BART Annual Report: Measure RR Rebuilding Program

BART Measure RR Rebuilding Program

Courtesy of BART

SAN FRANCISCO – The Bond Oversight Committee held a meeting assessing Bay Area Rapid Transit’s annual report and how it shows its commitment to rebuilding infrastructure.

Bay Area Rapid Transit put out a news article yesterday that details its rebuilding efforts. As part of its Measure RR rebuilding program, BART issued an annual report from a panel of experts, and the report was presented yesterday to its Board of Directors. The Measure RR rebuilding program is a bond measure totaling $3.5 billion and was approved by San Francisco, Contra Costa, and Alameda voters in 2016. 

The 42-page report discusses public impacts of large projects and the potential of future track shutdowns. It also shows that $1.57 billion has been invested in the rebuild of BART. According to the news article, there are “152 RR-supported projects that are in planning, design, construction, or have been completed. A total of 48 projects are complete, up from 36 when the committee issued its previous annual report in 2022.” 

Almost half of the work has been completed, and the Bond Oversight Committee detailed its progress since 2016. The committee believes BART is completing these projects in a timely manner, “and that the work is improving the reliability and safety of the system.”

Over the past year, BART listed out its accomplishments which include a completion of traction power cable replacement work in downtown San Francisco, restoration of the Transbay Tube retrofit, a reduction in rail-related service delays, modernization projects for stations in downtown San Francisco and Oakland, and $700 million “in climate-certified Green Bonds to ensure uninterrupted funding of RR projects.”

The Bond Oversight Committee holds meetings every quarter to go over the Measure RR rebuilding program and have access to all BART documents. Additionally, it “has a mandate to monitor the public impacts of large construction projects.” In so doing, it is focused on BART’s spending and how it matches “what was promised to voters.”