[Mahler9th]

Not sure what San Jose has to do with this thread.

I live 5 minutes from Fremont BART which is currently the southern end of the SF East Bay BART line. Takes about 55 minutes to ride from here to SF, depending on which SF station.

Very safe and clean and usually on time. Crowded cars during commute hours due to economic boom.

Menlo Park is on the other side of SF Bay (on the Peninsula). The distance and routing between Fremont BART and Menlo Park is well known to me as it was my commute route for years. In recent years it has been made even more congested due to Facebook, which has its campus at the foot of the Dumbarton Bridge. Those facilities used to belong to Sun, and before that Raytheon. I worked with one of the key Raytheon management team members that helped leads its creation.

Facebook is ever expanding, but I cannot help but think it too will someday yield that space like Raytheon and Sun did previously.

In any case, it would make little or no sense to go from Menlo Park to either SF or the South Bay via Fremont Bart.

By the end of this year, a new southernmost BART station is slated to open. South Fremont near where I store my race trailer. Lots of new housing is going up really, really fast. Property values will steeply rise I reckon. As will noise and congestion.

Progress.