Bay Area Rapid Transit District
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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 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.
Current board members include:
District No. |
Name | County(s) | Stations |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Gail Murray | 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 | 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 | Zakhary Mallett | 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 | Tom Radulovich (President) | San Francisco | 16th Street Mission, 24th Street Mission, Glen Park, Civic Center, Powell Street, Balboa Park (partial) |
References
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- ↑ "San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District". CalTransit.org. California Transit Association. Retrieved 30 May 2016.