Bay Bridge status:

[randomness]

Still closed.

(BART will run overnight again Saturday night through Sunday morning if Caltrans doesn't open the bridge before 3PM Saturday.)

Comments

[mangosteen]

...and reading the "Projects" section of the website, it seems pretty obvious that the plan really is to keep going around the bay, and pressure SamTrans into letting them complete the loop.

[hotpoint.livejournal.com]

The biggest issue with that is that BART has its eyes on the CalTrain right of way for connecting Millbrae with Santa Clara, which is the only way the California High Speed Rail can get in to San Francisco. The neighborhoods protesting HSR would be apoplectic over HSR+BART.

I think BART becomes redundant when you have four tracks of smooth electrified mainline rails and CalTrain buys EMUs.