Recent Streetsblog SF posts about BART

Lateefah Simon will be taking over the District 7 seat on the BART Board of Directors. Photo from her campaign website

Incoming Director Simon Talks About Her Vision for BART

By Roger Rudick | Nov 29, 2016 | No Comments

Lateefah Simon was one of three new BART directors elected earlier this month. She will take over District 7 from outgoing director Zakhary Mallett. District 7 is unique in that it encompasses portions of San Francisco, Alameda, and Contra Costa. That means balancing the requirements of the outlying suburban areas with those of West Oakland and […]

Radulovich after his Streetsblog exit-interview outside a cafe near his home in the Mission. Photo: Streetsblog

Exit Interview: Director Tom Radulovich Reflects on 20 Years with BART

By Roger Rudick | Nov 17, 2016 | 2 Comments

Tom Radulovich, as most Streetsblog readers probably know, is retiring from BART at the end of the year. He was first elected to the BART Board of Directors in November 1996, to represent the 9th District, which includes portions of San Francisco. He serves on the board’s Personnel Review Special Committee and on the Capitol Corridor Joint […]

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SPUR talk on Local Measures: BART Bond Passes, Mixed Results on Others

By Roger Rudick | Nov 9, 2016 | No Comments

This afternoon, the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR), hosted a post-election analysis of local races and measures with political consultants David Latterman of Fall Line Analytics and Alex Clemens of Lighthouse Public Affairs. Clemens started off his presentation and summed up the mood in the room with a single word: “sh*t!” […]

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Final Push on BART Bond

By Roger Rudick | Nov 7, 2016 | 15 Comments

Press, advocates and politician gathered at 8:30 this morning in front of Oakland City Hall for a final push for the $3.5 billion BART bond, Measure RR. As Streetsblog readers will recall, the bond is intended to rebuild and upgrade BART’s aged infrastructure, focusing on the exiting tracks, trains, tunnels, signals and electrical systems. From the […]

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Public Gets a Look at BART’s Future

By Roger Rudick | Oct 17, 2016 | 20 Comments

Yesterday afternoon, some 1,600 people braved the rain to check out BART’s new rolling stock at an open-house at MacArthur Station in Oakland. BART is doing a total of four open houses. The first one was Saturday, in Pleasant Hill/Contra Costa Centre Station. From the BART web page: The Fleet of the Future is closer than […]

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Rail~Volution: All-Things-Rail Conference Comes to San Francisco

By Roger Rudick | Oct 11, 2016 | 12 Comments

Some 1,200 planners, engineers, managers and transit journalists crowded into the San Francisco Hyatt Regency this week for the Rail~Volution conference. From the conference press release: The…conference brings together thought leaders and innovators to discuss the relationship between public transit and land-use, examine best practices in transit-oriented development, and look at how to maintain diversity […]

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