Recent Streetsblog SF posts about BART

BART Board Will Consider Increased Parking Fees to Address Budget Woes

By Matthew Roth | Apr 9, 2009 | 3 Comments

From enjoycarrotjuice on Flickr At its monthly board meeting today, BART staff will present a number of options for closing its budget deficit, including a proposal to extend parking fees to stations that don’t already have them. BART General Manager Dorothy Dugger will present the board with a preliminary operating budget for FY 2010, which […]

BART Board Will Soon Debate Raising Parking Fees

By Matthew Roth | Mar 20, 2009 | 10 Comments

Raising the price of parking is a contentious issue anywhere, but it’s particularly divisive for the BART Board of Directors, who may be debating a proposal from their finance committee as soon as next Thursday’s board meeting to raise parking fees to mitigate their soaring budget deficit. "Free parking is not free for BART," said […]

Using Software to Find Walkable Neighborhoods and Live Car Free

By Matthew Roth | Feb 27, 2009 | 4 Comments

The Bay Area’s public transportation circulatory system. Click for larger view Though David Brooks might argue in his New York Times column that Americans want to live in small towns and suburban dreamscapes, the fact is more and more of us live in metropolitan areas, and discussions about what we want should have to do […]

Despite Outcry, MTC Board Approves OAK Connector Funds

By Matthew Roth | Feb 25, 2009 | 6 Comments

Advocates packed the MTC hearing room Transportation and social justice advocates packed the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) board meeting today to demand that the agency not spend a proposed $70 million of federal stimulus money on the Oakland Airport Connector (OAC) project. MTC commissioners heard testimony for over two hours from some of the more […]

California Transit Association: “Armageddon Scenario Has Arrived”

By Damien Newton | Feb 13, 2009 | No Comments

Transit advocates around the state are trying to grapple with the new reality that the budget compromise worked out between Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Legislature completely abolishes the State Transit Assistance (STA) and the $536 million that it dedicated to subsidizing transit operations. There are multiple villains in this story, but the blackest hat […]

Radulovich Becomes Second BART Director to Call for GM’s Resignation

By Bryan Goebel | Jan 26, 2009 | 4 Comments

Dorothy Dugger is facing increasing pressure to resign (Photo: BART) Tom Radulovich became the second member of the BART Board of Directors today to call for GM Dorothy Dugger’s resignation. He cited, among other things, cell phone video uncovered over the weekend by KTVU that shows a BART police officer beating a man on the […]