Comments on: Should San Jose Come First?

By: Edward

Edward — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:13:33 +0000

i’ll be soon a livermore resident. But, I’ve been a Dublin resident for over a decade. I know how the traffics looks like on I-580 from Dublin to Livermore. It’s just like a nighmare daily including weekends. If you don’t believe, come over and take rider on I-580, you’ll know what I’m talking about.

Go Livermore BART!
Edward

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 01:53:55 +0000

San Jose had its chance a long time ago to be part of Bart, and
they voted it down. The cost then for them to come in would have
be peanuts to what is cost now.

Shame on them. Now they want to be the big bully who thinks he can
cut in front of the line. Fine, get in line like you should have years ago,
only get in the back and wait your turn just like everybody else has had to do.

PS. Go Sharks !

By: Lin

Lin — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:26:38 +0000

The only way to attract more companies to move to Livemore is to build BART. Otherwise, most people have no way to get there to work.

By: Lin

Lin — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:24:21 +0000

If Livemore BART is there, there’s no traffic in I-580 in both directions any more. Everybody will be happy about it and benefits from it.

By: Les

Les — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 13:26:07 +0000

One reason there probably won’t be a BART Livermore station is because government officials realize that it’s the non-paying folks from the Central Valley that will be taking BART.
As for the cost of $100 million per mile to bring BART to Livermore, does anyone remember county Supervisor Ed Campbell and his eventual victory to buy the median right of way for $1 mile? Later, in Congress, Rep. Richard Pombo derided Campbell as a communist because BART’s right–away cost the county only $1 per mile.

By: skweaker

skweaker — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 04:11:59 +0000

So they started this construction between the eastbound and westbound traffic.. instead of building the bart we’ve paid for for so long they are putting in a commute lane. More lanes is great and all, but that space could be better used for mass transit for those that need it.

By: Lin

Lin — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:28:30 +0000

No.
Becauset San Jose has Caltrain.

By: Mike Fogel

Mike Fogel — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 06:53:53 +0000

I’m a strong supporter of BART to downtown Livermore.

I’d like to point out though, that if you don’t live/work in Livermore, you don’t really directly benefit from the extension of BART to Livermore. There are definite secondary benefits (less cars on the roads etc), but these are secondary.

However, the extension to San Jose is different. People go to San Jose. People from all over the bay work in San Jose. An extension to San Jose has substantial direct benefit to everyone from the suburban family out in Pleasant Hill to the yuppie in the condo in SOMA. That’s something an extension to Livermore doesn’t provide.

So while residents of Livermore have indeed been paying for BART for 44 years without getting any service, this is a regional transit system. If we don’t reflect this in our priorities – we’re left with an expensive system that doesn’t go anywhere. That’s no benefit to anyone, resident of Livermore or not.

By: tom g

tom g — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 03:32:28 +0000

I have never found BART to be a very efficient means of my transportation because it is expensive, and everything connecting to it is even more expensive and slower. I’ve done my math, and spending money on gas and insurance is cheaper AND faster.

BUT I have now started to work in Livermore, and in fact quite close to where BART owns land. If BART were to start building there soon, I would postpone my plans to move to Livermore from the Bayfair area of San Leandro. It would be the first convenient commute on BART I will ever have seen. Tracy and Stockton should be on the rout also.

BART IS TOO LOUD. It hurts my ears to ride the train, and it hurts my ears when I have worked next to the tracks. This is the biggest/only design flaw in BART. Oh, and its expensive.

By: Barbara Mallon

Barbara Mallon — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 23:52:01 +0000

I am very concerned that the proposed HOV lanes for I580 between Greenville and Hacienda will destroy our chances of getting BART. (You can send an Email to Jean Hart, Deputy Director of Planning at Jhart@accma,ca,gov.) The Dublin/Pleasanton station is a Park and Ride station. One at Greenville with lots of parking would not only get Livermore residents to their Bay Area destinations but also get Altamont travelors off the freeway. There should also be an ACE train stop at the same location.

We were supposed to be part of the original system. Livermore should have BART before San Jose and East Contra Costa County. They should buy into the system paying for our station and tracks.