A supplemental environmental impact report (SEIR) has just been issued for the extension of BART to San Jose. Planners say the 16.1-mile extension will cost a whopping $4.7 billion, yet they project that it will increase local transit ridership by only 2 percent.
By coincidence, $4.7 billion just happens to be the cost of Denver’s FasTracks plan, which is supposed to build about 119 new miles of rail lines plus busways for 18 miles of bus-rapid transit. San Jose taxpayers are obviously not getting much for their money.
