SF News BART Unveils Renderings of Its New $90 Million, Allegedly Evasion-Proof Fare Gates, Which Have Spikes Think you can hop these upcoming new supposedly evasion-proof BART fare gates? Before you jump, realize they’re going to have bird-repellent spikes designed to be very hostile toward gate-hoppers’ hands.
SF News BART Board Moves Forward On $90 Million (Supposedly) Evasion-Proof Fare Gate Project Despite so-called “fiscal cliff” concerns, BART is embarking on a $90 million project to replace all their fare gates with new jump-proof “next generation” models, and got a recommendation to move ahead on the first $47 million phase of this at Thursday’s board meeting.
SF News BART’s New Evasion-Proof (Yeah, Right) Fare Gates Begin to Appear in the Wild So-called “Next Generation Fare Gates” are plexiglass doors and are now installed at Rockridge station, so we’ll see if this latest invention makes a dent in the system’s $25 million-a-year fare evasion problem.
SF News Pointless Muni Investigation Uncovers the Obvious by Chris Jones God Emperor of Muni, Nat Ford, has decided to get more aggressive about hunting down fare evaders in an attempt to bridge the enormous budget gap faced by the city's
