for me. Let
some of these folks do real work and get some real jobs...in their own
counties, and stop clogging our roads and or trying to hold us up to pay for
a BART extension.

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