BART to San Jose/Santa Clara Measure B
There's an interesting discussion of the BART to San Jose project and the impact that Measure B will have on that effort on the Mercury News site today.
Unfortunately, I moved out of Santa Clara County a few months ago, so I won't get to vote for it, but I really hope that the voters down there see the value and sense in this proposal and approve it. As a "special tax" it requires a 2/3rds vote, so it will be a high hurdle, but I'll keep my fingers crossed.
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Measure B passed with 66.78%
Measure B passed with 66.78% approval, .11% above the 2/3 requirement. The Santa Clara VTA says construction will begin 2010 and revenue service will start in 2018.
Lovely news--thanks for
Lovely news--thanks for letting me know. (Only 10 more years!)
"revenue service will start
"revenue service will start in 2018"
but when will it be complete?
Here's VTA's current schedule
Here's VTA's current schedule on the project:
November 2008: Citizens of Santa Clara County to vote on 1/8th cent sales tax for operations and maintenance of BART
December 2008: Complete 65% Engineering
Early 2009: Draft federal environmental document (EIS) anticipated for public review and comment
Spring 2009: Enter federal New Starts process
Fall 2009: Final federal environmental document (EIS) anticipated approval
2009-2010: Advanced Design Phase
2010-2017: Construction Phase
2018: Service begins
since they are building
since they are building multiple stations on the way to San Jose, you would assume they will open them in sequence like they have done to every other extension.
So does "Service begins" refer to the San Jose station or to the first of the new stations on the San Jose line?
Service begins refers to all
Service begins refers to all six planned stations on the line. If the measure failed there was talk about building the extension right up to before the portal to the downtown subway segment, to finish at a later time. However, since Measure B passed, this is no longer the case.
In case you haven't seen the proposed alignment, check it out.