Ribbon-cutting celebrates new fare gates at BART

Ribbon-cutting celebrates new fare gates at BART

BART officials, elected representatives and other public transit stakeholders gathered at the West Dublin/Pleasanton BART station Friday to commemorate the completion of the transit agency’s years-long effort to install new fare gates at all 50 stations across the Bay Area. The post Ribbon-cutting celebrates new fare gates at BART  appeared first on Livermore Vine.

UPDATE: BART’s New Gates Cut Fare Evasion In Half, But Sensors Still Coming To Stop Piggybackers

New BART fare gates that are harder to push through, jump over or crawl under have reduced reports of fare evasion by more than half, officials said. The number of riders who said they’d witnessed fare evasion has fallen to 10 percent in the latest quarterly performance reports from 22 percent in the first quarter of fiscal 2025, BART said. The Next Generation Fare Gates are now in place at all 50 BART stations. Installation of 716 gates was com…