Recent Streetsblog SF posts about BART

BART Sees Huge Revenue Decline As Ridership and Sales Taxes Plummet

By Matthew Roth | Jun 18, 2009 | 17 Comments

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 […]

Muni and BART Dump ‘Dump the Pump Day’ This Year

By Michael Rhodes | Jun 18, 2009 | 3 Comments

The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s promotion of Dump the Pump Day 2008. Flickr photo: Metro Library and Archive The Bay Area’s two largest transit agencies are passing this year on a national event intended to get drivers to ride transit for a day. Muni and BART won’t be participating in National Dump the […]

BART Unions Accuse Management of Contract Delays and Costly Perks

By Matthew Roth | Jun 16, 2009 | 5 Comments

Photo: jritz In a teleconference with reporters today, the presidents of three of BART’s five unions accused BART management of not showing good faith in efforts to complete negotiations on a new 4-year contract by June 30th, the day the current contract expires. The unions claim that management talks a good game in public, assuring […]

Expanded Downtown Berkeley BART Bike Station Moving Forward

By Michael Rhodes | Jun 12, 2009 | 4 Comments

Bike station expansion supporters celebrate in the Berkeley City Hall lobby last December following the City Council’s decision to prioritize the bike station expansion. Photo: EBBC Berkeley and East Bay bicycle commuters will have many more bicycle parking options with the opening of a new storefront bicycle station near Downtown Berkeley BART later this year. […]

BART Transit Blogger Roundtable, Part II

By Matthew Roth | Jun 4, 2009 | No Comments

Flickr Photo: pbo31 Last week regional transit bloggers sat down with BART management and asked questions of General Manager Dorothy Dugger about her transit operation. This is part two of that roundtable: Impact of economy on operating budget The biggest challenge that I’m focused on right now is certainly the effects of the economic reality […]

Supervisor Chiu Urges MTC to Invest in Transit Over Freeway Expansion

By Bryan Goebel | Jun 3, 2009 | 11 Comments

Flickr photo: pbo31 In honor of the 50th anniversary of San Francisco’s famous "Freeway Revolt," car-free Board of Supes President David Chiu has introduced a resolution calling on the Metropolitan Transportation Commission to reallocate funds for highway expansion and "prioritize investment in public transit maintenance." "This is really to put us on record as saying […]

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