Recent Streetsblog SF posts about BART

BART Sees $4 Million Budget Surplus at End of This Fiscal Year

By Matthew Roth | Aug 11, 2010 | 8 Comments

Flickr Photo: David BART has once again bucked the trend of financial pain among other Bay Area transit operators by realizing a budget surplus at the end of fiscal year 2010, in large part due to strong sales tax receipts in the fourth quarter. In a letter to the BART Board yesterday [PDF], General Manager […]

BART Board Swears in New Police Chief, Approves Livermore Alignment

By Matthew Roth | Jul 2, 2010 | 10 Comments

Editor’s note: We’re taking Monday off. Enjoy the long weekend and see you back here Tuesday! New BART Police Chief Kenton Rainey and Director Gail Murray celebrate at Rainey’s swearing in ceremony. Photo: Matthew Roth. With concerns mounting about the reaction to the verdict in the Mehserle trial, BART held an official swearing-in ceremony at […]

Social Justice Leader Condemns BART for Proceeding with OAC Funding

By Matthew Roth | Jun 25, 2010 | 1 Comment

Image: BART. While BART will soon take a funding plan to its Board of Directors for the Oakland Airport Connector, Carl Anthony, the founder of Urban Habitat and a fellow in the Department of Geography at Berkeley, has called on the agency to wait to proceed with funding the OAC until the Federal Transit Administration […]

BART Moves Ahead With OAK Connecter Despite Civil Rights Violations

By Matthew Roth | Jun 22, 2010 | 17 Comments

Image: BART. Even though BART is not in compliance with the Federal Transportation Administration’s (FTA) Title VI civil rights regulations, the agency has sought funding from numerous local, regional, state and federal outlets to continue the Oakland Airport Connector (OAC) project, a three-mile elevated tramway that would connect the Oakland Airport with the Oakland Coliseum […]

BART Mulls Options for Spending (or Saving) Small Budget Surplus

By Matthew Roth | May 28, 2010 | 7 Comments

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 […]

MTC Confident on Civil Rights Policies, Clipper Card Rollout Begins

By Matthew Roth | May 26, 2010 | 8 Comments

The Clipper Card readers at the Lake Merritt BART Station. Photos: Matthew Roth. One development lost in the media feeding frenzy around the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) denying BART’s request of $70 million for the Oakland Airport Connector (OAC) was a letter the FTA sent to the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), the Bay Area’s planning […]

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