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Quoting from the Livermore Independent newspaper:

The Livermore City Council voted unanimously to recommend that a BART extension to Livermore go underground through the downtown and at grade to Vasco Road.

If funding could not be obtained for a downtown station, the council’s vote included the recommendation to extend BART to Vasco Road. A Vasco station would be near the national laboratories and the area where Livermore anticipates that a large number of jobs will be generated at the i-Hub. The state has designated Livermore as an i-Hub, a center for innovation.

The final decision on a BART extension alignment will be made by the BART board. The decision is expected to made in June.

You can read the full article here.

Here’s a link to the video of the Livermore City Council meeting on 4/26/2010. It is about 4hrs long mostly citizen comments. The council vote and discussion starts at 3hrs 14 minutes and goes for about 30 minutes.

We congratulate the Livermore City Council on this bold, forward-looking decision. We thank the Planning Commission and City Engineers for their hard work on this matter. We request the City of Livermore and other agencies to put forth detailed plans to address the concerns of the citizens adversely impacted by these stations in the years ahead. Good luck to the City of Livermore in crossing the next hurdles and getting funding for the BART stations it so deserves.