My last post was so long...I saved this gem for its own $$$$$$$$Story. BART purchased the office building at 2000 Broadway in Uptown Oakland, with the sale closing on August 14, 2024. The Board authorized the purchase for a new police…

Vegas was at its best when it was owned by the Mob. After Nevada passed the Corporate Gaming Act, it allowed giant corporations to take over, and Vegas hasn't been the same since.

...and notice they don't say they'll lose a thousand workers. They say they lose UNION workers. Who do you think really runs BART.

From 1989 until NOW, they have sat on that Merrit Lake property... Anything they build now will cost 10 or 20 times more than it would have then. But then...by now they'd be wanting us to pay for 20 year…

The story says: "The transit system faces annual budget shortfalls of hundreds of millions of dollars." I would say more accurately, they; ..."annually face annual budget shortfalls...." " We gave them and will pay for decades, Measure RR sales tax…

NO MORE TAXES. THIS STATE IS TAXING US TO DEATH.

having grown up in the midwest, I loved lightning and thunder (particularly the loud booming crack in the sky). Of course, as a kid, it scared the heck out of me. Well, I was walking the dog this morning, and…

WE DON'T CARE! Trim the fat like UPS, Amazon, Walmart and any other company is doing. NO MORE HANDOUTS AKA BAILOUTS.

They're trying the extremist / alarmist route - don't give in ....say NO! Cut management salaries 15% now! , NO bonuses, gut higher management positions, freeze contracted wages, and NO new hiring for a least 3 years - maybe 5!

Mexico, Spain and any spring break with drunk teens

Disneyland

If only more people would have made an effort to sign the DA recall petition.

No BART bailout without reform! Vote no on this plan and demand BART be run efficiently. It’s worth it even if they carry out their threat to shut it down. Then we can start fresh with better people.

burn it down, BART is rotten to the core. At some point, you have to throw all the cards in the air and start over. This is the time. Very soon their personal copy of Windows XP that is running…

it's important to be correct, thanks for the correction.

My very small violin has to be around here somewhere. . Tactic used governmental agencies, threaten cutting most visible or appreciated service provided when government agency is facing financial problems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Monument_syndrome . Put these words in search engine, transparent ca…

That's called extortion and it is how organized crime works.

I feel like bart is acting like a bully, pay up or we shut down. Maybe they start at the top & get rid some of the board members & the huge salires they all have, or instead of us…

Now they're trying to scare people. Let them file bankruptcy. All they're going to do is blow this on raises, then cry that they need more money.

Cut costs. Reduce overhead. Eliminate defined benefit retirement plans (pensions) and replace with defined contribution retirement plans (457, similar to a 401k). This is not an income problem. It is a self-inflicted out-go problem. The evidence of this are future…