BART

More cameras, better data management, hardening the system--but opponents fear privacy invasion and police abuses

BART General Manager Grace Crunican will be seeking BART Board approval for a $28 million “comprehensive Safety and Security Action Plan.”

Just a quick reminder that BART will be working on the Oakland wye this weekend, so trains from San Francisco won't run beyond West Oakland station. BART will run a free bus bridge between West Oakland and 19th Street Station, where riders can transfer back to trains to reach all other East Bay destinations.

Late last week, Janice Li, Advocacy Director for the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, stopped by City Hall to pull papers and officially begin her campaign for the District 8 seat of the BART Board

This week BART announced that it has ground and reshaped the wheels on more than half of its train cars, as part of an ongoing effort to reduce the transit system's infamous and ear-splitting howl. The wheels are being ground to "an advanced wheel profile that reduces both noise and wear on the rail," wrote the railroad in its announcement about the milestone.

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.

Lots of important transit milestones going into the Memorial Day weekend. Three important items are listed below:

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.

Build the BRT, address the needs of current riders, and grow ridership by investing in improved reliability and affordability so that all Bay residents have better access to equitable and sustainable transportation now and in the future.