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).