I'm glad the people in who lived in Berkeley/Albany voted to have BART (although I curse them for not paying to have it undergrounded. The whoosh and squeaky wheels used to wake me up every morning.

Speaking of racism, I found out recently that my ex-landlord's grandfather was also a landlord in San Mateo, in the 1950s implemented racial exclusion deeds: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/14/opinion/sunday/blm-reside...

and as a coincidence, while looking that up, I found: https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Bohannon%E2%80%99s_C...

which suggests he may have also opposed BART in San Mateo on racial grounds.