The initial system opened in stages from 1972 to 1974.
With an average of 146,500 weekday passengers as of the fourth quarter of 2022 and 41,286,400 annual passengers in 2022, BART is the fifth-busiest heavy rail rapid transit system in the United States.īART is operated by the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District which formed in 1957. BART serves 50 stations along six routes and 131 miles (211 kilometers) of track, including a 9-mile (14 km) spur line running to Antioch, which uses diesel multiple-unit vehicles, and a 3-mile (4.8 km) automated guideway transit line serving the Oakland International Airport. Asking for money while working on huge expensive projects is a tough sell, and BART already has its plate full with a different huge expensive project in the BART San Jose extension, which currently has its own respective $9 billion price tag and is not expected to be completed until 2034.Bay Area Rapid Transit ( BART) is a rapid transit system serving the San Francisco Bay Area in California. That site is still promoting the idea of “a new passenger rail crossing of the San Francisco Bay and other improvements.”īut BART has plenty of its own problems these days, with the Chron estimating their ridership is currently only 40% of pre-pandemic levels, and that “Updated ridership projections by BART show ridership at about 49% of pre-pandemic levels by 2025.” Plus they’re looking at an estimated $300 million deficit, and may be asking voters to approve more money the system. The image above shows one of these concepts (the crossing could go above or beneath the water) and there are five other concepts shown in a scroll down menu on the Link21 website. There is still the possibility of some sort of “Transbay Rail Crossing” that goes across the Bay. “So we will be advancing concepts with only BART or only regional rail in the crossing.” Image: Link21 “Building two new crossings - one for BART and one for regional rail - is not cost effective for the amount of demand we’re anticipating,” Link21 planner Chester Fung said in a Tuesday Link21 committee meeting, per the Chronicle. But ridership on BART and other Bay Area rail agencies has declined dramatically since the pandemic, and planners say that the project won't generate enough ridership to justify the cost. Another transbay rail crossing has been discussed for decades.
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