Comments on: FTA Holds Back on BART OAC Funding

By: FTA Rejects Federal Stimulus Funding for BART Oakland Airport Connector « Transbay Blog

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:29:22 +0000

[...] the day: even though BART and FTA have been working the past couple weeks on a plan to correct the Title VI deficiencies in BART’s Oakland Airport Connector project, today Peter Rogoff sent a letter to BART and MTC [...]

By: OAC Judgment Day is Postponed, But Draws Near « Transbay Blog

OAC Judgment Day is Postponed, But Draws Near « Transbay Blog — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:33:34 +0000

[...] community and advocacy groups — concerns that BART is now forced to confront, since they were directly echoed by FTA when FTA withheld the $70 million of ARRA funds pending BART’s completion of the Title VI [...]

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 16:51:51 +0000

One problem with BART using the Western Pacific RR right of way is the Coliseum Station stretch bypasses a huge stretch of East 14th St/International Boulevard. If BART were into serving local residents and providing equity, they’d have designed the Airport Connector to continue east of Coliseum Station to International Blvd and beyond. On the other hand, that would cost/waste more money and I agree with Eric and other commenters it would indeed have been better to spend $70 million on local transit operations.