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412 Presentation , San Mateo County Transit Development Project - Draft Route Location Report . Mr . Roy Snyder , Project Coordinator , who spoke for Mr . Cantwell , Jr . , County Engineer and Project Director, briefly commented on the origin and background of the San Mateo County Transit Development Project . He noted this project was to do the preliminary planning of a BART type extension from the S . F . International Airport to the vicinity of Menlo Park . Mr . Snyder cited several basic alternatives studied for the County of San Mateo , as far as mass transit , such as more and "better free- ways " ; a second deck on the Bayshore , or a Bay Front Freeway ; upgrade Southern Pacific line ; or to build a BART type system . He mentioned the study effort had been underway since August 1 , 1972 . Mr . Snyder noted that San Mateo County wanted to know what the cost would be for a total system, not with the viewpoint of implementing such a system but what this type of system would be like if they were to enter into negotiations with the City and County of San Frans cisco and with BART . He commented that the Draft Report recommended some 17 . 4 miles of route alignment between the Airport through Millbrae , Burlingame , San Mateo down through Menlo Park and that eight stations had roughly been laid out , a possible yard and also three alternative terminal station locations . Mr . Snyder then introduced Bill Lathrop , Project Manager for the firm of Parsons Brinckerhoff-Tudor-Bechtel , Con- sultant for the BART Project , who reiterated Mr . Snyder ' s comments along with noting in greater detail the up-to-- date Draft Route Location Report that had been presented to the San Mateo County Transit Development Board for review and consideration of an aerial line through Redwood City and an aerial station just north of Jefferson, with the probability of a parking facility located toward the El Camino side . During the question and answer period, it was brought out that because of the investment of capital facilities of the magnitude of this project , it would have to be approved in some form by public vote by whatever the County policy would be . It was also noted that by late September-October of 1973 , the Consultants expect to be able to come up with a complete cost estimate from the engineering design standpoint , and including the right-of- way acquisition to get the system in operation . At this point , Mr . Cantwell advised that the firm of Williams -Kuebelbeck & Associates , Inc . , had been hired as financial consultants to present a proposed financial arrangement that would have to be made , after the Board had negotiated with the BART Board, to go along with the BART estimate which would bring the vote before the people sometime in the Spring of 1975 . He hoped that at this time the Metropolitan Transportation Commission would also have their study completed regarding the up- grading of Southern Pacific along with the extension of BART . Public hearings would be held when the study had been narrowed down to one route , and a definitive align- ment and costs and when the Board arrived at the method of acquiring this money needed to implement the plan . It was noted , taking into consideration that to complete the entire system and for it to be in operation, BART would be doing this in phases , it would probably be sometime in 1985-87 , at least , before completion, pro- viding funding was available * Mr . Cantwell expressed the San Mateo County Transit Development Board ' s wish to give each community every opportunity to be informed and make comment upon the currently recommended route locations and , thus aid the Board in its review process . Mayor Keckley thanked Mr . Cantwell for his presentation . 6/4/7 3 Reg . Mtg .