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#21 CNJRoss

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Posted 15 June 2019 - 06:24 PM

The Mercury News, 6/14/19:
 

BART’s new train cars will be built in the Bay Area, thanks to new Bombardier plant

 

The move is a boon for the East Bay city of Pittsburg, where the plant will be located

 

 

PITTSBURG — Beginning this fall, BART’s new train cars will all be Bay Area-made.

 

The company that makes the cars, Canada-based Bombardier, Inc., is moving into a Hatachi-owned warehouse on Loveridge Drive in Pittsburg, company representatives said Friday.

 

Bombardier is leasing 122,750 square feet of the facility, with Hitachi retaining about 67,000 square feet, said Kolette Simonton, Pittsburg’s assistant director of economic development. Bombardier will start with around 50 new jobs at the Pittsburg plant in September, when crews are expected to begin work on BART’s cars, eventually ramping up to 115 employees within five years, she said.

 

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Posted 15 January 2024 - 02:51 PM

Metro, 1/12/24

 

BART's 'Fleet of the Future' Projected to Come In

Under Budget

 

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The original delivery schedule called for the delivery of 10 cars a month, but BART worked with Alstom to increase the rate to 16 cars a month, saving more than $100 million.

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San Francisco BART’s Fleet of the Future trains are now not only carrying riders on all regularly scheduled trips, but the project also is coming in hundreds of millions of dollars under budget thanks to tight project management, according to the agency.

 

 

Thanks to a revised schedule, and an accelerated monthly delivery rate of new railcars, the project is expected to cost $394 million less than when the contract was awarded in 2012.

 

“There’s no question the Fleet of the Future project is a success story,” said Project Manager John Garnham. “Riders love the newer, cleaner modern feel of the cars and now we have great budget news for the project.”

 

 

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