SF News Day Around the Bay: BART Bringing Those ‘Evasion-Proof’ Fare Gates to 24th Street Station Next Week 49ers receiver Brandon Aiyuk just ended his holdout; Scott Wiener’s controversial AI safety bill has passed the state legislature; and they’ll begin installing BART’s jump-proof fare gates at 24th Street station starting Tuesday.
SF News BART Installing the Evasion-Proof Fare Gates Throughout Civic Center Station, Starting Today Heads up, gate-hoppers: BART is installing their supposedly evasion-proof Next Generation Fare Gates at Civic Center Station starting today, hoping to stem fare evasion at one of their most notorious stations.
SF News BART Announces the Next Eight Stations Getting Those ‘Evasion-Proof’ Fare Gates The new and supposedly gatehopping-proof BART fare gates are already in use at the West Oakland station, and now BART has announced the next eight stations that will get them. Of course, SF’s notorious Civic Center station is on the list.
SF News BART Unveils Their Supposedly ‘Evasion-Proof’ Fare Gates at West Oakland Station BART’s four-year, $90 million quest for an “evasion-proof” fare gate is now a working reality, at one station at least, as the West Oakland station is now the first out of the gate with the new gates that will soon be installed systemwide.
SF News BART Unveils Prototype for New ‘Evasion-Proof’ Gates, Which… Might Actually Be Evasion-Proof? BART’s $90 million, four-year Holy Grail quest for an evasion-proof fare gate appears to be in its home stretch, as they’ve unveiled the “overall structure” of the current version of the new gates that are allegedly debuting by the end of the year.
SF News BART Awards Contract For 775 New Supposedly Evasion-Proof Replacement Fare Gates The West Oakland BART station will get the first batch of futuristic and allegedly evasion-proof fare gates this December, and the whole system will have them by 2025, as the transit agency hopes to stop chronic fare evasion.
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
