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Thursday's budget proposal is just the first step in a long process that won't conclude until the fall, and New Starts has enjoyed wide support, even in a fiscally conservative, Republican-dominated Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But major Bay Area transit agencies are expressing concern, because the program figures prominently in plans to aid a series of ambitious projects that local officials say are crucial to adding capacity to the region's overtaxed transit services. 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The grants are contingent on a range of factors, including obtaining local and state funding and a sound financial plan, including making sure transit agencies are prepared to pay for cost overruns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Caltrain electrification project was \u003ca href=\"https://www.enotrans.org/article/usdot-puts-bay-area-commuter-rail-project-hold/\" target=\"_blank\">at the very threshold\u003c/a> of getting its final funding agreement in place last month when the Department of Transportation put the funding request on hold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seamus Murphy, Caltrain's chief spokesman, said in an email from Washington, D.C., on Thursday that the electrification proposal \"continues to be in limbo.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The project checks all of the boxes that the administration has said it wants to accomplish through infrastructure investment,\" Murphy said. \"Caltrain electrification is the most shovel-ready transit project in the country, and we hope to be counted as an existing FFGA in whatever budget is ultimately approved.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART's grant request is a key part of its plan to expand service between the East Bay and San Francisco. 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"content": "\u003cp>When BART developed its budget for the current fiscal year, which runs from last July 1 through this June 30, it made what seems like a natural assumption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency had seen several years of dramatic growth in the number of passengers using the system, especially on weekdays. So staff estimated that, even though there were signs that ridership growth was slowing down, the system would continue to see more people board its trains during this fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For BART managers, the agency's board of directors and system patrons alike, the number of people riding is more than a matter of academic interest or personal comfort. Train fares are BART's biggest single source of cash, and they're a key factor in the agency's annual budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As things have turned out, the slowdown in ridership growth BART saw in early 2016 has turned into an actual decrease in the number of people using the trains. And that trend, coupled with lower-than-expected growth in the district's sales tax proceeds, spells budget trouble that could impact passengers who continue to crowd onto the system's rush-hour trains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a budget update delivered to the BART Board of Directors on Thursday, staff reported that average weekday ridership between July 1 and Dec. 31, 2016 was down nearly 1 percent from the same period the previous year. A glance at the district's ridership report for January shows the trend has continued into this year, with total weekday ridership down about 4.5 percent from January 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What kind of financial hit does that add up to for BART?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district reported bringing in $480 million in fare revenue for fiscal 2015-16 and projected an increase of about 6 percent, to $510 million, for this fiscal year. BART financial staff now projects the agency will collect about $492 million in fares -- $18 million less than forecast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's one silver lining for BART in the ridership and revenue numbers, though: The number of passengers riding between the East Bay and San Francisco on weekdays is actually up 1 percent over last year. Those are longer trips with higher fares and have softened the overall loss of revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the district is facing an estimated $15 million to $25 million budget deficit for the year ending June 30; another shortfall of as much as $35 million is forecast for the 2017-2018 fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, we've done the numbers. What might they mean for BART riders?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART staff presented the board with a series of options. A majority of board members have expressed support for some of the ideas, like a crackdown on fare evasion and expanding advertising opportunities at the system's stations. Other proposals include automating trains so they no longer require an operator, raising parking fees and imposing a new fee on Silicon Valley employee shuttles that pick up and drop off passengers at BART stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Carter Mau, the head of BART's office of planning and budget, said the board will have to go beyond these measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The sum of all these categories together will not be able to address the deficit we are facing,\" Mau said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He told the board it would need to consider steps like raising the district's base fare -- the minimum amount it charges for a ride ($1.95, or $3.20 for the shortest transbay trip) -- and reducing the discount for youth and senior passengers. He said the district could save money through better timing of its allocations for long-term capital projects. And he noted that the agency has already imposed a freeze on hiring 160 approved positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mau added that some major service cuts might be necessary for BART to save its budget shortfall. That could involve eliminating the first hour of weekday service, which now begins at 4 a.m., and cutting direct early evening service from San Francisco to Richmond and Fremont.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rebecca Saltzman, the BART board president, said she's concerned that a cycle of reduced service, reduced ridership and reduced revenue would threaten the district's ability to continue reinvesting some of its operating income for capital projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reducing service \"should be the absolute last thing that we consider,\" Saltzman said. \"I think it would be a really big mistake.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board member John McPartland, who has an extensive history in emergency services, echoed that sentiment. \"In medical terms, we call that circling the drain, and it leads nowhere good,\" McPartland said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Debora Allen, a board member elected in November as a budget hawk, said the agency needs to address its long-term retiree pension and medical costs. 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Rush-hour runs are sometimes so packed that passengers can't board and are left to wait for the next train, or the one after that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's a situation BART promises will ease as it introduces its \u003ca href=\"https://www.bart.gov/about/projects/cars/new-features\" target=\"_blank\">Fleet of the Future train cars\u003c/a> over the next five years or so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's cold comfort for today's commuters, though, and BART's on the verge of adopting what its staff calls \"short-term capacity improvements.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Again, if you're a regular BART rider, you have likely seen what these \"improvements\" look like: The agency has experimented with three alternative configurations in which seats are removed to make more room for people to stand on and move through cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one configuration, seven single seats replace the double seats along one side of the car's central aisle. In another, four double seats in the center of the car -- eight in all -- are removed. In a third pattern, four double seats -- again, eight seats in all -- are removed just inside one of the cars' entry doors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11295502\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/bartseating.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11295502\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/bartseating-800x563.png\" alt=\"Three different seating configurations that BART tested as part of effort to add passenger capacity.\" width=\"800\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/bartseating-800x563.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/bartseating-160x113.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/bartseating-240x169.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/bartseating-375x264.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/bartseating-520x366.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/bartseating.png 934w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three different seating configurations that BART tested as part of effort to add passenger capacity. \u003ccite>(BART)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>BART's board of directors is expected to vote next week on a staff proposal to adopt one of the new configurations -- and remove thousands of seats from the system's 669-car fleet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board President Rebecca Saltzman acknowledges the agency is walking a tricky line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART customer satisfaction is at \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/01/26/bart-survey-passenger-satisfaction-at-all-time-low/\" target=\"_blank\">an all-time low\u003c/a> -- \"all time\" comprising surveys conducted every two years since 1996. Crowding is a big reason people are unhappy, though the most recent customer survey found that passengers who manage to get a seat are generally much more pleased with their BART experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fewer seats wouldn't seem likely to make the masses any less crabby. And as BART itself has noted, passenger dissatisfaction is likely a factor in a ridership decline that, although small so far, could affect the agency's bottom line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a difficult situation right now,\" Saltzman said. \"Ideally, we'd have a lot more space for people both to sit and to stand. But we're at the point of making a decision: Do we have more places for people to sit? Or are some people going to be passed up entirely and not be able to ride BART?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a BART survey, the most popular alternative seating configuration was replacing the double seats along one side of the train with seven single seats. BART says 54 percent of passengers surveyed after riding those cars said the trip was better than on the agency's regular cars; 32 percent said the ride was worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11295525\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/bartsurvey.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11295525\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/bartsurvey-800x564.png\" alt=\"BART surveyed riders about three alternative seating configurations. \" width=\"800\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/bartsurvey-800x564.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/bartsurvey-160x113.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/bartsurvey-240x169.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/bartsurvey-375x265.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/bartsurvey-520x367.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/bartsurvey.png 930w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">BART surveyed riders about three alternative seating configurations. \u003ccite>(BART)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In addition to being somewhat more popular with riders, that configuration \"is the one that really opens up the car so there's no choke point,\" Saltzman said. \"There's not the narrow aisle down the car, people can spread out quite a bit and there's room for luggage, strollers, things like that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its meeting next week, the board is expected to act on a December staff proposal to modify 380 cars with the new layout. Removing seven seats from each of those cars would result in a loss of 2,660 seats. BART staff calculates, though, that about three people will be able to stand in each space where a seat has been removed. Our back of the envelope math suggests that would result in a theoretical net capacity gain of about 5,000 passengers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The seat removal project would take most of the year to complete and cost $1.7 million. BART expects a grant from the Metropolitan Transportation Commission to cover the cost.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The survey says 74 percent of those who got to sit said they were satisfied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The previous low point in BART customer satisfaction came in 1998, and much of the survey presentation to the BART board on Wednesday focused on the measures the agency took then to respond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Passengers in 1998 named a host of problems that made riding BART unpleasant, including station agent availability, fare gate reliability, personnel courtesy, lines at exit gates, escalator availability, seat availability, elevator availability, train temperature, train cleanliness, noise level, station cleanliness, public address announcements and personal security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's a familar-sounding list, with 2016 respondents naming many of the same complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The survey notes that in 1998, the BART board responded with a $1.2 billion reinvestment program. 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And we're not aware of any free taxi ride programs in the Bay Area this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you really want to get in a car, you could use \u003ca href=\"http://newsroom.aaa.com/safety/holiday-safe-ride-program/\" target=\"_blank\">AAA's \"Tipsy Tow\" program\u003c/a> to call 1-800-AAA-HELP for a free tow up to 10 miles, or \u003ca href=\"https://www.dryver.com/cities/san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\">hire your own designated driver\u003c/a> -- which is pretty much the opposite of \"free.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or just take one of the many, many public transit options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2016/news20161214\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>BART\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There will be regular service until 8 p.m., and then BART will run special extended service from 8 p.m. to 3 a.m. During that time, BART will use a stop-skipping schedule to minimize overcrowding. Pittsburg/Bay Point and Richmond trains will not stop at Embarcadero; Dublin/Pleasanton and Fremont trains will not stop at Montgomery Street, and will not stop at West Oakland after the midnight \u003ca href=\"http://sf.funcheap.com/san-francisco-new-years-eve-fireworks/\">fireworks show\u003c/a> in San Francisco. Check\u003ca href=\"http://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2016/news20161214\" target=\"_blank\"> the BART announcement \u003c/a>for full details. BART will not be free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/calendar/alerts/ride-muni-free-extra-service-new-years-eve\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Muni\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Free rides for everyone! SFMTA will have free rides from 8 p.m. on Saturday to 5 a.m. on Sunday, Jan. 1. Do not tag your Clipper Card during this time or it will be charged. Some extra service is scheduled, though there is currently no rerouting planned or street closures. Check \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/calendar/alerts/ride-muni-free-extra-service-new-years-eve\" target=\"_blank\">the SFMTA\u003c/a> for information on all route changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.caltrain.com/schedules/holidayservice.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Caltrain\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrain will also have free service starting at 8 p.m. on Dec. 31. Post-fireworks, there will be service at 12:45 a.m., 1: 15 a.m., 1:45 a.m., and 2:15 a.m. leaving from the main San Francisco station at Fourth and King streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.actransit.org/2016/12/22/free-rides-new-year%E2%80%99s-eve/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>AC Transit\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AC Transit rides will be free from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. And you may want to check the schedule for their \u003ca href=\"http://www.actransit.org/rider-info/stops/all-nighter/#800\" target=\"_blank\">All Nighter bus lines\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.samtrans.com/about/MediaRelations/news/SamTrans_to_Offer_Free_Service_on_New_Year_s_Eve__Sunday_Schedule_on_New_Year_s_Day.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>SamTrans\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All buses will be free from 8 p.m. Saturday to 5 a.m. on Sunday. 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