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Not wasting our tomorrow, today.

Remember in November!

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@donatelli2026 The old BART train cars were "A", "B" and "C" designated, the new BART cars are "D" and "E".

That means (ironic) that #BART has effectively designated each BART car type based on a specific type of Hepatitis.

Ride the train, collect the whole set.

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@marcjoffe Exactly. More "make-work" and that cost will be escalated higher and higher.

As we have said, look to BART TV and April's audit committee report and the general BOD meeting.

BART will avoid oversight by disrupting the accountability processes. Very alarming.

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@sfchronicle Most important is for BART to demonstrate reform and correct management misconduct before any consideration of funds can be made. We hope to bring great depth and detail to the public eye in the months ahead.

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Ironic that BART complains other people don’t pay thier bills while BART leaves disabled workers with cancer out in the cold without basic disability benefits.

Perhaps BART can’t manage phone bill payment monitoring because thier efforts are spent on defrauding disabled employees.

Credibility? LOL

Typical BART.

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@SFBartSux @Bartfare @SFBART BART hires outside lawyers to fight internal BART investigations. Public record from the April board of directors meeting and audit committee report. Astonishing.

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@marcjoffe @AbbyNormalSF Now the efforts must shift to demonstrating the waste fraud and abuse within the agencies.

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@DanielLurie Sounds like the Hondo’s have a new customer.

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@Bartfare @SFBART Everything is under-reported, which apparently is the same as crime reduction.

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@thomashawk @ChadBianco No you effectively voted for a Democrat. Wrong move IMHO.

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@Bartfare @SFBART He had a ticket, right?

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@Bartfare @SFBART It's a tricky situation. People will just close that personal space gap. That will lead to more violence and discourage ridership.

The solution is to actually punish fare evaders. Make it an actual crime that comes with penalties that make it unrewarding.

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@SFBART Stisfaction??

Sounds about right.

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@jreidgreer Nobody is going to do anything. It’s part of the “bail us out or we will get even worse” extortion campaign.

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@Scott_Wiener Did you photoshop out the black folks or is Wiener’s world “best city”one without them?

Asking for a friend.

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Happy Mother's Day.

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Payroll at #BART is 750,000,000 annually. Big number.

Roughly a third to almost half of that is spent on management salaries and benefits due to the 1-4 manager to employee ratio.

20% of managers are redundant by BARTs own proof of concept “no work Tuesdays” for managers. That’s 72 million dollars a year already wasted.

A further reduction to meet a reasonable yet still chubby, 1-10 manager to employee ratio brings an additional savings of around 150,000,000 annually, give or take.

Modest useable real estate divestment and increases in employee productivity by elimination of waste frauds and abuse easily fill the funding gap for years to come - and we can achieve this TODAY.

#BART’s position is they prefer other options. Frankly nobody should care what BART “prefers”.

BART has run the system into the ground, it it time to right size and again, it can be done TODAY - without dropping a single train from service or curtailing any hours of operation.

Over 1,000 managers on active payroll and the best deficit reduction plan they could come up with ways to sell BART pillows.

Seriously that’s the best plan 1,000 managers - purportedly the most talented and capable 200 to 300k a year and more - can buy. Another proof of failure that BART cannot manage itself.

It does require immediate divestment of bad actors in management including HR, legal and executive departments and won’t cost taxpayers a penny.

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@war24182236 Yup, that's how #BART is getting their free money ballot measure signatures.

Unbelievable. Every signature felony fraud, similar to how BART operates.

@war24182236 good job - keep exposing them!

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Here you can get bad actors in public agencies and insurance companies at the same time.

Total win-win. DM and I’ll get you in touch with the victims.

#BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) is actively committing fraud against workers stricken with cancer and other serious disabilities by denying and delaying basic disability payments. Enterprise level fraud. Over 90% surveyed fraud. This is a public emergency situation.

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@BonnieL27773370 @Jules31415 That made me laugh.

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@SFBART @us712171 Penalty Fare? Penalty Fare?

Fare evaders pay nothing and BART has Penalty Fares for the people that actually do pay?

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@Fr0z3nW1nt3r Not unfund, defund.

BART has the ability to rightsize and not need a penny of bailout money for at least the next four years and likely not even then.

Giving BART free money is like putting and old dog on an unlimited doughnut diet. No good will come of it.