"Remember when the Chronicle was one of the chief promulgators of the "doom loop" storyline, breathlessly suggesting, on a weekly basis, that San Francisco was headed for an unavoidable death spiral and everything sucked and everyone was going to leave? Well, as we can see, that didn't come to pass. And several months after the newspaper went whole hog on that, in mid-2023, someone over there started to question the wisdom of the hometown newspaper also being the hometown's naysayer-in-chief,"
""New BART fare gates generate $10 million annually for a dying rail system." Now, it should be a positive news story about how things maybe, in one small way, are turning around for BART after six years of pretty gloomy news. The evader-proof fare gates, which are now installed at all 50 stations in the BART system, are estimated to be generating an extra $10 million per year, which should help things a bit in the years ahead."
Evader-proof fare gates now operate at all 50 BART stations and are estimated to generate about $10 million in additional annual revenue. The gates have reduced unauthorized access, resulting in fewer incidents of vandalism and a reported savings of 961 maintenance hours. Reduced cleanup and maintenance workloads free staff time and lower operating costs. These gains provide modest financial relief amid longstanding fiscal concerns for the transit system. The revenue and maintenance improvements represent a small turnaround after years of gloomy financial reports and could help BART address budgetary pressures going forward.
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