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When a person tells you it would take 40 years to get Bart to Solano county, I give the example China in 40 years built and entire high speed rail system and modern cities with futuristic cities, and the Eilffel tower built in 1897 took only 2 1/2 years as well as the Golden gate Bridge. The original Bart took only 10 years with all the stations and Trans Bay tube and tracks and the trains ,..So just to cross the water to Solano somehow it will take 4 times longer than the entire Bart system.

The original Bart system took 10 years to complete. More was done later.

Golden Gate Bridge built in 4 years .😂😂😂😂

Tokyo Disney was built in 2 1/2 years ,some ass whipe said it would take 50 years to build bart to Solano county.

Dude, why'd you stop making videos? This is incredibly well-made content! I think that with this level of quality you'd be a hit if you branched out to making more general content about Bay Area transit and urbanism or even just transit and urbanism in general! I hope to see more videos from you in the future! These are extremely good!

Excellent video! Thank you.

The California Forever proposed development could make for an interesting video.

Solano County doesn't want to Buy into the BART Extension system in the county, look at San Mateo County anf also Santa Clara county Bought into the BART Extension system under BART, the first extension into San Mateo County was that Samtrans and also BART paid for an extension from Daly City to Colma Ca, the Bus company almost went broke of paying their fair share of the construction costs and the project to get the line to SFO AIRPORT

I record trained as a zoom Fairfield every day always is an overpass I hope it really comes forward

SMART could connect to Contra Costa county at Richmond (Via the I 580 bridge) and take the CC tracks from there up to Solano. Also, Electrification and grade separation of CC from San Jose to Sacramento could also help create a new regional rail service from Sacramento to San Jose via 2 alignments, one passing through Transbay 2 to SF-San Mateo-Palo Alto and another along the existing Oakland-Hayward-Fremont alignment. These projects would have much more visible benefit than trying to spend billions on CA-HSR in the central valley.

I was surprised when I heard SMART train might go there, I thought it was odd.

pretty sure last time bart was safe to use was the 1990s. most long time bay area people think of bart now as old, dangerous (too many ghetto people). and most bay people aint used bart since 1990s. im 41 never been on a city bus ever.

I just checked this video out! Super cool that you covered this!

People: Can we have a West County BART extension? City of Hercules: We have a West County BART extension at home. *Bus stop (I'm sorry, "Transit Center") in an empty field and an Amtrak stop serving ferries no one will ever use*

can you go inside the house and record everything?

So I don’t see oak wood apartments…nothing new. U think the crest and it’s church gonna let people build there.

Solano may not get BART, but getting SMART seems more feasible, connect all of the North Bay. There’s just one more loose end to tie up. North Bay to East Bay. A.K.A Solano to Contra Costa

3:30 Callaghan Property Development should transform the terminal parking & waterfront parking B into the soon to be said “mixed properties”

I think that more commuter service on the Amtrak line is better and easier

ADD IN I80 has no alternate route to go around traffic. Bart to Smart is the real thing if it's connected across the delta to south bay area .

E BART is a joke. 40 years in paying for Bart and this is what they gave us.

Majority of people that were in favor of the toll hike were people from San Francisco and Peninsula that don't use the bridges. How is it fair that the people that need to travel and cross bridges to get to their jobs end up footing the entire bill for transportation improvements throughout the bay area.

great video

Sounds good except for the tirade against an underpass. That's definitely spoken by someone who doesn't regularly use these types of connections at all.

What project is being built by Columbus parkway and Sonoma boulevard

It be way awesome if there was a bart station that was next to Six Flags Discovery Kingdom.

But why not more trains?

This video puts the cart way too far ahead of the horse, and way behind reality. First, SMARTs ridership has been abysmal-under 800 daily riders in 2022-01-a decade and over $500 million since voters started funding the system. Fundamentally, both Sonoma and Solano counties are so car dependent that the car is the only practical means to travel point-to-point. This explain why SMART ridership is so low, why SolTrans bus connections to BART also have low ridership (but at far far lower capital and operating costs compared to rail), and why in spite of clogged highways between them, people won’t use public transit between Solano and North Bay. SMART project costs have run nearly double their most pessimistic projections. SMART has an abysmal record of connecting their services to other transit systems. After spending tens of millions of dollars to reach Larkspur, they don’t even bother to implement useful signage between train and ferry. In most of the world, trains and ferries offer coordinated connections that completes in 5 minutes, but at Larkspur, the connection takes an hour of longer. The counties should first try to connect Sonoma and Solano by bus, and if they can fill a bus every 30 minutes, then a train might have a chance. Even then, the cost of running a bus every 20 minutes would be far far cheaper, much more convenient, and can ge just as fast and comfortable as a train.

"Unacceptable!!!!!" LOLOL love this! Very interesting video.

They really need to build a spur into Vallejo. North Vallejo residents would have a really easy time using the American Canyon station, but everyone else in the city wouldn't have access. It seems like a major oversight.

They can build a direct line to Vallejo

Dual gauge tracks are a thing

Our planning department should be ashamed of what they are doing to Suisun. Wasting valuable waterfront property on unsightly hotels, eyesore carwashes are the first thing you see when u enter suisun, they welcome homeless to reside anywhere they want even setting up tents on our waterfront boardwalk, dollar stores, weed shops, check cashing stores coming next. They will approve anything that generates tax revenue. Our families suffer. If you're thinking about moving here i'd think twice.

Great information! Thanks for staying on top of things.

No Trader Joe's or Sprouts?

I thought you Bay Area people were so Green? A Diesel train, give me a break!Then you have to xfer to a 700VDC 3rd rail BART? What a convoluted system!

these videos are so in depth and helpful! Than you!

Yup, keep these vids comin 🔥 👌🏽

Great summary! Hope they build it ASAP - it would great to be able to route between Sonoma/Marin and the rest of the state without dealing with road traffic in either car or bus. Right now, there is no way to do that.

Boody diesel! Unbelievable!

Conventional BART to Hercules, and then wBART to Fairfield or Dixon?

I think BART should focus more on building a second Transbay Tube. The current one is old, and whenever it goes down for repairs, that causes a LOT of gridlock in the entire Bay Area.

Bart Extension should happen in the Solano County coming from the Richmond Line and the Antioch Line

In Pima County, Arizona there is a regional transportation authority that levies a nominal tax. The main player is the city of Tucson . . . about half of the population. They want (or at least the Mayor wants) to impose proportional voting in decisions. I think that outlying entities seeking inclusion (but are intimidated by costs) ought to remind the elephant in the room about how long they've ("outlying . . . ") been paying ALL taxes, about how long they've been law-abiding, about how long they've driven into town to contribute labors to the "elephants in the room". There are considerable equities that should not be forgotten.

Bart Extend Highway 4 To West Side Of Crockett

I like roadgeek content especially if it's produced as well as here.

Very satisfying video to watch! Northern California residents can be very proud to have a channel with transportation content dedicated just to them! And I am glad that this beautiful state is finally deciding to tackle its chronic housing shortage by the best means possible which is TOD (RIP SB50). Although last I checked there was no brt in Addis Ababa rather there is a two line light rail system under operation. Better Africa example would have been Dar es Salam or any major South African City accept Durban.

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ebart is a total joke. Waste of taxpayer money. You are crammed into little train cars and then have to get off and transfer to the real BART. Even though we paid the BART tax for decades, we got the toy trains.

Solano county doesn't have the population for BART...