The plan to expand BART service — with a second tube possibly running from Oakland, through Alameda, to San Francisco and another expansion into the western half of the city — depends on a lot of moving parts, a lot of unallocated funding and patience, as any major developments are likely many years away, said Ellen Smith, acting manager for the transit agency.
“Any sort of expansion would take multiple decades and multiple billions” of dollars, she said, putting the timeline and funding necessary into perspective. “We’ve really just scratched the surface.”
But as the population of the Bay Area continues to climb and more people opt for public transit — weekday transbay ridership has swelled 12 percent in the past two years, according to agency figures from September — something has got to give.
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