Is the BART in San Francisco will continue building to the bay area?

Question

For example, El Cerrito to Vallejo?

For example, El Cerrito Bart up to Vallejo?

Answer 1

El Cerrito to Vallejo is very unlikely. There's already a ferry running from Vallejo to Downtown San Francisco, where you can transfer to BART quite easily. Solano County doesn't pay any BART taxes either. So, it's not entitled to a BART station.

There's one new station currently under construction: West Dublin/Pleasanton (blue line -- opens 2008). But that's an in-fill station, so there's no new track involved. There are plans to extend that line to Livermore as well, but that's not where they're putting their resources at the moment.

They really want to extend the orange/green lines down to San Jose. But so far, they've only secured funding from Congress for two new stations: Irvington and Warm Springs (2013). This means they're going to stop construction right before Milpitas, unless they can convince Speaker Pelosi to give them more money.

Answer 2

there are currently no plans that I am aware of to extend to Vallejo. Partly because of the Amtrak Capital Corridor and the Ferry that currently serve Fairfield and Vallejo. I would love it if they did run the train up to the napa area. The south bay and east bay are the areas that will really see improvement. Especially the Fremont and Dublin areas. Dublin's new station will be done in 2009. And Warm Springs tenatively has a completion date of 2013.

El Cerrito already has a station...it runs all the way to Richmond now. It would be more likely that that any north bound route would go up through sonoma county along the 101 corridor.

Answer 3

Think the current plan is to extend south from Fremont - through San Jose, then north up the peninsula to Millbrae (or whatever the southmost stop is). They want to circle the Bay - then, who knows? Personally, I think extending it up the 80 corridor toward Vallejo is a smarter, much more needed extension. I don't think there's any question that the 80 corridor is the absolute worst.

Answer 4

Some projects are up for evaluation, no schedules for construction:

Fremont to Warm Spings may extend to San Jose.
Dublin/pleasaton to Livermore
Pittsburgh/Bay point to Antioch

Answer 5

Doubtful at this point. The people up there would love the convenience of it, but every time it's been proposed, they don't want new taxes imposed to pay for it. So for the north bay, I'd say no way.

Answer 6

The main plan in the works is to extend it to Silicon Valley, but it keeps hitting snags:
http://www.svrtc-vta.org/projectoverview.asp

Here's the full list of extensions that are still in the "looking at" phase:
http://www.mtc.ca.gov/library/PIP/app5.htm