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Funds approved to study extension of Caltrain to downtown SF
By Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez on April 12, 2017 1:21 pm
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The San Francisco County Transportation Authority has approved funding toward the downtown extension of Caltrain, despite worries over the recent loss of federal funding for the agency’s much awaited electrification project.

It’s a small amount, just $5.4 million for the Transbay Joint Powers Authority toward preliminary engineering and a study on tunneling options, but commenters at Tuesday’s SFCTA meeting called it a major step forward for the imperiled Caltrain downtown extension.

“We need to maintain our commitment to it despite any threats from Washington,” said Peter Straus, a member of the San Francisco Transit Riders group, to the transportation authority . . . .

At Tuesday’s meeting the transportation authority, which is comprised of members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, took a cautious approach to even the small amount of funding toward the downtown extension given alleged mismanagement of funds by the Transbay Joint Powers Authority, according to Supervisor Aaron Peskin . . . .

(A) commenter, Jim Patrick, accused the board of “dallying” for four months on the relatively small funding amount to the second phase of the project.

To that critique, Peskin responded that the authority took the small amount of funding “very seriously, particularly in light of the fact that with all due respect phase one has been an absolute nightmare as respect to cost overruns, delays, and mismanagement” . . . .

http://www.sfexaminer.com/funds-appr...n-downtown-sf/

$20 million a year to run the Terminal? Aw yeah, they'll fork that over with no problem (not).