Some time in the future – probably sooner than people think, perhaps around 2020 – Palo Alto residents will look back at last night’s city council meeting, where the council voted to oppose an HSR station in Palo Alto, and shake their heads as they curse the short-sightedness of the 2010 council.

...and ends like this:

...they don’t want 21st century prosperity, and prefer to string out the 20th century as long as possible. It’s their loss, really. Redwood City is now poised to get the station, should they want it, and let’s hope they do – Palo Alto may have Stanford and the Sand Hill Road venture capital firms, but Redwood City is about to vault past it as a center of jobs and prosperity on the Peninsula. And when Palo Alto is choked by traffic, future generations will look back on October 25, 2010, and see it as the day Palo Alto’s city council gave up on the future.

A healthy discussion in the comments section ensues...