Here's Another Example of: With Friends like this, who needs Enemies? The Metropolitan Transportation Commission

Patch has just run an article by Nira Krasnow and Brennan Miller: .

It has to be said. The "Friends of Caltrain" are not our friends. Neither is the Bay Area Council, or the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. And that goes for John Grubb and John Wunderman. Let's add Adrienne Tissier to this mix of people who are intent on doing enormous harm to the Bay Area Peninsula. 

Palo Alto Councilman Larry Klein has it right when talking about Wunderman: "He's trying to find a way to accomplish his goal, which is bringing the high-speed rail to the Peninsula." 

I'll stay right on point. Bringing high-speed rail to the Caltrain corridor -- in any permutation -- will be profoundly harmful to each and every city through which it passes.

The Metropolitan Transportation Commission has been around for years and has failed -- completely -- to assume leadership for the most important mission it should have taken on and executed; that is, to create a coherent, networked, unified, public mass transit system for the Bay Area. Who gave this failing organization the right to assume "leadership" for bringing high-speed rail to the Caltrain corridor?  I certainly didn't.

One of the many fraudulent activities now taking place is what Caltrain spokesperson, Christine Dunn describes, when she says, “We are continuing to partner with the California High-Speed Rail Authority,"

"We are conducting a capacity study, which will help us determine whether we can accommodate high-speed rail,”  she says.

Yeah, right! 

"Oh, look, our study shows that we can't accommodate high-speed rail. Sorry, rail authority, we have no room on our tracks for you. Good bye." 

Is anyone on this planet seriously expecting this outcome?  I'm not. Which is to say, whatever they are calling a "study" and paying for is a waste of tax dollars since everyone already knows the conclusion. This study is worth about as much as those endless being conducted by the high-speed rail authority.

What we have been watching for years is the sneaky, insidious, devious process of bringing high-speed rail to  the Caltrain corridor -- regardless of what the residents of the Peninsula do or don't want.  It's being shoved down our throat, and far too frequently with our cooperation. 

Mr. John Grubb and Mr. John Wunderman believe that this is a good thing.  Thanks, guys.