BART stations will soon feature new fare gates intended to prevent fare evasion after the transit agency's governing board unanimously approved a $47 million contract on Thursday.
BART awarded the contract to Virginia-based STraffic America for the first phase of replacing some 700 fare gates across all of BART's stations.
The project will ultimately cost an estimated $90 million to replace the fare gates at every station by 2026, according to BART. "We look forward to working with the BART team and providing new technology, new fare gates and, more importantly, the highest performance and the best possible customer experience to all riders in the Bay Area," said Paul Korczak, a consultant with STraffic.
"The project will go a long way in curbing the bad behavior, the drug use, the cleanliness issues, the crime that our riders are forced to live with every time they get on a train," BART Board Director Debora Allen said."It's imperative to our customer experience and the return of riders to get this done as quickly as possible."
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