Bay Area Rapid Transit District

A map of California, with the Bay Area Rapid Transit District highlighted in blue, non-member counties served by BART in yellow (by 2017), and former (unserved) member county in red.

The Bay Area Rapid Transit District is a special-purpose district body that governs the Bay Area Rapid Transit system in the California counties of Alameda, Contra Costa and San Francisco. The system itself also serves northern San Mateo County and is being extended to Santa Clara County but these counties have bought into the system and have no voting stake nor representatives in the district proper.[1]

History

The Bay Area Rapid Transit District (occasionally abbreviated in early years to BARTD) was created in 1957[2] to provide a transit alternative between suburbs in the East Bay and job centers in San Francisco's Financial District as well as (to a lesser extent) those in Downtown Oakland and Downtown Berkeley.

The district originally included San Mateo and Marin Counties. San Mateo opted out, preferring to utilize funds to build their freeway system. Fearing they would be unable to absorb their share of operating costs and after concerns were raised about the feasibility of running trains across the Golden Gate Bridge, Marin also left the district before construction of the initial system.

Structure

BARTD is split into nine districts, each of which elects one board member. One board member acts as president. Board members appoint five officers: General Manager, Controller-Treasurer, Independent Police Auditor, General Counsel, and District Secretary.

BART Board Directors

Current board members include:

District
No.		 Name County(s) Stations
1 Debora Allen Contra Costa Concord, Lafayette, Pleasant Hill/Contra Costa Centre, Walnut Creek
2 Joel Keller Contra Costa North Concord/Martinez, Pittsburg/Bay Point
3 Rebecca Saltzman (President) Alameda / Contra Costa Bay Fair, Downtown Berkeley, El Cerrito del Norte (partial), El Cerrito Plaza (partial), North Berkeley, Orinda, Rockridge, San Leandro
4 Robert Raburn Alameda Coliseum/Oakland Airport, Fruitvale, Lake Merritt, 12th Street/Oakland City Center, 19th Street/Oakland, MacArthur (partial)
5 John McPartland Alameda Castro Valley, Dublin/Pleasanton, Hayward, West Dublin/Pleasanton
6 Thomas Blalock Alameda Fremont, South Hayward, Union City
7 Lateefah Simon Alameda / Conta Costa / San Francisco Ashby, El Cerrito del Norte (partial), El Cerrito Plaza (partial), MacArthur (partial), Montgomery (partial), Richmond, West Oakland, Embarcadero (partial)
8 Nick Josefowitz San Francisco Balboa Park (partial), Embarcadero (partial), Montgomery (partial)
9 Bevan Dufty San Francisco 16th Street Mission, 24th Street Mission, Glen Park, Civic Center, Powell Street, Balboa Park (partial)

Former BART Directors

References

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  2. ↑ "San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District". CalTransit.org. California Transit Association. Retrieved 30 May 2016.
  3. ↑ "See a BART station, see a village". 28 September 2005. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
  4. ↑ Hoffmeister, Laura (29 November 2016). "ViewPoints by Laura Hoffmeister: Welcome, thanks for city council service". East Bay Times. Retrieved 6 December 2016.
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