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The BART board of directors approved a $2.3 billion budget for fiscal year 2020 and announced a fare increase of 5.4 percent starting Jan. 1, 2020. The new budget should, according to BART spokespeople, increase the safety and quality of BART services.
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Mable Howard, as described by her daughter Mildred Howard, was a leading community organiser who successfully launched a lawsuit against BART in 1968. An above-ground train would have disrupted many small local businesses — “banks, hardware stores, a shoe store, an appliance store” — and divided white communities and communities of color across the tracks.
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BART’s new 10-car trains are expected to roll out by early December despite failing a key safety inspection earlier this month.
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The Safe Transit policy prevents BART employees — including members of the BART Police Department — from asking about riders’ immigration statuses unless directed by state laws, federal regulations or court orders.
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After BART’s widespread use of decoy cameras became public knowledge last month, BART announced plans last week to install functioning cameras in all 669 train cars in its current fleet.
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At an open house in the station Wednesday and Thursday, BART staff and project consultants gathered input from riders about modernizing the Downtown Berkeley BART station.
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Two recent proposals are seeking to change the bargaining process between BART management and its unions — one which would completely overhaul the way that negotiations are currently being conducted.
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After several months of dispute and two strikes, BART and its two largest unions have drafted a series of tentative agreements to resolve remaining labor contract issues.
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After six months of negotiations between BART management and unions, the BART Board of Directors voted 8-to-1 on Thursday to approve most of a mutually-approved contract, but struck down a disputed family and medical leave provision that BART claims was included in error.
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BART’s two largest unions voted on Friday to approve a contract agreement that would both increase workers’ wages and make changes ensuring the transit system’s financial sustainability.
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