![]() The yellow line runs from Antioch to Millbrae and San Francisco International Airport. Westbound riders also can start their BART trip at the MacArthur, Rockridge or West Oakland stations, Allison said, adding that all of those stations have parking spaces available. Allison did not indicate it would be ready at any point Tuesday.Īllison said riders seeking to cross the Transbay Tube on the Richmond line can take an Orange line Berryessa-bound train and transfer to a yellow line San Francisco-bound train. There was no time estimate for when it would be open again. ![]() “Problems persist on the lines between MacArthur (station) and Richmond,” Allison wrote in an email Tuesday morning. The orange line, which runs from the Berryessa station to Richmond, was operating with limited service, he said. The problem, which originated Monday, kept BART’s red line, which runs between SFO and Richmond, completely shut down, BART spokesman Jim Allison said Tuesday morning. Including eBART into these discussions would be useful for BART, although I'm not sure how exactly that would be done.Limited service on BART’s Richmond line continued into its second straight day Tuesday, as repair crews continued to work on an electrical outage at a substation. These crop up periodically with the East Bay Hub concept envisioned for Union City, a concept that exists because Union City seems willing to subsidize it with their tax money. Personally again opinion follows Fremont is about to become this and there needs to be more discussion in Fremont in how they're going to coordinate future BART, ACE, Valley Rail and Caltrain services. Those places tend to be heavily urbanized zones. All of these problems come together with the Dumbarton rail bridge.Īnd this isn't to put down BART's regular rolling stock, but it needs to be used well in places that are best equipped for it. I also think BART can do something entirely new like building a proper mass transit network for Stockton, which would be adapted for the North Bay and San Jose. I suppose a two-track BART because it's what locals are willing to support, and eBART can be upgraded into full-size heavy-rail trains when they're ready. BART was always destined to be predominantly for SF/Oakland residents, figuring out the suburbs was always going to be a very tricky problem. I need to note that I'm not blaming any specific town or city in particular. If Caltrain ran there and dead-ended at De Anza College (plausible, because there is still a railroad track there used once a week for the Quarry), would anyone use it? What if we used eBART, which could theoretically use either VTA or UP track? To be fair, the same applies to Caltrain service south of Diridon along the VTA Winchester line. BART should be using the same competitive strategy, if towns aren't using BART then why should BART stop there? And if a lot of them aren't using BART, why not run much cheaper eBARTs? It's why Caltrain moved the Hillsdale station a few hundred feet north to it's present location. Vice versa, Caltrain is studying how to do a Fair Oaks station and (if their Dumbarton bridge is rebuilt) another station at Middlefield Rd. To use a completely different example, Caltrain doesn't run trains to Atherton or Paul Av anymore because neither of them had the patronage or wanted to increase it. I'm also an eBART fanboy and I beilive most of Alameda and Contra Costa Counties would be better served by an eBART-like setup, on the basis that it would give them mass transportation proportional to how they actually utilize it. I'm certain someone could come up with a rider:resident ratio based on each station's average resident density but in my view (so, unsolicited opinion follows) it'd inform us that many BART stations are not valued by the towns they serve proportional to the cost it takes to run BART trains through them. Otherwise, connecting Pleasanton and Walnut Creek to SFO seems equally important to connecting downtown SF together.
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