Authorities Rethinking Expanding BART Lines
New ridership projections from a local transportation agency suggest that extending Bay Area Rapid Transit lines to San Jose would have almost no impact on the area’s traffic problems, leading authorities to question whether the region should scale back or even eliminate its plans to invest $4.1 billion in the transit system.
A report commissioned by the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority said that by 2025, two out of three seats on BART trains to San Jose would remain empty, while traffic would remain jammed.
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