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It is good to see some progress on the EIR (Environmental Impact Report) for BART to Livermore. A scoping meeting for the EIR is scheduled for this coming wednesday (June 18, 2008) from 6pm to 9pm at the Robert Livermore Community Center in the Larkspur room. A company hired by BART has setup a website for this purpose (barttolivermore.org). The full text of the meeting announcement is here. We encourage you to attend this meeting and comment.

To ensure that your comments are in the public record please send them before July 19, 2008. You can email them to info@barttolivermore.org
You may also fax comments to: 510-464-7673 or mail them to:

Mr. Malcolm Quint,
The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District,
300 Lakeside Drive, 16th floor,
Oakland, CA, 94612

Alameda County Supervisor Scott Haggerty has a proposal titled BART to Livermore and the I-580 Corridor Plan. Please share your thoughts on this.

Quote from 12/21/2006 issue of The Independent:

“A rule-of-thumb estimate on BART cost has been approximately $100 million per mile. Just bringing it to Livermore would cost about $1 billion, BART officials say.”

Letter from former BART director Robert Allen in the same issue of The Independent:
“BART trackway costs about $12 million/mile at grade in a freeway median or along the former railroad grade. That includes ballasted double track, traction power, train control, ductwork, and fencing/barriers. This figure is based on 2001 figures
escalated to 2006.

People who should know better are throwing out the figure of $100 million/mile, citing the cost of BART to SFO. That line was put in subway (over my strong objection) instead of at grade along SP’s abandoned San Bruno branch. As a result, it cost close to $500 million more than it should have. Subways are fabulously costly, and normally warranted only in a patronage-rich city core.”

What do you think?

I’ve been thinking of setting up an online discussion forum for Livermore BART so that everyone can chat amongst themselves.  Is this something that would be welcome?  If so, please reply to this post and let me know.

Matt

We have been paying for BART for 44 years and Livermore still has no station. Recently, the city of San Jose received 11 million dollars from Sacramento to add to their BART fund and they are not even in the BART district. Does that sound right? I think not! Read more »