Interesting article on proposed Livermore extension

Interesting article--thanks very much for sharing it and please keep them coming if you find more.

My two cents:

I'm glad to hear that BART made the choice to go to downtown Livermore, and to build a subway and subterranean station. IMNSHO, subterranean tracks and stations are totally worth the extra cost:

I lived within a couple hundred yards of the BART tracks twice in my life--once about halfway between Bay Fair and San Leandro, and once near the North Berkeley BART station. Underground BART tracks and stations are MUCH, MUCH more pleasant to live around. The house in San Leandro was NOISY because of BART. In fact one of the reasons I chose to live right near North Berkeley is because it's the only subterranean BART station in the east bay, and one of very few in the system, in a predominantly residential neighborhood.

So, a subterranean BART line allows for houses, businesses, parks, life as usual, whereas an overground lines or stations are so noisy that they're pretty much urban blight. Admittedly really useful urban blight, but still....