Editing Bay Area Rapid Transit (section)

== Organization and management ==
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!colspan=2|2012 statistics
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|Number of vehicles||670
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|Initial system cost||$1.6&nbsp;billion
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|Equivalent cost in 2004 dollars (replacement cost)||$15&nbsp;billion
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|Hourly passenger capacity||15,000
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|Maximum daily capacity||360,000
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|Average weekday ridership||365,510
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|Annual operating revenue||$379.10&nbsp;million
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|Annual expenses||$619.10&nbsp;million
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|Annual profits (losses)||($240.00&nbsp;million)
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|Rail cost/passenger mile (excluding capital costs)||$0.332
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=== Governance ===
The San Francisco [[Bay Area Rapid Transit District]] is a special district consisting of [[Alameda County, California|Alameda County]], [[Contra Costa County, California|Contra Costa County]], and the [[San Francisco|City and County of San Francisco]]. [[San Mateo County, California|San Mateo County]], which hosts six BART stations, and [[Santa Clara County]], which hosts two, are not part of the BART District. A nine-member elected Board of Directors represents nine districts. BART has its own [[Bay Area Rapid Transit Police Department|police]] force.<ref>{{Cite web |title=BART Police |url=http://www.bart.gov/about/police/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090826151055/http://www.bart.gov/about/police/ |archive-date=August 26, 2009 |access-date=August 23, 2009 |publisher=BART}}</ref>

While the district includes all of the cities and communities in its jurisdiction, some of these cities do not have stations on the BART system. This has caused tensions among property owners in cities like [[Livermore, California|Livermore]] who pay BART taxes but must travel outside the city to receive BART service.<ref>{{Cite news |date=July 17, 2003 |title=BART's Livermore role reviewed |publisher=Contra Costa Times |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=CC&s_site=contracostatimes&p_multi=CC&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=1064A15771213A81&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D |access-date=August 23, 2009}}</ref> In areas like Fremont, the majority of commuters do not commute in the direction that BART would take them (many Fremonters commute to San Jose).{{Citation needed|date=May 2021}} This would be remedied with the completion of the [[Silicon Valley BART extension]]. Phase I of the extension opened on June 13, 2020, giving San Jose its first BART station, [[Berryessa/North San José station]].

==== BART Board of Directors ====
{| class="wikitable"
!District
!Stations Included
!Counties Included
!Board Member
|-
|1
|Concord, Lafayette, Pleasant Hill/Contra Costa Centre, Walnut Creek
|Contra Costa
|Debora Allen
|-
|2
|Antioch, Concord (partial), North Concord/Martinez, Pittsburg/Bay Point, Pittsburg Center
|Contra Costa
|Mark Foley
|-
|3
|Bay Fair, Downtown Berkeley, El Cerrito del Norte (partial), El Cerrito Plaza (partial), North Berkeley, Orinda, Rockridge, San Leandro
|Alameda/Contra Costa
|Rebecca Saltzman
|-
|4
|Bay Fair, Coliseum, Fruitvale, Hayward (partial), Oakland International Airport, San Leandro, and South Hayward (partial)
|Alameda
|Robert Raburn
|-
|5
|Castro Valley, Dublin/Pleasanton, Hayward, West Dublin/Pleasanton
|Alameda
|John McPartland
|-
|6
|Fremont, South Hayward (partial), Union City, Warm Springs/South Fremont
|Alameda
|Liz Ames
|-
|7
|Ashby, El Cerrito del Norte (partial), El Cerrito Plaza (partial), MacArthur (partial), Montgomery (partial), Richmond, West Oakland, Embarcadero (partial)
|Alameda/Contra Costa/San Francisco
|[[Lateefah Simon]]
|-
|8
|Balboa Park, Embarcadero (partial), Glen Park (partial), Montgomery (partial), Powell Street (partial)
|San Francisco
|Janice Li
|-
|9
|16th Street Mission, 24th Street Mission, Glen Park, Civic Center, Powell Street, Balboa Park (partial)
|San Francisco
|[[Bevan Dufty]]
|}

==== BART General Managers ====
* [[B. R. Stokes]] (1963–1974)
* Larry Dahms (Acting)
* Frank Herringer
* Keith Bernard
* Frank Wilson (1989–1994)
* [[Richard A. White]] (1994–1996)
* [[Thomas Margro]] (1996–2007)
* [[Dorothy Dugger]] (2007–2011)
* [[Grace Crunican]] (2011–2019)
* Bob Powers (2019–present)

=== Budget ===
In 2005, BART required nearly $300&nbsp;million in funds after fares. About 37% of the costs went to maintenance, 29% to actual transportation operations, 24% to general administration, 8% to police services, and 4% to construction and engineering. In 2005, 53% of the budget was derived from fares, 32% from taxes, and 15% from other sources, including advertising, station retail space leasing, and parking fees.<ref name="bart_ar">{{Cite report |url=http://www.bart.gov/docs/AR2005.pdf |title=BART 2005 Annual Report |date=2005 |access-date=August 28, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060922203544/http://www.bart.gov/docs/AR2005.pdf |archive-date=September 22, 2006 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite report |url=http://www.bart.gov/docs/AR2005.pdf |title=BART 2005 Annual Report |date=2005 |access-date=August 28, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060922203544/http://www.bart.gov/docs/AR2005.pdf |archive-date=September 22, 2006 |url-status=dead }}</ref> BART reported a [[farebox recovery ratio]] of 75.67% in February 2016,<ref>{{Cite web |title=BART 2016 Factsheet |url=https://www.bart.gov/sites/default/files/docs/2016Factsheet_v11.pdf |access-date=April 18, 2016 |website=BART.gov |publisher=Bay Area Rapid Transit}}</ref> up from 2012's 68.2%.<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=December 6, 2012 |title=Sustainable BART |url=http://news.theregistrysf.com/sustainable-bart/ |magazine=The Registry SF}}</ref> BART train operators and station agents have a maximum salary of $62,000 per year with an average of $17,000 in overtime pay.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Griffin |first=Melissa |date=June 13, 2013 |title=BART labor seeking more money for not laboring |work=[[The San Francisco Examiner]] |url=http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/bart-labor-seeking-more-money-for-not-laboring/Content?oid=2459157}}</ref> (BART management claimed that in 2013, union train operators and station agents averaged about $71,000 in base salary and $11,000 in overtime, and pay a $92 monthly fee from that for health insurance.)<ref>{{Cite news |date=July 3, 2013 |title=San Francisco rail strike continues as commuters face third day of chaos |work=[[The Guardian]] |agency=[[Associated Press|AP]] |location=London |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/03/san-francisco-bart-rail-strike}}</ref>