The following is reprinted from Speak Out Now’s workplace newsletter at Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART). The news media, fueled by publicity from BART management and the Board, keeps raising the fear flag about the future of BART. Maybe they think people will vote to...
The following is reprinted from Speak Out Now’s workplace newsletter at Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) BART is busily handing over valuable properties to developers to build expensive apartments. They call it TOD (Transit Oriented Development). They are getting...
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now newsletter at Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system in California. The Covid pandemic has exposed a key problem in BART’s funding model – relying on fares for a large part of operating expenses. San Francisco is now one...
This article is from the Speak Out Now newsletter at Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART). Last week, the Oaklandside wrote an article about how the Coliseum Connections apartment building flooded during the storms on New Year’s Eve, forcing all residents to be evacuated....
The following article has been edited and reprinted from our workplace newsletter at BAY AREA RAPID TRANSIT. The BART Board approved the tentative agreement and it is now a contract. That means a 10.5% wage increase over three years. But where does that leave BART...