Editing Dumbarton Bridge (California) (section)

==Dumbarton Rail Bridge==
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[[Image:Dumbarton Bridge1.jpg|right|thumb|Dumbarton Rail Bridge in 2007, as seen from a kayak]]
Just to the south of the car bridge lies the '''Dumbarton Rail Bridge'''. Built in 1910, the rail bridge has been unused since 1982 and its western approach collapsed in a fire in 1998.<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://www.paloaltoonline.com/weekly/morgue/news/1998_Jan_7.FIRE.html|title = FIREFIGHTERS: Dumbarton rail bridge destroyed|publisher = Paloaltoonline.com|date = 1998-01-07|access-date = 2015-05-25|last = Kazak|first = Don|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20040814110454/https://www.paloaltoonline.com/weekly/morgue/news/1998_Jan_7.FIRE.html|archive-date = 2004-08-14|url-status = live}}</ref> When the bridge was in use, boaters would signal the operator, who would start a diesel engine and rotate the bridge to the open position on a large gear. The bridge is now left in the open position as shown. There are plans for a new rail bridge and rehabilitation of the rail line to serve a commuter rail service to connect Union City, [[Fremont, California|Fremont]], and Newark to various [[San Francisco Peninsula|Peninsula]] destinations.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.smcta.com/Dumbarton_Rail/information.asp |title=Dumbarton Rail Corridor |publisher=SMCTA |date=2011-05-24 |access-date=2011-08-21 |archive-date=2012-04-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120417143948/http://www.smcta.com/Dumbarton_Rail/information.asp |url-status=dead }}</ref>  A successful March 2004 regional transportation ballot measure included funding to rehabilitate the rail bridge for the commuter rail service, but in October 2008 the Metropolitan Transportation Commission transferred $91 million from this project to the [[BART]] [[Silicon Valley BART extension#Warm Springs extension|Warm Springs extension]] in Fremont<!-- , delaying for at least a decade plans to send commuter trains across the bridge -->.<ref>{{Cite news
  | title = BART's Warm Springs Extension Gets Boost From Regional Measure 2 Cash
  | url = http://www.newsrx.com/newsletters/Healthcare-Finance,-Tax-and-Law-Weekly/2008-10-08/3010082008199HFT.html
  | work = Healthcare Finance, Tax & Law Weekly
  | date = October 8, 2008
  | access-date = 2009-08-02
}}</ref>