Institute of Transportation Engineers

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Institute of Transportation Engineers
Leadership Contra Costa 2005-06

• President Gail Murray
• February, 2008

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• BART 50 Years of History
• 35 Years of Service
• Thank You Bay Area!

1964 Construction Begins
1972 BART Carries First Passenger
1970 BART CarPrototype Created
1946 Discussions begin
1957 BART DistrictCreated
1962 Voters ApproveBART Plan
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BART Benefits The Region

• 5 Lines
• 104 Miles
• 43 Stations
• 4-County Service Area
• Alameda (19 Stations)
• Contra Costa (10 Stations)
• San Francisco (8 Stations)
• San Mateo (6 Stations)

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BART Keeps us Moving

• 360,000 average weekday riders.
• 100 million annual riders.
• 1.3 billion passenger miles annually.
• SFO average weekday ridership growth 23 since
  opening.
• 50 of the peak period/peak direction commuter
  traffic that goes across the Bay is by BART-- as
  many commuters as the Bay Bridge.
• Half of Oaklands downtown workers take BART to
  work each day.

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BARTs Role in Addressing Climate
Change Greenhouse Gas Emissions from
Transportation
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BART Improves the Environment

• BARTs 43 stations provide a regional backbone
  for additional Transit-Oriented Development (TOD)
  allowing people to live closer to transit and
  reduce Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) by 40.
• Riding BART helps the environment
• BART is 100 electric with majority of power
  coming from clean hydro sources.
• Commuting by BART instead of cars avoids spewing
  44 lbs of pollutants per passenger per day.
• BART riders get 250 mpg -- with total ridership
  daily saving 202,000 gallons of gas.
• Reduces regions carbon footprint BART riders
  save over 400,000 metric tons of CO2 annually.

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In the Bay AreaBART Improves the Environment
Thats 4.5 million blimps of CO2 saved per year.
Thank You BART Riders!
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2008 Challenges Opportunities

• Critical Core System
• Reinvestment Needs
• 2. Meeting Growing Ridership Demand
• 3. New Environmental Goals Opportunities

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System Reinvestment Building Capacity

• BART must upgrade many of its vital operating
  systems and infrastructure that have been in
  continuous operation since service began in 1972
• System reinvestment projects include
• Replace vehicles 669 rail cars
• Renovate railway propulsion power and ventilation
  systems
• Renovate/replace train control and communication
  systems
• Renovate/replace elevators and escalators
• Repair structural and architectural problems in
  stations
• Expand and reconfigure station access
• Improve tracks and platforms
• Renovation and replacement will require
  additional sources of funding

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BART Critical Reinvestment Needs

• 8 Billion 25-year reinvestment program
• Over 2 billion of BARTs funded capital
  reinvestment program comes through operator
  efforts
• BARTs capital shortfall is 2.4 billion

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A Growing Bay AreaCore System Capacity
Improvements are Essential
2025 Projections150 Increase In Bay Area
Traffic Congestion 1.6 Million more
People 1.2 Million more Jobs In BART four county
area 860,000 more people (up 22) 683,000
more jobs (up 32) Reinvestment is essential to
carry 500,000 daily riders!
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A Growing Bay AreaBART is Moving on Expansion

• New
• West-Dublin
• Pleasanton Station
• (opens 8/09)
• eBART
• Oakland Airport
• Connector
• (pictured at right)
• Warm Springs
• Extension
• (ultimately to
• San Jose)

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E-BART Connect The Regions Fastest Growing Area

• DMU technology
• SR 4 median alignment
• Stations
• Transfer Platform
• at Pittsburg/BP
• Railroad Ave (by others)
• Hillcrest Ave (terminus)
• Options include
• a median station or
• station north of the median

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Continuing the Partnership

• BART and the community must continue our
• historic partnership to
• FIX WHAT WE HAVE FIRST -- build on past
  investments.
• Increase BARTs capacity to meet a growing Bay
  Area.
• Educate the public and Bay Area policymakers
  about BARTs role in meeting new environmental
  goals by reducing greenhouse gas emissions and
  auto use in our region.