This weekend I got around to reading Healy's history of the BART system. Now that SB63 passed and the regional funding measure is before us, it's motivating to read about the past critical moments when Bay Area transit *almost didn't happen*

Heading to airport. It will be so much better when people can get too and from airport with a normal credit/debit card without needing special payment or cash. BART later this month, rest of bay area transit later this year

and recommends that the housing goes somewhere else, like the city hall complex. When that was proposed during the city's housing element, opponents to that encouraged the housing on the downtown parking lots. Always better somewhere else, amirite?

At Menlo Park City Council, considering proposals for affordable housing on downtown parking lots, with supportive residents sharing posters of people in need of affordable housing...

The best SFMTA board members that almost were