[CalRobert]

Good. Most of the peninsula is currently held in the grip of NIMBYs who hate trains, hate dense housing, and love freeways and environmentally damaging sprawl. Part of the reason SF costs so damn much is because it's so hard to have an urban lifestyle anywhere but those 49 square miles (and Berkeley and Oakland, which I quite like)

[polarix]

There is a reason to hate "trains" when it's fucking Caltrain with at-grade crossings and retarded federal rules about fucking horns all night long. Half the fucking Peninsula is unusable for sleeping as it is.

[khuey]

If Palo Alto/etc would get off their asses and support an economically feasible grade separation plan this could be fixed in under a decade.

[pm24601]

Oh you mean the horns that this mother ignored? http://www.ktvu.com/story/28181718/caltrain-service-shut-dow...

The horns are used to try to get people to not get killed.

[polarix]

Perhaps people who are driving could consider not driving around the railroad gate (which was working when the idiot in that article decided to commit suicide).

There are remarkably few good ways out for humans in our society, so this kind of spectacle is often what they end up resorting to.

[pm24601]

There is no indication that this mother intended to commit suicide.

[CalRobert]

I actually was thinking of CAHSR, but then again the streets are at-grade and nobody seems to mind those. I do sympathize about the horns, though.

[bduerst]

I agree. The duality of the "Let's preserve surburbia" while still wanting low rental/mortgages is a little staggering.

If you don't up the supply, the demand is just going to keep getting more intense.