California

The idiotic "STOP BART" commitee?
I was just a precocious tyke at the time, staying at my Aunt and Uncle's place. But from what I'd seen of BART's plan, I was excited to think that such an infrastructure could eventually extend out to where they were, and eventually it did. Plans now are for a Stockton extension.
What struck me were pictures of the grey haired old ladies that made up that bunch of screwball witches: and the quote from the paper that they were fearful that a BART extension into lower peninsula would bring "that urban element". Long dead Cruella DeVilles killed those puppies long ago and screwed future generations. They fucked up transit throughout the peninsula and Marin, opting for the expressways that now become polluting parking lots from 5 to 7 p.m..
Now that ridiculous, chugging CalTrain shoves passengers off to BART seems a symbol of similar anti-progress delusion. my own parents were convinced of sustainability of freeways, cars. They only came around to realizing how unworkable that was on a visit to me in Mountain View, and saw for themselves the mess that had become.
Now, of course, all these plans that should have been initiated half a century ago are now prohibitively expensive.