The State - News from Aug. 18, 1988

Already traffic-clogged Bay Area highways figure to be even twice as congested with commuters by the year 2000, San Francisco planners warned in the city’s largest environmental report in history. The region is pumping out more jobs and people than present transit systems can handle, the new study said. It was conducted to gauge the effects the proposed $2-billion Mission Bay housing and office project at San Francisco’s China Basin waterfront would have over the next 30 years. The conclusion was that Mission Bay will have little impact. “Mission Bay isn’t the problem. Even downtown San Francisco isn’t the problem,” said Barbara Sahm, the report’s principle author. “Regional growth is the problem. . . .” The study calls for expanded bridges, another transbay BART tube and light-rail trains between San Francisco and Sonoma County.