“It’s a huge win for our riders down there in terms of convenience,” BART spokesperson Chris Filippi said Wednesday.
with transporting the large assembled truss portion of the bridge from Washington state to the site, due to unforeseen Caltrans work along the original route, and it had to be rerouted through Idaho and Nevada.
The construction cost of $30 million for the project was funded by the Alameda County Transportation Commission with Measure BB sales tax money, while about $11 million from Fremont’s capital improvement and traffic impact funds, covered the cost of city pre-construction work, according to the city. Filippi, of BART, noted that because of the pandemic, ridership has been down significantly, and it is difficult to predict how many people will be using the new bridge as ridership continues to rebound.
“It is in this burgeoning Innovation District and there’s so much activity going on there, that long term, there’s a lot of excitement about where that ridership is going to go,” Filippi said of the bridge.