Please don't let the NIMBYs kill Caltrain.

Why bash fellow mid-peninsula residents? The transit authorities need to be taken to task! I love Caltrain, but it has had problems for many years. Looking to HSR as its salvation is not very creative. How about switching the BART tax paid for decades by the mid and southern parts of San Mateo County to support Caltrain. It is very unfortunate that BART and Caltrain aren't one agency rather than two competitors who don't even collaborate. How about merging? BART has misused money. Think of the ridiculously expensive extension to Millbrae that does not provide as good service to the airport as the former shuttle buses.

Sounds to me like Caltrain is trying to kill Caltrain with these ill-conceived ultimatums.

Apparently there is a long history behind the balkanization of our local transit systems, with political issues that most of us may not know about. Unless the systems can somehow work together vs competing for limited funds (the current MO), our public transit will continue to require huge subsidies to remain afloat.

"Another Commuter" is misinformed: San Mateo County is not now (and never was) a member of the BART District and doesn't have a BART tax. SMCo. does not have representation on the BART Board of Directors either.

What Caltrain needs is a dedicated funding source -- such as the BART tax that serves that role in counties that are part of the BART District.

If BART were to take over Caltrain and its evolution toward a modern electrified system, there would still be the same need for a source of operating funds that Caltrain's Joint Powers Board (JPB) faces today.

So the problem of identifying a dedicated and predictable/stable funding source for rail service in Caltrain's SF-SJ Peninsula corridor remains the same independent of whether BART takes over or the JPB continues to operate rail service in the corridor.