You bring up the perfect example, because in the current lock down San Mateo county refused to participate in the shelter in place mandate that their 2 neighboring counties opted in to. So, you cannot dine outdoors in Palo Alto, but can walk 1/2 mile north to Menlo Park and dine at a restaurant.

Yea....except for how many decades have we struggled to build Bart into Menlo Park and south?

I get it. I would settle for a smooth timed transfer between Bart and Caltrain at Millbrae. In some ways, the exceptional cases where we do act more like a coordinated unit make the normal cases more exasperating because we know what is possible.