Dead Snake to Cost BART $1.07 million
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Transit officials must pay more than $1 million for stopping construction on a project near the airport while wildlife officials investigated a rare dead snake at the site.
In all, $1.07 million will be paid by Bay Area Rapid Transit to the construction company.
Work on the BART extension project was halted for 18 days after an endangered San Francisco garter snake was discovered dead at the site. The snake, with a turquoise blue belly and vivid red and black stripes, is listed by the state as endangered.
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