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Grassroots Issues has a video interview with local resident Valerie Raymond regarding the options for the Livermore BART route. Valerie shows and explains to host Barbara Hickman the nine BART route options as presented at a recent workshop in Livermore. She includes pros and cons of each route and justifies her own preference.

Its great to hear that there’s some progress on Livermore BART. Information about the published draft EIR and public workshops is on available on the official BART to Livermore website. Please attend as many as you can and voice your opinion. This is your chance to influence where the Livermore BART station will be located. We are now on Facebook and Twitter. Click on the links to the left to join us on these social networking sites to discuss the draft EIR and all other matters related to Livermore BART. The Facebook page has a calendar for the upcoming public events related to Livermore BART.

Three workshops have been scheduled to take public input on a BART extension to Livermore. In addition, public hearings will be held to take comments on the programmatic environmental impact report.

The workshops will be held Nov. 12, Dec. 10 and Jan. 21, 2010. All are from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. They will be held at the Shrine Event Center, 170 Lindbergh Ave., Livermore.

The draft EIR for the Livermore BART extension will be released at a meeting of the Tri-Valley Rail Policy Group at 1 p.m. Nov. 6 at the Livermore library. There will also be a scoping presentation about the Tri-Valley link to the state high speed rail project at the meeting.

The first BART public EIR hearing is set for Nov. 18 at 2 p.m. at the City Council Chambers, 3575 Pacific Ave., Livermore. A second hearing will be held at 6 p.m. on Dec. 2 at the Robert Livermore Community Center, 4444 East Avenue, Livermore.

The City of Livermore has been working with BART to study the possible future extension of BART into Livermore.

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 »