Thread: Menlo Park NIMBYs try to block bicycle/pedestrian bridge over Hwy 101
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Originally Posted by johnny99
Depends on your definition of "near future". They have been talking about a passenger rail service over this bridge for at least 20 years. I would be very surprised to see it happen anytime in the next 10 years. BART to San Jose has been sucking up all the available public transit money, causing many cheaper and more useful projects to be canceled.
I thought some of the rail bridge over the bay burned a few years ago and that put a damper on the whole project.
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