A sales tax will be put in front of voters in five Bay Area counties this November to fund the Bay Area Rapid Transit system (BART).
Senate Bill 63 was passed in order to place the ballot question in Alameda, Contra Costa, Santa Clara, San Mateo and San Francisco counties. The sales tax is 0.5% in all counties except for San Francisco, which would have a 1% sales tax.
BART director Liz Ames and BART local government and community relations manager Bradley Dunn led a presentation on the transit system’s updates at the Newark City Council meeting on June 25. Updates included secure faregates, credit card readers and cleaner and safer stations with increased BART police presence…