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October 6, 2010 - A joint venture of Flatiron and Parsons, with Doppelmayr Cable Car as technology supplier and Turner Construction Company as a major subcontractor, has been awarded a contract by the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) for the Oakland Airport Connector (OAC) Design-Build/Operate and Maintain project. Construction is expected to begin in late 2010 and take 3.5 years to complete.
More than 25 years
in planning, the $361 million automated people mover project will
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"Flatiron is proud
to be leading this project," said Curt Weltz, president of the company?s
Western Region. "Because of the local unemployment environment, we
recognize the importance of not only delivering a high-quality transit
project, but also of helping to create employment opportunities in Once built, the connector will replace the AirBART busses that often are often held up in traffic. The APMs will offer swift, reliable service because they will be run on a fixed, elevated guideway above the congestion. The APMs will arrive at the Coliseum BART Station every 4.5 minutes and will quickly transport air travelers to the airport in about 8 minutes with an on-time performance exceeding 99 percent.
Tom Barron,
Parsons Group president said that "Parsons is pleased to continue our
nearly 50-year participation in Bay Area transit planning, design, and
construction. Like many people in the region, we have been waiting for
this project for a long time. It will be a great benefit to BART and the ?Cable-driven urban transportation has a long and rich history in the Bay Area,? remarked Doppelmayr Cable Car CEO Stephan Wabnegger. ?We look forward to adding BART OAC to our growing list of world-class cable propelled APMs.?
?Turner is proud
to be part of another project that will serve the local community and
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