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As your BART Director, my priorities continue to be:

Install new fare gates and new elevator enclosures to reduce fare evasion
Reduce fare evasion with added station entrance security
Improve rider and worker safety by increasing police presence
Improve the ventilation technology with the use of new air filters
Build ridership with employment centers on BART parking lots with adequate transit rider parking
Support BART’s first Inspector General to address fraud, waste, and abuse
Demand strong oversight of $2.4 billion of annual spending, advocating for BART's first 2-year budget
Demand more cleaning on BART stations and trains using high-pressure power washing
Demand cost reductions and accountability for BART’s expansion to downtown San Jose and for the second transbay crossing, questioning engineering and planning decisions for these megaprojects
Ask for a financial plan to meet financial challenges and uncertainties
Provide fair and competitive wages for workers while holding the personnel costs stable as we wait for ridership to increase
Improve access to the east side of the Union City BART station with an anticipated opening 2023

Create SAFE, CLEAN, AFFORDABLE transit

Safety is most important when it comes to traveling on BART. We need to have ZERO tolerance for violence. This requires resources to be diverted toward station and train security and police officers. Train conductors can also monitor what goes on in the train and in the stations. WE need to increase our resources and collaborate with the local police to make this happen!

Clean trains and stations are essential to keeping our riders comfortable and safe. I will promote more resources towards ensuring all stations, restrooms, platforms and trains are kept at a higher standard of cleanliness.

Affordable transit is important to everyone as it promotes travel using BART and transit connections rather than people using their own vehicles. We must reduce our vehicle use if we want to combat climate change. I will work to promote family and employee passes.

Create Transit Villages

Land use has the largest impact on our environment. The bay area is at build-out. Like the highway system, BART is at build-out unless we create transit villages that include Job centers – not just housing complexes near BART stations. For example, if all the housing along the east bay sends the workforce north to San Francisco/Oakland, then how can we provide enough trains to send the work force north? The BART system does not have the capacity or the funding to lengthen the platforms to add more trains heading north. The solution is to have all BART stations promote a job-housing balance where the majority of the workforce does not go north. Our workforce stays closer to home by creating job centers on BART property and by reducing our travel trips.

NEW funding opportunities created at BART Stations

I continue to advocate creating job centers on the BART parking lots. Parking lots are “beach front’ property meaning it has the greatest opportunities to generate new revenue for BART by leasing the parking lot land for job centers. BART needs to look for a diversified portfolio of revenue and not rely completely on tax payers to fund improvements and operations.