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Oakland - January 2005
   

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Oakland — Trolley Proposal

Rail Transit Online, January 2005

A $300,000 study into a proposed circulator linking downtown Oakland with the Jack London Square restaurant and entertainment district has concluded that a streetcar loop was the best mode.  The state-funded analysis, conducted by BART beginning in 2001, was presented to the Alameda County Congestion Management Agency on Dec. 7.  Two other alternatives were discarded as too expensive: a new subway station near Fourth Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Way and an underground rail shuttle from the 12th Street BART station.  Two potential streetcar routes were found to be feasible, a 1.5-mi. (2.41 km), 12-station loop through Chinatown, Old Oakland and Jack London Square and a six-station line along Broadway from 20th Street.  The former would cost around $61 million while the latter would have a $38-million price tag.  It’s now up to local officials to decide if they want to proceed with the project and, if so, to identify funding. 

 

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