>>2015029That would have been incredibly stupid, BART is barely more efficient than the Key System, and if anything you could have joined the bridge railway with new subway tunnels on the Oakland side to convert it to full heavy rail and it would have been much cheaper than BART.
But apparently it is true that they were quite bent on getting the trains off the bridge so they could split up road traffic onto the upper and lower decks. Which is still pretty ridiculous, they could have just had three lanes in each direction on the upper and lower decks, and then two segregated bus lanes on the upper deck, which would have worked better than the six lanes on top and three bus and truck lanes on the bottom. tl;dr auto lobby was too powerful
