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Cost estimates ranged up to US$2,500,000,000 (equivalent to $4,720,000,000 in 2024), drawing funding from a 1/2-cent sales tax increase in San Mateo County. [57] BART leadership warned the timing was not appropriate for a push further south into San Mateo County, and SAMCEDA withdrew the proposal by the summer of 1999. [58]
The current Caltrain system map. Caltrain is a commuter rail transit system that serves the San Francisco Peninsula and the Santa Clara Valley in the U.S. state of California.It is operated under contract by TransitAmerica Services and funded jointly by the City and County of San Francisco, San Mateo County Transit District (SamTrans), and Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA ...
Minor service at Palo Alto near San Mateo County had also been planned originally. In 2000, Santa Clara County voters approved a 30-year half-cent sales tax increase to fund BART, [14] which took effect in April 2006. To make up for a shortfall in projected federal funding, an increase in the sales tax by 0.125 percent was proposed if ...
VTA's longest and most-used bus route is the 22, which connects VTA's Eastridge Transit Center in East San Jose with the Caltrain station in Palo Alto, which serves as a transfer point for SamTrans buses from San Mateo County. Line 22, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, was the only line with 24-hour, 7 days-per-week service, including night bus ...
SamTrans (stylized as samTrans; officially the San Mateo County Transit District) is a public transport agency in and around San Mateo, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. It provides bus service throughout San Mateo County and into portions of San Francisco and Palo Alto .
San Mateo County (/ ˌ s æ n m ə ˈ t eɪ. oʊ / ⓘ SAN mə-TAY-oh), officially the County of San Mateo, is a county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 764,442. [8] Redwood City is the county seat, [9] the third-most populated city in the county after Daly City and San Mateo.
The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District was formed by the state legislature in 1957, comprising the counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, and San Mateo. Because Santa Clara County opted instead to first concentrate on its Expressway System, that county was not included in the original BART District. In 1959 a bill ...
The Yellow Line was extended to North Concord/ Martinez in 1995, and to Colma and Pittsburg/ Bay Point in 1996. BART's fifth route, the Blue Line, began service with a new branch to Dublin/ Pleasanton in 1997. The San Mateo County line was extended south from Colma to San Francisco International Airport and Millbrae in 2003. [4]