You know we joke about "hereby declare" but if China had needed a station built it would be opening next year. And we'd have 8 stops on the Peninsula. mercurynews.com/2019/08/23/b…
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Replying to @vvuk
On the Peninsula we should demand Caltrain running BART-like service. It's much closer to reality than replacing it all with Indian gauge and third rail etc. Electrification is well underway. Need some passing tracks, new trains, and gradual platform raising, grade sep.

Aug 24, 2019 · 5:49 AM UTC

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Replying to @davidbaron
Yeah, agreed. I didn't actually mean BART, just similar service. Really commenting that it took, what, 40 years to get to a point where maybe kinda sorta likely probably there will be a single station there ... in another 7 years.
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Though taking trains in China has a lot of the same unpleasantness as flying in the US -- security, waiting in lines, having tickets checked, etc. But at least the stations are in the city center and it pollutes less (at least if the electricity isn't from coal).
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