BART is rebuilding and reinvesting throughout the BART system. Measure RR was a $3.5 billion bond measure approved by Bay Area voters in 2016 to fund critical safety, reliability, and infrastructure improvements for BART. The measure focuses on rebuilding the system’s aging core infrastructure, including replacing worn tracks, upgrading power systems, modernizing train control, and enhancing tunnel and station structures.
The Measure RR Expenditure Plan is divided into eight categories:
- Renew Track (2017-2028): Goal to replace 90 miles of track systemwide to improve reliability. Reprofiling track to reduce wear and noise.
- Renew Power Infrastructure (2017-2030): Replacing 34.5 kV cables and power substations to ensure trains have reliable source of electricity
- Repair Tunnels and Structures (2017-2037): Enhance system safety by replacing and reinforcing critical infrastructure, including the Transbay Tube
- Renew Mechanical Infrastructure (2017-2037): Improve reliability by replacing third rail, coverboards, and other key track components.
- Renew Stations (2017-2037): Modernizing station entries, escalators, and overall layouts to improve safety and flow of riders.
- Train Control Modernization (2017-2030): Implement Communications-Based Train Control to safely run more trains closer together.
- Relieve Crowding, Increase System Redundancy, and Reduce Traffic Congestion (2017-2037): Lay groundwork for New Transbay Rail Crossing. Create redundancy with new car storage yard.
- Access Improvements (2017-2030): Projects that make it easier to walk, bike, and carpool to BART stations.
Refer to BART website for more project information:
https://www.bart.gov/rebuilding/projects