Use Caltrain Instead a BART Extension - Cheaper and Better

The VTA's 180 express between San Jose and the Fremont BART station connects BART to San Jose. It is a slow way to cover the distance. A heavy rail connection is needed. Extending BART to San Jose is one of two options, the very expensive one. The other is to extend Caltrain to the Union City BART station, the all but ignored option. Local politicians as well as the newspaper promote the BART option and refute the Caltrain option by ignoring it. That is how you refute an option that would not stand up to scrutiny. See a discussion of the option of extending Caltrain to meet BART. A big selling point for the BART extension seems to be that the six billion dollars will create business opportunities and jobs. But, with six billion dollars, we could get the Caltrain link operational and still have a lot of money left for other critical projects.