You'll recall how BART was recently under threat of effing themselves out of that $70M in federal stimulus funds if they didn't come up with a better report regarding potential discrimination in their plans to build and operate an airport connector? Well, they are now effed and the money is going to be redistributed to other transit agencies. We don't completely understand the details, but the $6 that riding the thing was going to cost, along with whatever proposed hiring/contracting plans they had, allegedly were not satisfactory in terms of proving that poor residents of Oakland were getting equal treatment under the Federal Civil Rights Act.

As Oakland North reports, the government first offered to allow BART to resubmit their report, but last week came back and said, "Too late!" saying that the funds would be redistributed to other agencies because BART would probably be tied up in litigation over this issue well past the September deadline for using the stimulus money.

The good news for SF: Muni is getting $17M of the redistributed funds for "a truck rebuilding program and preventative maintenance." Terrif.