Good things are on the horizon for our neighbors to the south: SMART, or Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit, is a proposed 70-mile passenger train service proposal with a companion bicycle/pedestrian pathway paralleling Hwy 101 from Cloverdale to Larkspur.  In November 2008, SMART will be put before voters in those counties (it involves a quarter cent sales tax).  In 2006, the measure passed in Sonoma with over 67% of voter support, but failed in Marin by less than 1% (it has to be passed by a super-majority, or two-thirds vote of Marin and Sonoma Counties).

Kevin's last blog post on BartRage.com inspired me to bring up GetSatisfaction.com.  It's a user-powered customer service forum when customers and company and organizational representaitves can interact and share their experiences.

Transit is an important part of people's lives, and its users talk about it in many different aspects.  GetSatisfaction.com seemed like a way to expose some of those conversations, find some of the most useful suggestions which might otherwise never make it to decision-maker's ears, and stop the same questions from being asked over and over again.  In short, it seemed a perfect fit for transit.