We've been seeing something like this coming, but apparently BART's plan to use $70M in stimulus funds to build that Oakland Airport tram has just hit another snag. The Federal Transit Administration sent BART a strongly worded letter on January 15th saying they are in danger of losing their $70M earmark if they don't submit, really soon, a new report documenting that the project does not discriminate against low-income Oakland residents. Whatever report BART did file, in order to be in compliance with federal code, was evidently not good enough. Unfortunately if BART loses the money, there's a good chance it will be spent outside the Bay Area — even though there are probably more worthy projects this could be spent on, like, say, building a train to Marin, but today's Marin voters would probably kill that idea just like they did in the 70s.