Post by Steven Dale
This is getting absurd:
In December of 2009, Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) announced that the Oakland Airport Connector would be a cable-propelled transit system.
This was a major victory for cable as the bids pitted cable technology provided by Poma and Doppelmayr against standard self-propelled technologies provided by Bombardier and Mitsubishi. That cable came out on top was important and a strong, rational choice.
But then in February of this year, the project was all but killed by a ruling by the FTA. The ruling said that BART was not in compliance with a Title 1V Civil Rights requirement. The project was therefore in limbo.
Late last month, however, reports arise that BART has located alternative funding sources and will proceed with the project. BART staffers are expected to present their new funding plan to the BART board as early as July 22nd.
We’ll make sure to keep you updated the next time this project gets killed and subsequently resurrected. And killed and subsequently resurrected. And killed and subsequently resurrected . . .
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