More than one-quarter of the infrastructure projects on which BART is working with Measure RR funding have now been completed, exceeding the agency’s timeline projections from when the measure went before voters in 2016.
The agency is currently working on more than 120 infrastructure repair and improvement projects and has already invested roughly $866 million from Measure RR, which authorized BART to issue bonds totaling $3.5 billion to replace aging rail and track components, some of which are more than 40 years old, and modernize the transit system’s stations.
BART officials credited the COVID-19 pandemic as the agency’s opportunity to hasten its infrastructure improvements, as BART’s track workers were able to do more than they otherwise would have over the last year while the system’s hours and ridership were reduced.
As of March 2021, BART has utilized Measure RR funds to replace 34 miles of track rail, 27 miles of electrical cables and improved the safety of the platform edges at seven different stations.
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funny not one thing to better the travels or rather safety or comfort of actual paying customers
not one thing to benefit the people paying for that bond
politicians received favors
unions received favors
special interests received favors
the people paying got d…
everything done with our extra money should have been part of a maintenance and expansion schedule
….that any real finance manager should have known and done
but this state has found the right people to bend over and ask no questions it appears as
now the unions and politicians take and mismanage
and just bill us for not doing their jobs correctly or efficiently within budget or even a notion of regard to us as anything other than their bank account cattle
most people of this state take and system suck
even a 3rd grader could tell you this can not be sustained
yet here we are and everyone is following right in line to the edge of the volcano like good little lemming fodder
Great news…do you think they can hire some people that could actually clean those filthy cars?
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