A New Bridge? Second BART Tube? Here’s How You Might Pay for It

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BART is the designated project sponsor in the measure’s enabling legislation, and most assume that $50 million would go to building a second transbay tube. Creative Commons image by Flickr user

KQED News Fix

Earlier this month, Sen. Dianne Feinstein and East Bay Congressman Mark DeSaulnier wrote to officials at the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and told them that they needed to start planning for a new vehicular and rail crossing between the Peninsula and East Bay.

Feinstein and DeSaulnier  suggested that planning should start under the auspices of Regional Measure 3, a pitch to Bay Area voters to increase bridge tolls by as much as $3 to raise money for dozens of transportation projects.

Read the story at KQED News Fix.

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