![]() Later on it was expanded in different stages until it reached Pittsburg in 1996, Dublin/Pleasanton in 1997, San Francisco’s international airport in 2003 and Oakland’s international airport in 2014. The construction of the BART project started in 1964, opening the first line between MacArthur and Fremont in 1972. This tunnel is known in the present day as the Transbay Tube. For this reason, the solution would become a complex but efficient engineering project that would include an underwater tunnel that would be used exclusively by the metro system. One of the principal needs was to connect Oakland to San Francisco in order to clear the congestion made in Bay Bridge. ![]() This entity would be the one in charge of the project and would originally include the counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco, San Mateo and Marin but San Mateo county desisted on being part of the project, forcing Marin County to do the same. The idea of a metro system for the San Francisco Bay area started with the creation of Bay Area Rapid Transit District. ![]()
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