BART officials are poised next month to spend approximately $47 million for the development of new fare gates in an effort to crack down on fare evasion.
Infrastructure officials with the transit agency formally recommended Thursday that BART should award a contract to Virginia-based STraffic America for the first phase of replacing some 700 fare gates across all of BART’s stations.
While BART has yet to decide on a final design for the new fair gates, they are expected to have a clear swinging door rather than the current gates’ orange fins.
BART officials argue it will be significantly harder to push through, jump over or otherwise evade the