Recent Streetsblog SF posts about BART

BART Breaks Ground on East Contra Costa County Extension

By Matthew Roth | Oct 29, 2010 | 7 Comments

For BART, the past month marks the beginning of two very different extensions, though both have been controversial. After surmounting vigorous opposition to the Oakland Airport Connector (OAC), BART inaugurated the 3.2 mile, $484 million extension last week with great fanfare and a large crowd of construction workers and politicians proud to get the project […]

BART Holds Groundbreaking Ceremony for the Oakland Airport Connector

By Matthew Roth | Oct 21, 2010 | 32 Comments

After decades of political wrangling, BART is on the verge of building the Oakland Airport Connector (OAC), a $484 million, 3.2 mile automated people mover that will connect the Coliseum BART Station with the Oakland international Airport. BART held a ceremonial groundbreaking yesterday with most of the significant East Bay political establishment, two weeks before […]

Mandatory Switch from Muni Paper Passes to Clipper Card Begins Soon

By Matthew Roth | Oct 18, 2010 | 24 Comments

As Bay Area transit agencies transition from paper passes to the Clipper smart card, operators like the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), which runs Muni, are hoping their most loyal customers take the switch in stride. To this end, the SFMTA started selling its November Muni A Fast Passes and disability Regional Transit Connection […]

BART Board to Debate Increasing Revenue with Video Monitors, Train Ads

By Matthew Roth | Sep 22, 2010 | 10 Comments

Unlike every other transit agency in the Bay Area, BART was able to stanch the economic bleeding over the past year and realize a modest operational surplus at the end of FY 2010 in June. The agency doesn’t have a warm and fuzzy feeling, however, and Board President James Fang has asked staff to present […]

BART Board Member Urges Agency to Consider Unlimited Monthly Pass

By Matthew Roth | Sep 21, 2010 | 26 Comments

At a recent BART board meeting where directors discussed various options for spending or saving an operating budget surplus, Director Tom Radulovich suggested the board consider the ramifications of instituting an unlimited ride monthly pass, which had been previously discussed but never seriously pursued. The issue came up most recently in 2005 and 2006 when […]

Board Challengers Hope to Change Culture at BART

By Matthew Roth | Sep 17, 2010 | 24 Comments

With the anti-incumbency narrative dominating elections this fall, it shouldn’t be a surprise that two of the longest-serving BART board directors are facing stiff competition from upstart challengers who claim they have lost touch with the electorate they serve. Far from the anti-government Tea Party rhetoric, however, the two candidates providing the greatest challenge to […]

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