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- From: lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich)
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- Subject: Re: The Rebuilding of the Wrecked West Oakland I-880 Segment
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.062920.23451@s1.gov>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 06:29:20 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug16.222841.23030@news.arc.nasa.gov> mcmahon@tgv.com writes:
- >
- >In article <1992Aug15.032831.18159@s1.gov>, lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich) writes:
-
- :(about the I-880 section along Cypress in Oakland...)
-
- := Now, it will be rebuilt, as I have learned from recent
- :=newspaper stories (for example, _The San Francisco Examiner_, Aug. 13,
- :=1991, p. A4)
-
- := The original 1.25 mi. stretch will be rebuilt for about $695
- :=million. The job will be started in January 1994, and the rebuilt
- :=freeway segment should open in 1998.
-
- :I suspect those folks who were forced onto other routes because of the
- :loss of I-880 will be happy to hear it's on the way back. I doubt the
- :folks in that Oakland neighborhood will be happy, I think the area
- :looks and sounds a lot nicer without I-880 going through it.
-
- I agree. But there will be that replacement SP/Amtrak rail
- line coming through, although it will certainly not be some
- double-decker elevated structure. I'm sure that the trains, even with
- their diesel engines and their horns, will be better neighbors than
- that freeway.
-
- :However, they called a smog alert for the Silicon Valley today and
- :I begin to wonder whether or not that $700 million should have
- :been used to improve public transit in that region and get
- :more people out of their cars.
-
- I agree. That replacement freeway costs more than the BART
- extension under construction to Dublin ($570 million for 11 miles),
- and will be 8 times more expensive per unit length. For this money,
- one could get a BART extension out to Livermore, or else build a new
- light-rail system somewhere.
-
- /Loren
-