🚨BREAKING: The White House confirmed Friday that President Donald Trump is pressing Congress to add new provisions targeting transgender people to the SAVE America Act — a sweeping anti-voting bill that could disenfranchise millions. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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BART, the State of California, the City of El Cerrito, and development partner Related California have broken ground on 70 affordable apartments at the El Cerrito Plaza BART Station, marking the start of the first phase of the Transit-Oriented Development
Yes we need to reform prop 13 not only because it helps reduce supply but waiting for inheritance transfers but it also reduces public funding which cities try to make up for through development fees which help increase the cost of housing. Prop 13 is simply bad legislation
a group of people holding a banner that says "BART.. Let's go" in the Oakland Chinatown parade
The BARTmobile with an elaborate hat.
People in a parade behind a banner for East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation
BART Directors @victorfloresbart.bsky.social & Robert Raburn were also at Oakland Chinatown Lunar New Year, & the BARTmobile made an appearance! Following BART in the parade was East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation, a nonprofit that's building affordable housing at Lake Merritt station.
Thanks, I’ll follow up with staff as well
You could email me the details at Victor.flores@bart.gov you can also file a complaint with our Office of the Independent Police Auditor
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ICYMI — “Border Patrol agents left a partially blind refugee who spoke little English in the parking lot of a Buffalo coffee shop the night of Feb. 19... He was found dead five days later.”
They say it was open. It wasn’t. 37 degrees outside.
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All BART lines are going back up now.
We had a computer network hardware fail but have cut over to another device and will be in the process of restoring service.
BART Anime Project Presents BART MART Artist Alley
BART Anime Project Presents BART MART Artist Alley
Get excited for new BART Anime events!
BART MART is a series of smaller pop-up art markets in BART stations.
BART MART 1 is coming to Downtown Berkeley Station on Wednesday, March 4, from 3 to 6pm.
BART MART 2 is coming to Millbrae Station on Thursday, March 26, from 4 to 7pm.
Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF
Happy Black Joy Day Bay Area! BART Director @victorfloresbart.bsky.social , staff, and family are riding with the BARTmobile through downtown Oakland for the celebration!
The festival is happening now until 7 p.m. so take BART to 19th. St Oakland to enjoy the festivities!
Congrats to BART rider and Oakland legend Alysa Liu on winning a gold medal at the Olympics and making the Bay Area proud!
Fantastic stuff here from Pritzker. If you're a Democratic governor, mayor, or city council member in a high COL blue state right now and you aren't laser focused on increasing the infill housing supply, either get your shit together or resign and let someone who will do the job.
At a time when Black history is being erased, it’s more important than ever to keep diverse stories and histories alive.
This Black History Month, I wanted to share books that have inspired me and are fundamental to my thinking, politic, & how I represent our district in the Capitol every day.
interesting to think that revolutionary era americans understood themselves as making a break with the “old world” and establishing a new civilization. and crucially, this new civilization rested on republican self-government, not “sovereignty.”
"Minutes into his keynote on Tuesday, Benioff asked people who had traveled from outside the US to stand up, then suggested ICE agents were waiting for them in the back, employees who heard the comments said. He also suggested ICE agents were around for employees who had yet to use Slackbot, and complained about Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show."
He asked all those who'd traveled from outside the U.S. to stand up...
BART is recovering from an earlier problem. There is a 20-minute delay in the Berryessa, SFO and Millbrae directions due to an earlier equipment problem on the track between 19th St. Oakland and MacArthur station.
I realize media doesn’t think it’s a big deal that Trump, Vance & Hegseth continue to give partisan political speeches to troops, evidenced by the fact that they are never asked about it nor are members of Congress, but it is one of the most dangerous things happening right now.
It’s so hard to imagine no BART that it’s challenging to process that phase 2 (cutting service 70%, closing 15 stations) will ultimately lead to BART suspending service entirely.
Slashing service would crater ridership and revenue and lead to end of BART.
We must pass Connect Bay Area measure!
Staff looked at 18 different schedules and options and found the stations and line closures would provide the most savings however we asked them to show us what the no station closure path looks like as far as cuts in other areas. Should see it next Friday when the board packet is published
Used to give us three hours of yard time in one day and not let people the rest of the week. The commissary was also bare bones. Crazy to think myself and others yearned to go back to a CDCR facility
I was in a CoreCivic prison in AZ years ago. Food was hot garbage. Ppl would lose like 20 pounds within months of arriving. When I was in the hole we had to protest by boarding up our windows because medical request were taking hella long to be answer if they ever got answered at all. IIRC they also
So AMA or fact check me. I don’t have staff so maybe I’m forgetting something. I’ll probably post responses tomorrow
We also had Warm Springs (2017) and Berryessa (2020) stations open and had to hire ppl to increase service from pandemic levels. Still, I do agree we need to keep headcount’s down and focus on frontline staff to keep our costs down and show we are doing what we can to stretch every dollar
Trains & stations, and safety. All of those things cost operation and capital dollars. I agree that it is better to provide good service instead of asking for money after cutting back on service. BART headcount has grown as a result but at a slower pace. Some teams are still understaffed
Mismanagement in any audits. Have they substantiated individual cases of fraud waste & abuse? Yes and BART has moved to discipline and get $ back.
Why hasn’t BART downsized if we’ve had a deficit for a while? BART made the decision to met the demands the public had such as quality transit, cleaner
Of overtime and we have a deficit. BART OIG audited overtime and flagged things that needed to be improved and BART staff accepted the recs and is making improvements. Does that mean they found systematic fraud? No. BART has accepted almost all of the recs from the OIG. To date she has not found any
A lot of ppl online have recommended that we adopt Rail+Property. I’m going to introduce and item on that, I ran on it because it’s a model that works. We can’t keep asking riders and taxpayers to foot the bill and I doubt the state or fed will help. I’ve also seen ppl say BART is mismanaged because
I’m hopeful the community will rally to support public transit, if no new funding materializes, I suspect many employers will expand WFH options as service is cut. Truth is that in a scenario with budget/service cuts, even the doomsday scenario in phase 2 is not guaranteed to balance the budget
