Feds Release $74.9 million for BART-SFO Extension.News Editors OAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 16, 2002 BART will receive $74.9 million from the federal government for construction of the $1.5 billion extension to San Francisco International Airport “SFO” redirects here. For other uses, see SFO (disambiguation). For the television series, see . . The funds are the latest installment of the $750 million Full Funding Grant Agreement that was approved in 1997. To date BART has received $371.2 million of the grant. The funds can only be used for construction of the airport extension. Additional money comes from BART's funding partners and includes $200 million from the San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden Airport; $152 million from the California Transportation Commission; $171 million from the San Mateo County Transit District (SamTrans); and $26.5 million from the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC mtc - A Modula-2 to C translator. ftp://rusmv1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/soft/Unixtools/compilerbau/mtc.tar.Z. ), and $183.1 million from BART. Work on the four-station, 8.7-mile extension is 95 percent complete, and it is scheduled to open in the late fall of this year. Workers are currently laying the last of the track, installing the electronics and train control equipment along the line, and finishing up the stations. Pictures of the Millbrae, San Bruno and SFIA SFIA Sea Fish Industry Authority (UK) SFIA San Francisco International Airport SFIA San Francisco Institute of Architecture SFIA South Florida Investigators Association SFIA Smoke Free Illinois Act SFIA Surplus Facility Inventory and Assessment stations grace the cover of SBC (1) (SBC Communications Inc., San Antonio, TX, www.sbc.com) A large, national telecommunications company that grew from a multitude of local and regional companies, including Southwestern Bell, Pacific Bell and Nevada Bell, into a single, unified brand by 2002. Pacific Bell's new San Mateo County Smart Yellow Pages telephone books. |
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