By Anna G. Eshoo, Zoe Lofgren and Jackie Speier, The Mercury News; October 3, 2019
We’re fortunate to live in the world’s innovation hub, a place where ideas born in garages can seemingly blossom overnight into global success stories. It’s helpful to remind ourselves that those stories are not just reserved for startups and technology companies.
Caltrain was here before Google, Facebook, or even HP, but in 1991 the service was failing. It had low ridership and was to be eliminated until local leaders had the vision to save it by purchasing the rail corridor.