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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 [...]

The Livermore City Council will be voting on a preferred alignment for BART at their regular meeting this coming Monday, April 26.  The meeting starts at 7 pm and will be held at the council chambers, 3575 Pacific Avenue. Supporters of a downtown BART (a relatively small but vocal group)have been packing the previous meetings.  [...]

We would not have to take 81 family homes of Livermore residents by eminent domain.* We would save the cost of moving numerous businesses along the “downtown” route. We would avoid 4 to 6 years of disruptive construction work on our city streets. A freeway route would keep more out-of-town traffic on the freeway and [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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!