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Streetsblog Editorial: BART Needs to Kill the Freeway Widening, Livermore Extension
By Roger Rudick |
The BART Board of Directors is scheduled to vote on a $1.6 billion investment on an extension to Livermore that would still not connect BART riders to downtown Livermore nor other regional rail.
This Week: Workplace of the Future, Vigil Ride, BART Extension Meeting
By Roger Rudick |
Here are this week’s highlights from the Streetsblog calendar: Monday today! Designing for the Unknown. When we think about the workplace of the future, are we thinking about the right things? What if we expanded our imaginings to include things like artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, 3D printing or even the influence of Star Wars? Join SPUR […]
BART Mulls Options for Spending (or Saving) Small Budget Surplus
By Matthew Roth |
Photo: Matthew Roth BART Board meetings over the past year have been tumultuous, from the public fury over the Oscar Grant killing, which included the arrest of a protester for dousing BART General Manager Dorothy Dugger with red paint, to vigorous debate over whether to spend stimulus funds on the Oakland Airport Connector (OAC), to […]
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 […]
Editorial: Impressions of BART’s New Line to Antioch
By Roger Rudick |
A little over a week ago, BART held a community ribbon-cutting celebration for its new ten-mile, two-station extension from the end of the Pittsburg/Bay Point line to Antioch.
BART Board Gets Closer to Dublin/Pleasanton Line Extension Decision
By Roger Rudick |
The BART Board of directors spent two and a half hours this morning debating and hearing from staff and constituents about a proposed $1.6 billion extension of the Dublin/Pleasanton branch to Livermore.