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Only for the route to Marin, which Marin didn’t want and was never built.

• wpietri 4y ago
  That's not what the article says: "On aerial trackways during high wind events – which the engineers knew were not uncommon in places such as Contra Costa County -- the light BART cars could potentially tip over, the engineers hypothesized."
  • bastawhiz 4y ago
    It does say later that it was also a consideration for running BART on the lower deck of the golden gate bridge.
    • wpietri 4y ago
      Yes, I was objecting to the false "only".
• mjg59 4y ago
  Marin /did/ want it, but after the Golden Gate Bridge authority insisted that the bridge couldn't support the extra deck needed for BART there was a risk that if Marin were part of BART they'd be on the hook for the money without ever receiving service. That, unsurprisingly, reduced enthusiasm - and if a reduction in the Marin vote had dropped the overall bond vote below the required 60 percent, none of the system would have been built, so Marin was kicked out.