Public Transportation and Smart Growth

the first impression most people get looking at this map is that BART goes farther out --and it would have.

but it's more than that.

BART becomes a more comprehensive urban system with it's Geary Street and Sunset District lines (if these existed today, it would probably increase BART ridership by 50%, since Geary Street bus ridership is astronomical and the N-Judah (to the Sunset district) is the busiest streetcar line).

Not to mention the North Beach line, connected to the Third Street line, which is ironic in that the Third Street MUNI metro line was just completed a few years ago, the Chinatown subway is being built now and will include some tunneling through North Beach, but no completed subway there yet. Oh, imagine if BART had been built this way, we'd have had for decades now, what we are only beginning to build now.