“They get the same folks in the community to say ‘whoa is BART,'” said State Sen. Steve Glazer. “My view is they are enablers.”
One of the Bay Area Rapid Transit system’s leading critics, State Sen. Steve Glazer, announced his resignation from a special committee handling Bay Area transit on Monday, signaling aahead as the region’s bus and rail agencies lobby for billions of dollars to stave off looming service cuts.
Glazer, an Orinda Democrat, stepped down from the Senate Select Committee on Bay Area Public Transit, which was formed just last week, saying lawmakers and transit leaders are not heeding his call to bolster fiscal oversight at BART, specifically by backing a strengthened inspector general’s office. In an interview, he called the committee, headed by State Sen. Scott Wiener of San Francisco, a “showpiece for boosters of more transit funding.”
“They get the same folks in the community to say ‘woe is BART,'” said Glazer. “My view is they are enablers . . . they are enablers for letting this open sore continue on.” Glazer’s criticism comes amid a contentious battle to fund public transit in Sacramento amid pandemic-era ridership losses that have devastated the Bay Area’s transit system. Agencies like BART need to cobble a coalition of lawmakers to back their funding ask despite a
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