BART weighs contingency plan with station closures, fare hikes if ballot measure fails

BART Board Paints Bleak Picture if Ballot Measure Fails

The BART Board of Directors holds an informational workshop in its board room in Oakland on Thursday. The board heard details of plans to make huge cuts and close stations if a sales tax increase isn’t approved by voters in November. (BART via Bay City News) By Thomas Hughes Bay City News BART’s Board of Directors met Thursday to get a clearer picture of what contingency plans are available to the cash-strapped agency if a ballot measure planned…

BART weighs contingency plan with station closures, fare hikes if ballot measure fails

BART’s Board of Directors met Thursday to get a clearer picture of what contingency plans are available to the cash-strapped agency if a ballot measure planned for this November fails to give it a financial lifeline.  The transit agency is facing immediate and long-term annual budget shortfalls of hundreds of millions of dollars, and the Board must settle on a plan to make severe cuts and even close stations in case the ballot measure, which wou…