The SFCTA Board is being asked to make a policy decision in June that will chart the course for the Quint St Bridge Replacement project from here on out.

At community meetings held over the past six months, the community has been told that the berm/connector road plan may cost close to $30M, exceeding the $25M available for the project.  We have also been told that a value-engineered bridge that could accommodate a station at Oakdale Ave could be built for close to $30M.  If there is little to no cost difference, and the choice is to close Quint St, create a narrow connector road and eliminate at least 25% of the connectivity between Silver Terrace and Bayview, or keep Quint St open via a bridge at the Caltrain tracks as it is today, retaining all accessibility to and from our neighborhoods and ensuring access to a future station via roads that are sufficient to accommodate the expected traffic increase, then we strongly support the latter.

We, the residents and business owners in the Bayview and Silver Terrace neighborhoods who rely on Quint St remaining open, ask that the board's policy decision be that the ill-conceived berm/connector road option be taken off the table and that Caltrain be instructed immediately to design a cost-effective bridge that would accommodate a future station at the Oakdale Ave site.