Re: MTA & BART Long Range Transportation plan

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From: Silas Warner
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 18:44

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Alan Michelson wrote:
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> So I noticed that Berkeley had the BART buried underground within the city
> limits.  Affluent neighborhoods probably have extra tax money to build the
> tunnels for rapid transit.

Berkeley got BART buried, and detoured to Shattuck and University, after a
residents' revolt nixed BART's original plan and almost blocked the
Richmond line entirely.  BART originally intended to put a station and huge
parking lot, like North Berkeley, near University Avenue and Sacramento St.
This would have wiped out about two blocks of housing around the site of
the present Santa Fe Grill, and the tracks would have been elevated along
the Santa Fe ROW as they are in Albany and El Cerrito.

Berkeley was seen as a big parking lot by BART planners, and the city refused
to take that role alone.  They insisted on a station under their business
center, and in exchange let BART carve out two blocks at Sacramento and
Delaware streets for its mandatory parking lot.

							Silas Warner

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