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Santa Clara county voted not to be part of BART, so BART has no real authority to run transit there. It was supposed to be around the bay, it sucks. Talk to the voters in Santa Clara county! Put something on the ballot! Change it! Please!

(Santa Clara decided to spend that money on those silly expressways instead.)

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Don't forget San Mateo County also voted to not have BART, due to their shortsighted belief that people from other counties would "steal" their jobs.

Millbrae, Colma, Daly City, etc. -- and their respective BART stops -- are all in San Mateo County.

Yes, that's because they withdrew from BART in the 60s and decided to rejoin them back in the late 1990s. If they didn't reject BART back at its inception, things would be a lot different.

Technically they haven't rejoined. But SamTrans cooperates to some degree and does pitch in for funding. But San Mateo still isn't a governing member and can't elect people to the BART board.

Actually, it is San Mateo County that is the real problem. Most of the people live in the East Bay and most of the jobs are in San Mateo County.

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