Asking for money while working on huge expensive projects is a tough sell, and BART already has its plate full with a different huge expensive project in the BART San Jose extension, which currently has its own respective $9 billion price tag and is not expected to be completed until 2034. That site is still promoting the idea of “a new passenger rail crossing of the San Francisco Bay and other improvements.”īut BART has plenty of its own problems these days, with the Chron estimating their ridership is currently only 40% of pre-pandemic levels, and that “Updated ridership projections by BART show ridership at about 49% of pre-pandemic levels by 2025.” Plus they’re looking at an estimated $300 million deficit, and may be asking voters to approve more money the system. Trip Planner Service Advisory Free buses replace trains between Rockridge and Orinda stations this Saturday and Sunday (4/1-2) for track replacement work. A demand response program, BART’s philosophy is to find a way to say Yes to all callers either through direct service or through referrals to other appropriate transportation providers. The image above shows one of these concepts (the crossing could go above or beneath the water) and there are five other concepts shown in a scroll down menu on the Link21 website. Butler Area Rural Transit (BART) operates six days a week utilizing 17 wheel chair accessible buses and provides on average 275-300 trips per day. There is still the possibility of some sort of “Transbay Rail Crossing” that goes across the Bay. “So we will be advancing concepts with only BART or only regional rail in the crossing.” Image: Link21 Trip Planner Service Advisory Free buses replace trains between Rockridge and Orinda stations this Saturday and Sunday (4/1-2) for track replacement work. A short trip from downtown Berkeley to 19 th St./Oakland would increase five cents while a longer trip such as from Antioch to Montgomery would increase by 30 cents, said BART. “Building two new crossings - one for BART and one for regional rail - is not cost effective for the amount of demand we’re anticipating,” Link21 planner Chester Fung said in a Tuesday Link21 committee meeting, per the Chronicle. Riders can expect to see a 15 cent addition to the average fare of 3.78. But ridership on BART and other Bay Area rail agencies has declined dramatically since the pandemic, and planners say that the project won't generate enough ridership to justify the cost. Another transbay rail crossing has been discussed for decades.
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