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7/16/2025, 11:55:50 PM
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>Be Sonoma County
>successfully convince your much richer neighbors in Marin County that a mutual rail project and multiuse path will be to everyone's benefit
>get project on the 2006 ballot
>fail because you didn't get the 2/3rds majority
>get project on the 2008 ballot
>succeed because Obama
>Great Recession tanks world economy
>use time to plan, negotiate, and raise funds
>2012 rehabilitate tunnels and bridges, replace 100 year old tracks and sleepers
>realize the project manager is only a political activist who got the ballot through
>promote the actual rail engineer to project manager
>2016 estimate of initial operating segment opening
>except not because testing takes a lot longer than expected
>June-July 2017 allow people to ride the initial operating segment for free for a month as show of good faith so people can ride what they paid for
>August 2017 actual initial operating segment opening
>December 2019 complete segment to Larkspur so people can get on the ferry to San Francisco
>January 2025 finish the Petaluma North station
>June 2025 finish the Windsor station
>SMART isn't even complete yet
>SMART was late and over budget
>SMART is somehow faster and cheaper than BART
>Receive accolades from other counties in California for the project you're still working on
>Several are interested in starting their own rail projects
>talks and plans are underway with Napa County and Mendocino County over potential line extension
>a county of dairy ranchers, chicken farmers, and vineyards owners has somehow emerged as the most competent (entry level) rail builders in the State of California
>Be Sonoma County
>successfully convince your much richer neighbors in Marin County that a mutual rail project and multiuse path will be to everyone's benefit
>get project on the 2006 ballot
>fail because you didn't get the 2/3rds majority
>get project on the 2008 ballot
>succeed because Obama
>Great Recession tanks world economy
>use time to plan, negotiate, and raise funds
>2012 rehabilitate tunnels and bridges, replace 100 year old tracks and sleepers
>realize the project manager is only a political activist who got the ballot through
>promote the actual rail engineer to project manager
>2016 estimate of initial operating segment opening
>except not because testing takes a lot longer than expected
>June-July 2017 allow people to ride the initial operating segment for free for a month as show of good faith so people can ride what they paid for
>August 2017 actual initial operating segment opening
>December 2019 complete segment to Larkspur so people can get on the ferry to San Francisco
>January 2025 finish the Petaluma North station
>June 2025 finish the Windsor station
>SMART isn't even complete yet
>SMART was late and over budget
>SMART is somehow faster and cheaper than BART
>Receive accolades from other counties in California for the project you're still working on
>Several are interested in starting their own rail projects
>talks and plans are underway with Napa County and Mendocino County over potential line extension
>a county of dairy ranchers, chicken farmers, and vineyards owners has somehow emerged as the most competent (entry level) rail builders in the State of California
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