The impact of the passage of the Bay Area's MTC-sponsored Regional Measure 3 state bridge tolls in June 2016 is not to increase the Bay's bridges or their capacity. "RM3"will fund, though not completely, projects for specific transit and highway capital "improvements" sold to voters to supposedly "ease" traffic congestion.
Among the transit items are to further fund the BART tunnel into San Jose's downtown Transit Hub station, then to Santa Clara near the Santa Clara University Caltrain station.
That will leave about 30 miles to finally close the BART Around The Bay loop that will create the 2-direction, doubling of BART capacity and redundant capability for BART users to reach their destination station.
This will only happen if/when the deadly suicide and accident-prone Caltrain trackway is replaced by BART for this final 30 miles.
Caltrain trackway death count has reached about 306 dead (latest Burlingame, Palo Alto-California Avenue, Sunnyvale-Mary Avenue) since the Peninsula and South Bay Democrat political machine decided to reveal in 1995 to reserve the Caltrain trackway only for a future High Speed Rail (as Quentin Kopp, plaintiff, entitles it: "Low Speed Rail" because the HSR will not reach anywhere near high speed from Gilroy to San Francisco).
Later in 2018 the HSR EIR will be released. The cunning Democrat machine has ensured that supportive city mayors in most Peninsula cities in the right-of-way were elected in 2016, Mayor Liz Kniss in Palo Alto, Lenny Seigel in Mountain View, Kirsten Keith in Menlo Park, Sam Liccardo in San Jose, etc.
More to come...
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