88% of the people in Marin county wanted to extend BART there, according to polling done at the time.  Bridge officials didn&#x27;t want it, and shopped around for an engineer to until they found one who said the Golden Gate bridge couldn&#x27;t handle the trains.<p>The &quot;it&#x27;ll cause sprawl&quot; narrative apparently did not play much of a role in the actual politics of the planning process.