Future confrontations between BART police officers and hostile citizens could soon be captured live on video — and later posted online for the world to see.The transit agency’s police force, which has been involved in two officer-related shooting deaths in the past three years, recently purchased 160 new minicameras that can be affixed to sunglasses and record two hours of activity.
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Billboards on BART property could generate up to $10 million a year for the agency, but it’s unknown where the massive advertising signs would be allowed in the region.The advertising firm Allvision has approached BART about adding billboards to the agency’s right-of-way property, which includes areas along highways, maintenance yards, and transit stations.
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John McPartland, a former battalion chief with the Oakland Fire Department, has been named the new president of BART’s board of directors.McPartland was elected to the BART board in 2008, representing District 5 in Alameda County. He has served as the board’s vice president since 2010 and will now act as the body’s president after being unanimously voted in by his colleagues Thursday.
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More than one month after BART spokesman Linton Johnson went on personal leave following internal and external criticism of his actions, he isn’t yet back on the job and agency officials will not discuss his possible return.
Members of the Web activist collective Anonymous targeted Johnson for apparently advocating the disruption of BART cellphone service to quell a planned protest of the agency’s July 3 shooting of 45-year-old Charles Hill.
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BART will begin holding public meetings next month to discuss upcoming changes to its 9 political districts.BART is one of the few transit agencies in the country to have a publicly elected board of directors, each of whom represents a specific district in the Bay Area. Three of those members — Tom Radulovich, James Fang and Lynette Sweet — represent portions of San Francisco.
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Free on-street parking would become even rarer with the possible installation of as many as 4,000 new meters in Mission Bay, the Mission district, western SoMa and around local college campuses.
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BART will move forward with plans to extend its service by an hour on Friday nights, but questions remain about the possibility of future scheduling expansions.
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Under pressure from her agency’s board despite presiding over a budget surplus of up to $28 million, BART General Manager Dorothy Dugger resigned Wednesday — a development that will cost the agency nearly $1 million in severance pay.
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Confirming what many people already knew, BART’s Board of Directors will fess up and admit that a majority of their members asked General Manager Dorothy Dugger to resign earlier this month.
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Five BART directors from an array of political leanings voted to ask General Manager Dorothy Dugger to resign last week, but the unifying grievance among the group remains unclear.
In a surprise development Feb. 10 in closed session, five of BART’s nine directors asked Dugger to resign. The vote was rescinded after members raised concerns the board may have violated the state’s open-meetings law by failing to provide proper public notice.
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