What did the BART District report as the total cost of the original BART system, completed in 1974?
Bay Area Rapid Transit, BART, is the rapid transit system of the San Francisco Bay Area. It opened for revenue service on 11 September 1972 and the Transbay Tube opened two years later, in 1974, completing the original system. The BART District's system facts page gives the total cost of the original BART system as 1,619,000,000 dollars, funded by the 792 million dollar 1962 general obligation bond, 330 million dollars of federal capital grants, bridge-toll bonds, sales tax revenue and other income.
Final project cost
$1.619 billion
Cost basis: 1974
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