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BART Staff Opposes Rush Hour Bike Access on Rear Cars
By Aaron Bialick |
BART staff has shot down a proposal from Director Robert Raburn to allow commuters to bring bicycles aboard the back cars of rush hour trains. In a memo [pdf] to the BART Board, Executive Planning and Budget Manager Carter Mau recommended maintaining the current policy, which prohibits bicycles aboard its most crowded trains during peak […]
Board Challengers Hope to Change Culture at BART
By Matthew Roth |
With the anti-incumbency narrative dominating elections this fall, it shouldn’t be a surprise that two of the longest-serving BART board directors are facing stiff competition from upstart challengers who claim they have lost touch with the electorate they serve. Far from the anti-government Tea Party rhetoric, however, the two candidates providing the greatest challenge to […]
BART Board Member Urges Agency to Consider Unlimited Monthly Pass
By Matthew Roth |
At a recent BART board meeting where directors discussed various options for spending or saving an operating budget surplus, Director Tom Radulovich suggested the board consider the ramifications of instituting an unlimited ride monthly pass, which had been previously discussed but never seriously pursued. The issue came up most recently in 2005 and 2006 when […]
Advocates: Help Make BART’s Rush Hour “Bikes On Board” Pilot a Success
By Aaron Bialick |
[Update: BART released a video explaining the bikes-on-board rush hour pilot.] BART announced a pilot last week to lift the ban on bikes aboard rush-hour trains each Friday in August. The news is cause for celebration among bike advocates, who are calling upon bike-toting passengers to help make the pilot a success by setting a […]
BART Board Will Soon Debate Raising Parking Fees
By Matthew Roth |
Raising the price of parking is a contentious issue anywhere, but it’s particularly divisive for the BART Board of Directors, who may be debating a proposal from their finance committee as soon as next Thursday’s board meeting to raise parking fees to mitigate their soaring budget deficit. "Free parking is not free for BART," said […]
BART Sees Huge Revenue Decline As Ridership and Sales Taxes Plummet
By Matthew Roth |
BART’s revenue picture didn’t get any better today with the release of fourth-quarter FY2008 ridership and sales tax numbers, down 10 percent and 20 percent from the same period one year ago, respectively. BART’s ridership has dropped to an average of 335,500 riders per day, a 10 percent decline in the number of riders using […]