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Tom Radulovich

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2012

    BART Says It's Cleaned Poop and Pee From Most Broken Escalators

    It's been challenging to walk up and down the broken BART escalators as of late without thinking of how much poop and pee is caked inside the broken stairs. Fortunately, BART has been hard at work, cleaning up and fixing those public escalators that had become the dumping ground -- literally -- for ... More >>

  • News

    July 27, 2011

    Inefficient by Design: San Francisco's Commissions Are Uncountable — and Unaccountable

    It's been challenging to walk up and down the broken BART escalators as of late without thinking of how much poop and pee is caked inside the broken stairs. Fortunately, BART has been hard at work, cleaning up and fixing those public escalators that had become the dumping ground -- literally -- for ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2011

    Nat Ford's Legacy

    Jim HerdDid you know that missed runs don't count in Muni's on-time rate? Nat Ford did. ​Muni transports 700,000 riders a day, and every one of them's a critic. Local passengers -- and journalists -- come to bury Muni, not praise it. But it warrants mentioning that the journeys locals see fit to c ... More >>

  • News

    February 9, 2011

    Most BART Riders Escape Tickets for Eating and Drinking

    Jim HerdDid you know that missed runs don't count in Muni's on-time rate? Nat Ford did. ​Muni transports 700,000 riders a day, and every one of them's a critic. Local passengers -- and journalists -- come to bury Muni, not praise it. But it warrants mentioning that the journeys locals see fit to c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2011

    BART Considers Cleaner, but Less Comfortable Seats

    You are supposed to sit, not shit on the seat​We all know how utterly disgusting a trip on BART is -- the seats are coated in years of grease and grime and the carpet is as sanitary as a Porta Potti.But alas, BART trains are nearing the end of their life expectancy, and the transit agency will nee ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2011

    BART Oakland Airport Connector Gets More Expensive

    Pretty -- and pretty costly​A controller's memo sent to BART officials yesterday warned that constructing the controversial $484 million Oakland Airport Connector will drain millions more away from the system's general fund than previously believed. BART's failure to secure a $105 million Transpor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 24, 2010

    BART Votes To Change Station's Name -- But Not Pay For It

    Cheers! Now let's go to the Centre...​Legions of future BART riders will misspell the name of the forthcoming Contra Costa Centre -- yes, Centre --  station following a vote by the transit agency's board of directors yesterday. The board voted 7-1, with only Carole Ward Allen objecting, to re ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2010

    Will BART Spend Big Bucks To Change Station's Name?

    Take us to the 'Centre'! Tally-ho!​BART's board of directors is scheduled today to vote on whether the name of one of its stations should be made longer, more complicated -- and more expensive. At the behest of both municipal and corporate interests, BART may today opt to change the name of Pleasa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2010

    Oakland Airport Connector Project Wins Funding

    BARTHere it comes, whether you like it or not...​The Oakland Airport Connector project is not unlike a zombie -- it's terrible and it stinks, but you just can't kill it. The Metropolitan Transportation Commission today approved applying $20 million in state funds toward the projected $484 million ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2010

    BART Approves Oakland Airport Connector, Punts on Unpopular Fare Rollback

    The project that just won't die ... won't die​BART's board today tabled the vote on the fare rollback no one wants and approved the Oakland Airport Connector no one needs. By an 8-1 vote, the board approved the revamped $483 million connector project, which was dealt a staggering blow when ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2010

    BART Riders Not Thrilled With Bogus Fare Reduction

    BART riders: Cleanliness is next to Godliness​Those embittered with the state of society invariably mutter that, in a democracy, the people always get the government they deserve. But if that's the case -- and it is -- then BART riders deserve both credit, and excellent transportation. We've writt ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2010

    How Does BART Manage to Spend $15,000 Per Car on 'Deep Cleaning'?

    ​This morning, the Chronicle ran an eye-catching little story about BART. Its synopsis: Half of the $4.5 million allotted for temporary fare rollbacks has been siphoned off into BART directors' "pet projects" -- including an astounding $750,000 to "deep clean" 50 train cars. That's $15,000 a car, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2010

    It's No Secret Why Muni Abandoned Bus Stop Consolidation

    Not going anywhere, it would seem...​The San Francisco Examiner today had a story noting that the idea of bus and train stop consolidation, pushed as a remedy that could save Muni millions by speeding up vehicles, has just as speedily fallen off the radar. The Ex does a downright public service by ... More >>

  • News

    April 14, 2010

    The Muni Death Spiral

    Your transit system is terribly inefficient, extremely slow, and wildly expensive. Here’s how you can fix it.

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2010

    BART has 'Stockholm Syndrome,' Board Member Says

    Wait, that's not Stockholm...​Let's not mince words here: The BART board's asinine idea of using one-time state funds to temporarily save riders a few pennies for every ride is pandering to the electorate at its most blatant. It's bad transit policy. Hell, it's bad fiscal policy. The only thing it ... More >>

  • News

    April 7, 2010

    If BART reopens its public restrooms, then the terrorists win

    Wait, that's not Stockholm...​Let's not mince words here: The BART board's asinine idea of using one-time state funds to temporarily save riders a few pennies for every ride is pandering to the electorate at its most blatant. It's bad transit policy. Hell, it's bad fiscal policy. The only thing it ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2010

    BART Still Pondering Why Virtually New Coupling Device Fell Apart

    ​In the wake of this morning's incident in the BART transbay tube -- in which a coupling device fractured, splitting a nine-car train into five- and four-car segments -- the agency and its riders were left with three unsettling possibilities: This was due to a lack of maintenance on BART's aging f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2010

    It's Your Friday Morning News Quiz -- Incentivized Via a Prize!

    It's fun! It's educational! All right -- you win free shit! Send us your perfect score here and win a prize! And now...Whose car is this? ​1. Did you know the winner of NASCAR's Daytona 500 was given a hero's welcome in San Francisco this week? Of course you didn't. By the way -- who won the Dayto ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2010

    BART Board Member Describes BART as 'Pyramid Scheme'

    ...Step three: Profit!​Like many transit advocates SF Weekly contacted this week, BART board member Tom Radulovich was relieved that the feds yanked $70 million from the controversial Oakland Airport Connector project, with the funds instead heading to Muni, BART and the Bay Area's other cash-stra ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2010

    Transit Advocates Rejoice as $70M Shunted From Airport Connector to Muni, BART, Others

    Celebrate good times -- BART and Muni won the lottery!​Public transit advocates are all but dancing in the aisles of public transit following a ruling that yanked $70 million in federal funding away from the controversial Oakland Airport Connector and led to moribund local transit agencies being s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2010

    Board Members Predict Even Feds' Threats Can't Derail Oakland Airport Connector

    ​What will it take to derail BART's half-billion dillar planned extension to Oakland Airport? How about the price quadrupling while the anticipated ridership dropped by two-thirds? Nope. How about the predicted commute time actually being slower than the existing shuttle system? Nope. Well, how ab ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2010

    Transit Advocates Wait For MTA Board to Knuckle Under to Mayor

    Jim Herd​When you're watching Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, there's always a fleeting thought, part-way through, that this time Shylock is going to prevail and humble those feckless, bigoted aristocrats who consider him a subhuman. Never happens. Can't happen. It's not in the script. In a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 30, 2009

    BART Contract With Controversial Builder May Result in Loss of $800K in State Funds

    ​In a definite candidate for the ironic hall of fame, the BART board last week awarded part of a multi-million dollar contract to Nedar Bey -- who had earlier accused that very board of being "servants of the devil." Fittingly, hundreds of thousands of dollars in government money may be going stra ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2009

    Bay Area Flush With Exciting Plans to Blow Money on Useless Transit Projects

    The ongoing slow motion debacle that is San Francisco's Central Subway just got a little competition from across the Bay -- last night the BART board approved a $550 million version of the Disney monorail to connect the Coliseum station and airport. While we're outspending our East Bay neighbors by ... More >>

  • News

    July 23, 2008

    Subway Daze

    BART fears city subway project poses danger to busy downtown S.F. station.

  • News

    March 5, 2008

    SF Supervisor Aaron Peskin's Message to Newsom: Quit Attacking Me!

    BART fears city subway project poses danger to busy downtown S.F. station.

  • Blogs

    October 31, 2007

    Halloween Headlines: Cops, BART, Parking, Protests, Funerals

    BART fears city subway project poses danger to busy downtown S.F. station.

  • News

    January 3, 2007

    Porkmistress Pelosi

    Madam Speaker says she wants to tame pork-barrel spenders. Takes one to know one.

  • News

    December 20, 2006

    They Put Up a Parking Lot

    Chris Daly made his rep getting arrested at a garage protest that somehow ended up creating a coffee kiosk

  • News

    July 5, 2006

    Hard to Be Really Green

    Let's scrap the city's weak, pale-green environmental standards and actually take the total environment into account

  • News

    February 1, 2006

    Clang, Clang, Clang Went the New Subway

    The billion-dollar Central Subway transportation plan may collapse under its own expanding weight

  • News

    December 21, 2005

    Pretty Rowdy in Pink

    How some ladies from S.F. will harass Hillary Clinton into being the tipping point against the Iraq War

  • News

    June 16, 2004

    Tower Inferno

    Mayor Newsom aids a developer at the apparent expense of the Transbay Terminal project, raising a question: Is the new boss just like the old boss?

  • News

    December 10, 2003

    Subwaylaid

    Why the new mayor should spend his political honeymoon taking the doggle out of a boondoggle known as the Central Subway

  • News

    September 13, 2000

    Taking Back the Plaza

    Neighbors of BART's seedy 16th and Mission station hope a new look will give it new life

  • News

    January 20, 1999

    No More Free Ride?

    Sierra Club wants BART parkers to pay

  • News

    October 30, 1996

    State and National Candidates

    Sierra Club wants BART parkers to pay

  • Calendar

    October 2, 1996

    The Grid

    Sierra Club wants BART parkers to pay

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