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 Muni Stopped Citing People for Fare Evasion During the Pandemic. So What Were We Paying Those Fare Inspectors To Do? Muni basically stopped enforcing fare violations during the pandemic, issuing merely 325 citations during a two-year period. Yet they still employed 43 fare inspectors full-time, which seems perhaps a waste of money?
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 East Bay Woman Sues After BART Police Forcibly Detain Her For Fare Evasion An East Bay woman has filed a civil rights lawsuit over a December 31, 2019 incident in which she was forcibly detained and bloodied by BART police officers over fare evasion at San Leandro's Bayfair Station.
SF News Video Shows Dozens Jumping Over BART Gates After Rolling Loud Festival in Oakland A mere four days after BART decided to move forward with new, more fare-cheat-proof gates, a Twitter video surfaced yesterday after Oakland’s Rolling Loud festival, showing dozens of riders jumping over the gates at the Coliseum BART Station.
SF News BART Board Votes To Install Muni-Esque Fare Gates To Combat Evasion BART's directors voted Thursday to move forward with a swing-style gate design that is not unlike the fare gates that Muni installed systemwide a decade ago.
SF News BART Board Considers New York City-Style Turnstiles To Combat Fare Evasion The comedy of errors over at BART over how to update its 50-year-old fare gate designs continues, though it might come with a significant twist this week.
SF News BART Says Riders Who Don't Pay Fares Don't Cost The Transit Agency Anything When does a rider who doesn't pay their fare cost the cash-strapped transit agency known as BART any money? When that rider is related to an employee, if comments made by their spokesperson
SF News Party's Over For BART Gate-Hoppers As Police Crack Down On Fare Evasion If you’re in on the dirty little secret that many BART stations (like Embarcadero) have free-swinging gate exits that you can just walk right through, your swinger party may be over. ABC
SF News 1 in 10 of Muni Riders Practice Fare Evasion With an estimated 700,000 boardings per day, 1 out of 10 Muni riders jump aboard without paying. (For shame! Two dollars is a bargain for this kind of entertainment.) According to a
