Two new BART directors were sworn in Thursday at the agency’s HQ in Oakland. Zakhary Mallet, who represents District 7, said one of his priorities is to investigate the possibility of a new station that would serve San Pablo, Pinole and Hercules. The new District 3 rep, Rebecca Saltzman, said her top priority was to keep BART running smoothly, according to the Bay City News Service.
What would be your top priority for BART: bikes, parking, new lines, cleaner trains, more trains during commute times, safer stations, 24-hour service, or something else?
After Mallett and Saltzman were sworn in, the board elected director Tom Radulovich of San Francisco as its president and Joel Keller of Brentwood to be its new vice president.
Keller said BART needs to make sure it raises enough money to pay for its long-term capital needs, which he said are at least $7.5 billion.
He said one way to accomplish that goal is to get state leaders to lower the two-thirds threshold currently needed to pass bond measures that benefit transit agencies and other governmental entities.
"The two-thirds threshold is such a high burden that even balanced measures have a tough time passing," Keller said.
He said the threshold should be lowered to as low as 51 percent.
-Bay City News Service contributed to this report.
We're a working class area and we deserve access to BART. It will also help keep us out of, and decrease, freeway traffic every day. Right now, If we want to go anywhere we have to drive, even though we pay for BART through our homeowner's taxes. Del Norte or Richmond station just doesn't work for me. Cmon Pinole, Let's make it happen
End paying for any medical care for retirees over 65. They have Medicare. Cut all salaries to market-rate. No mechanic in the private sector makes $150k plus benefits. No clerk who sits on his/her butt all day in the equivalent of a train station makes $100k in the private sector. Fire all "maintenance workers" who supposedly work on the escalators and elevators. Replace them with negotiated service contracts with private industry/suppliers of escalators/elevators. After all that, now see how much money appears to upgrade rolling stock, stations etc. Now stop whining about how "hard" it is to extract more money from taxpayers.
1. The late evening trains from San Francisco to Bay Point smell so strong of pot smokers you can almost get high from it. 2. Most of the train operators mumble so you can't make out the next train stop. 3. If Bart keep letting their employees dictate their wages they will go broke, most are overpaid and Bart keeps shifting off the expenses to us . Starting pay for Bart Police ...starting mind you.... $125 grand a year ,, Get real Bart.