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On February 12, SFCTA Vice Chair Danny Sauter (District 3), Transportation Authority Commissioner Chyanne Chen (District 11), and staff joined BART officials General Manager Bob Powers, President Mark Foley, and Directors Janice Li and Edward Wright, to celebrate the delivery of new fare gates at all four downtown San Francisco stations (Embarcadero, Montgomery, Powell, and Civic Center) as part of BART’s Next Generation Fare Gates Project.
Vice Chair Sauter thanked BART staff and partners for their efforts, expressing special appreciation to BART for delivering the downtown fare gate projects in time for planned festivities including San Francisco’s Chinese New Year parade and NBA All Star weekend.
BART’s new fare gates are designed to improve safety, customer experience, accessibility, reliability, and to deter fare evasion at BART stations. In addition to the downtown stations, BART has completed installation of new fare gates at 16th and 24th Street stations, with Glen Park and Balboa Park BART stations to receive upgrades later this year.
BART plans to continue installing new fare gates at stations across the system in the coming months with the goal to finish all BART stations by the end of 2025.
The Transportation Authority provided $12.5 million in Prop L half-cent sales tax funding to support this $90 million systemwide project. The BART fare gate project is one of the first projects to be delivered using voter-approved Prop L transportation sales tax funds, benefiting residents, workers, and visitors across San Francisco and the region.