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BART 50th Anniversary: A Look at the Past, Present and Future of Bay Area Rapid Transit
The transit authority has long been the backbone of our regional economy. For 50 years, people have used it to get to work, the airport, entertainment and shopping. But today, the trains are rather empty.
This graph shows weekday ridership from 6 a.m. to midnight in July 2022. On an average weekday, 133,858 people rode the BART. This is only 32% of pre-COVID ridership in 2019.
As demand evolves, the question arises: will BART survive another 50 years? Andrew Fremier, deputy executive director of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), spoke.
Farmer: “I think we will have BART.”
Sierra: “What will BART look like in 25 to 50 years?”
Farmer: “If I had to imagine…I think it’s a safe bet that BART will be the same institution in 25 years as it is today.”
Why? Fremier emphasizes important long-term investments. The transit system is about to get a whole new fleet of trains.
“We have about 700 vehicles already on the road or in service. Over the next 10 years, several hundred to 1,000 more will be here,” Fremier said.
Each train replacement costs $1 million. Thus, the 1,000 incoming trains will represent an investment of $1 billion over the next decade.
“We’re not going to waste this investment,” Fremier said. “We have to find a way to integrate this in the future.”
While BART is here to stay, its future will be different.
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There are plans for a smoother experience that accommodates new innovations such as driverless cars and autonomous vehicles, making it easier for passengers to get to their destination.
“I think it involves a transportation account,” Fremier said. “Maybe under the Clipper envelope that lets you take advantage of more efficient carpooling technology, automated vehicle technology that can get you to that main line.”
But what will this experience look like? In 50 years, will ride-sharing companies and self-driving vehicles like robot taxis be the new normal?
“Fifty years from now, we’ll see robot taxis everywhere,” said Mark Rosekind, director of safety innovation at Zoox, Amazon’s autonomous vehicle company based in Foster City.
Unlike Uber or Lyft, Zoox will soon offer a carriage-style car where passengers face each other. The vehicle will not have a steering wheel, side mirrors or traditional driving controls.
“It’s basically your own little cocoon where you can sit back and enjoy your ride with optimal air conditioning and whatever music you want,” Rosekind said.
Zoox’s robot taxi service will allow consumers to request a ride through an app. The service has not yet been launched for public use.
“There are already discussions about times in San Francisco where you have a big bus in the middle of the night trying to help some shift workers, we have already had discussions with SFMTA about how to get involved,” said Rosekind. “It’s a perfect circumstance to put a 4-seater robot taxi to move these people, it’s more economical and all-electric.”
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These new innovations were intended to improve accessibility to other forms of public transport planned for the future.
“We have a big extension in San Jose that’s under construction, the high-speed rail to downtown San Francisco with a multi-billion dollar tunnel,” Fremier said. “Work is underway to invest in long-standing rail systems that move people from the valley.”
Fremier says the long-term goal is to find ways for people to avoid using the car by encouraging other public transport options like trains and buses. This will reduce congestion on our roads – a growing problem.
“By comparison, congestion on the freeways has already exceeded pre-pandemic levels,” said Emily Loper, vice president of public policy at the Bay Area Council.
The Bay Area Council has conducted a survey of approximately 200 employers over the past year to identify future travel trends.
“The most recent data shows that employees tend to only come to the office two to three days a week,” Loper said. “These tend to be Tuesday through Thursday.”
According to the July survey, 19% of companies will have employees working remotely permanently. Additionally, 36% of employers already have or plan to reduce office space in the Bay Area because of it.
“In their minds, most people associate travel with commuting and being stuck in traffic on the way to work, but in reality, less than 30% of journeys are made to and from work. come back,” said Nick Josefowitz, chief policy officer at SPUR. “And it’s even lower now that so many people are working from home.”
It’s a reality throughout the Bay Area – transit systems are struggling to pick up riders.
So where does that leave demand for BART’s future? Will the future rival the past?
“I think that’s one of the main challenges,” Fremier said. “I think we have to be aware that it won’t be what it was before.”
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Could innovations like Zoox offering convenient alternatives take over BART like ride-sharing companies have done for taxis?
“It’s our future to train ourselves,” Rosekind said. “In five to 10 years, it might be common to pull out your app to take a bus for part of your trip and a Zoox for another part of the trip.”
The only competition is price. The average ticket price on BART is $3.78. For Zoox, Rosekind says prices will be in the range of Uber and Lyft.
“The cost could be about the same for when we start,” Rosekind said.
For some consumers, the convenience may be worth the price. The question is: will we all need BART in the same way?
“So if they’re going to survive, they actually have to become transit agencies that do a lot more of the majority of the trips that people make,” Josefowitz said. just focused on the journey.”
Will BART’s $1 billion investment today be worth it 50 years from now?
“I think the pandemic and the change in environment probably makes us feel differently about the end of that investment,” Fremier said. “But we’re going to take it one step at a time.”
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Twitter agreed in June to pay a settlement to Peiter Zatko, who served as the company’s chief security officer before being fired in January. The settlement was reached days before Mr Zatko filed his whistleblower complaint in July, in which he accuses the company of failing to protect sensitive user data and lying about security issues. security, the Wall Street Journal first reported.
Rocco Baldelli didn’t ask for a check on Cleveland pitcher James Karinchak late Friday because he wanted to. He asked, the Twins manager said, because he felt he had to.
Because he was pretty sure the Guardians reliever was cheating during Cleveland’s 7-6 victory at Target Field.
In the seventh inning of a game that started an hour and 10 minutes late because of rain at Target Field, Baldelli interrupted an at-bat by Luis Arraez to ask home plate umpire to check Karinchak for foreign substances.
“I think I have an obligation to our players and to our team to do what I think is right,” the manager said. “And I believe it would have been hard for me, and as a group as a whole, to watch their pitcher do the things that he does on the mound in a very upfront and straightforward way of trying to, apparently, alter some things.”
A hard-throwing right-hander whose fastball averages 95 mph, per mlb.com’s baseballsavant, Karinchak went through a routine between each of his pitches on Friday, first touching the back of his head, then mixing the sweat with the rosin bag on the mound.
“I knew people were obviously thinking I was cheating, but I had no worries because it was just sweat and rosin,” Karinchak told reporters. “So, come check.”
Barrett did, even running his fingers through the pitcher’s hair. Pitchers are allowed to use sweat and rosin to improve their grip but cannot use a foreign substance, something baseball began clamping down on during the abbreviated COVID season in 2020.
“On the closers. we’ll check the belt and both hands,” Barrett told a pool reporter. “But I hadn’t had a manager request to check their hair this year. I didn’t find anything.”
The check might have rattled Karinchak, who got Arraez to fly out to left before Correa hit a two-run home run to pull the Twins within 7-6. Karinchak’s next pitch sailed toward infielder Jose Miranda’s head, sending the rookie first baseman to the ground. Baldelli said he didn’t think Karinchak was sending a message, but Miranda wasn’t so sure.
“I don’t know,” the rookie said. “It was tough when Correa hits a homer and the next pitch is at my head. It was weird. Maybe he didn’t want to throw it there; maybe he wanted it. I don’t know. Only he knows.”
Miranda doubled to the left field corner but was stranded at second when Karinchak got Nick Gordon to pop out to left. Emmanuel Clase closed out the game with a 1-2-3 ninth to earn his American League-leading 32nd save.
Karinchak, 26, started the night with a 1-0 record and 1.01 earned-run average in 25 appearances this season. Last June, White Sox color broadcaster Steve Stone noted during a game that Karinchak appeared to be wiping his thumb on a black blotch inside his glove.
“I don’t think I had much of a choice but to go out there and ask for him to be looked at,” Baldelli said. “I don’t plan to be going out there and asking (for checks) on pitchers; that’s not part of what we do. I don’t think that’s something we’re going to see (more of) with the Twins. In this instance, I don’t think there was a choice.”
Asked if he was satisfied with the answer he got from Barrett, Baldelli took a long pause before answering.
“Ted is going to do a very good and honest job out there in his duties, and I know that. I have to clearly trust that he’s going to,” he said. “We asked him to do a check, so he went out there and did that. He didn’t deem what he found to be significant, or even present. He didn’t say anything, but he didn’t find any noticeable substances or stickiness in any of his hair or anything that he checked.”
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There will be another time for an in-depth analysis of Leon Rose’s offseason, a summer that kept the Knicks in their confusion zone between rebuilding and winning now. The short version is that Rose used her lottery pick to clean up her past free agency mistakes and turn them into Jalen Brunson.
He then failed in the Mitchell negotiations, exposing the flaws in the larger asset accumulation plan for a successful trade.
Either this treasure trove of prospects and picks has been overvalued by the Knicks, or Rose and William Wesley aren’t the master negotiators/relationship gurus they’ve been sold on.
At least not when their negotiations involve Ainge. As an NBA source said of Rose signing Brunson, Julius Randle and RJ Barrett for a total of $320 million over the past two summers, “That’s a lot of money for the tournament play. -in.”
But again, we can break down their process some other time. Maybe Rose will finally answer this calendar year’s questions.
In the meantime, the outcome of Mitchell’s negotiations provided a clearer picture of the Knicks’ roster heading into training camp. Of course, potential trades are always looming. Russell Westbrook remains on the block. Cam Reddish wants to leave the Knicks for a bigger role. (“It’s clear that Cam doesn’t belong there,” a source close to the 23-year-old told the Daily News).
But the rotation will certainly not be revised to the level of a Mitchell trade. This allows us to take a clean look at the sequel. Four of the five starting points are essentially locked.
Projected Beginners: Jalen Brunson, Evan Fournier
Backups: Derrick Rose, Quentin Grimes, Immanuel Quickley, Miles McBride.
Breakdown: Brunson was handed a nine-figure contract to serve as top point guard and point guard, bringing clarity to a notoriously evolving position for the Knicks.
Fournier is the Knicks’ best shooter but may not be the best next to Brunson given their defensive shortcomings. Tom Thibodeau may look elsewhere for a starter, with Grimes as the main candidate.
Rose, 33, returns after missing most of last season due to ankle surgery. If Rose is healthy, there will be no minutes for McBride.
Projected Beginners: RJ Barrett, Julius Randle
Backups: Obi Toppin, Cam Reddish, Feron Hunt
Distribution: Barrett and Randle will consume the majority of minutes in these positions. And even when they’re on the bench, Thibodeau will sometimes use a three-guard formation to bolster the offense. In other words, don’t expect more minutes for Toppin or Reddish.
That’s anyone’s guess since the fan base is all behind Toppin, regularly chanting his name at MSG last season as Randle imploded. Reddish, a 2023 free agent, has no clear path to playing time after being acquired for a first-round pick last season.
For Thibodeau, the rules of this strategy are simple: if the Knicks win, criticism and angry reactions are silenced. Like there are two seasons. If they lose, he and Randle become the targets. Just like last season.
Backups: Isaiah Hartenstein, Jericho Sims
Breakdown: Handing Robinson $60 million was a big gamble for the Knicks given injury and fitness issues, but it was nice to see the player rewarded after four seasons on a low-paying contract. The 24-year-old is now the center of today and tomorrow, with hopes he can finally crack 30 minutes a game. Hartenstein provides another element as a point guard and jump shooter, which leaves Sims, an elite but undersized athlete, with little opportunity except injury and foul.
Yes Bank to Approve JC Flowers as Buyer for its $6 Billion Distressed Loan Portfolio
Indian lender Yes Bank is expected to approve the transfer of assets under pressure worth 480 billion rupees ($6 billion) to private equity firm JC Flowers at its next board meeting, it said. said a source directly aware.
A rival consortium led by private equity firm Cerberus and Asset Reconstruction Company of India withdrew its bid after submitting an expression of interest earlier this year, two sources said.
“We carefully assessed the loan accounts and realized there were so many fraudulent and other problematic accounts that collection would have been a challenge,” the second source said.
JC Flowers had submitted an initial offer of Rs 111.83 billion for the entire stressed loan portfolio of Rs 480 billion. The Cerberus-ARCIL consortium was supposed to submit a competing bid by September 7, but they backed out, the sources said.
“Once the board approves the JC Flowers offer, it will take approximately one month for the paperwork to be completed and the assets to be transferred,” the first source said.
Yes Bank, JC Flowers, Cerberus and ARCIL did not immediately respond to an email request for comment.
Lender Yes Bank estimates its gross bad debts may drop to 2% from 13.4% in the June quarter after transferring bad debts to the new asset reconstruction company, it said earlier.
The bank had already provisioned more than 80% of the total value of the loan which will now be transferred to JC Flowers.
Moving troubled loans out of its portfolio is a crucial step for Yes Bank and comes more than two years after the central bank had to step in to take control of the bank after a dramatic rise in toxic assets alarmed investors. investors and depositors, which is a problem. systemic risk for the Indian banking sector.
The lender raised capital worth $1.1 billion by selling up to 10% stake to Carlyle Group and Advent International in August. Capital Trust has also helped its stock soar nearly 40% since June 30.
On the crown passed to George II, then George III (who was the grandson of George II and succeeded him because his father, Prince Frederick, had died) was the first of this line to be born with three names, George William Frederick. And then George III’s son and successor, George IV (born George Augustus Frederick), actually gave his daughter and sole heir a middle name.
However, Princess Charlotte Augusta predeceased her father, so George IV’s younger brother, yet another William Henry, succeeded him as King William IV. (So the current Prince Williamaka William Arthur Philip Louis, who as the reigning monarch’s eldest son is now the Prince of Wales, will probably be William V.)
Then again, William IV also didn’t bother to make it official with any of the ladies in his life, so his myriad children couldn’t succeed him. When he died, the monarchy turned to his niece, who was the only legitimate child of William’s youngest living brother, Prince Edward.
This niece was queen victoriawhose 63 years and seven months on the throne was a record until Queen Elizabeth II surpassed the milestone in 2016 and ended up reigning for 70 years.
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Matthew Bocchi was only in fourth grade when his father died in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. It was only the first in a painful series of events in the New Jersey boy’s life.
“In many ways, I love seeing that I became a new person on September 12,” he told Fox News. “The person I was the day before would never be here again.”
Bocchi’s grief ultimately left him vulnerable to sexual abuse from a family member who had spoken to him during his father’s death. He would later turn to drugs to cope with his emotional trauma, which led to an arrest.
But Bocchi ultimately leaned on his father’s spirit to get sober. Now he spends his time sharing his experiences, spreading his messages of resilience, inspiration and hope.
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Matthew Bocchi’s father, John Bocchi, died in the September 11 terrorist attacks. (Courtesy of Matthew Bocchi)
Bocchi’s father, John Bocchi, drove daily from New York to his office on the 105th floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center.
Minutes after a Boeing 676 crashed into the tower at 8.45am on September 11, the elder Bocchi called his wife.
“You are the love of my life, and I will love you forever,” Bocchi’s father told his wife before the line was cut, the younger Bocchi relayed to Fox News. He was among some 3,000 victims of the terrorist attacks 21 years ago on Sunday.
Bocchi still remembers the details of that, although he said the following days were hazy. He remembers cars speeding by on his way home “almost like a crime scene”.
He walked into the living room and saw images of the twin towers replaying.
“I remember seeing an image of someone falling off the building,” Bocchi told Fox News. “And that was something that would never leave my mind.”
Bocchi’s father worked on the 105th floor of the North Tower. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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As Bocchi grew older, he wanted to know more about his father’s death, but his mother wouldn’t talk about it. Neither did his father’s brothers.
But an uncle, related by marriage, “stepped in and he, with open arms, wanted to talk about it,” Bocchi said.
The teenager asked his uncle if he thought his father was among those who jumped from the tower.
“He was like, ‘Yeah, he did. He did that,’” Bocchi told Fox News. He started digging through photos and videos of people falling to the ground every day after school.
“I felt like I could experience his last moments with him looking at these images,” Bocchi said.
Eventually he saw a graphic image of the remains of the 9/11 victims.
After Matthew Bocchi learned that his father had jumped from the North Tower during the 9/11 terrorist attacks, he became obsessed with images of people jumping from the building. Young Bocchi later learned that his father had not jumped off the building. (Courtesy of Matthew Bocchi)
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“I was immediately physically ill,” Bocchi said.
He called his uncle, who came to his house 30 minutes later. Bocchi was crying and pointing at his computer screen when his uncle entered.
“Within five minutes, he just took advantage of me,” Bocchi told Fox News.
The sexual abuse continued for about a year, according to Bocchi. He said he believed his uncle’s claims that it was “normal” and that he would be the only one to face repercussions if he said anything.
“I felt so embarrassed,” he said. “I knew I couldn’t go to anyone, or at least I felt I couldn’t go to anyone.”
Bocchi said he took it with him for the rest of his life.
Matthew Bocchi, left, at the beach with his father and brother Michael, right. (Courtesy of Matthew Bocchi)
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“What I know now, obviously, is that he was using all of this trauma and this hurt that I had, this pain, for his own pleasure,” Bocchi told Fox News. “He took advantage of my vulnerability and abused me.”
He later learned that his father had in fact not jumped from the North Tower and would have died in a stairwell.
When Bocchi came to college, he felt alienated.
“People looked at me as the kid who lost his father on 9/11 and I felt like that was a label that I will always carry with me,” Bocchi told Fox News.
He started experimenting with hard drugs, like cocaine, opiates and benzos.
“I remember the feeling I had,” Bocchi said. “All this pain I carry with me, all this torment, is gone.”
“It was something I was going to chase,” he continued.
Bocchi abused drugs throughout college. He started selling opiates and marijuana, even after getting a job in finance after graduating.
“And then I got arrested,” Bocchi told Fox News. “I thought maybe this would be the moment for me where I would say, ‘Okay, that’s enough.’ This was not the case.”
Matthew Bocchi wears a jacket to match his father’s, pictured alongside his brothers Nick, left, and Michael, centre. (Courtesy of Matthew Bocchi)
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After that, Bocchi felt “stuck”.
“I didn’t know which way to go,” he said.
One day Bocchi came out and looked up. He was struck by its blue appearance.
“It took me back to the morning of 9/11 when my father passed away,” he told Fox News.
Bocchi asked his father to help him and send a sign. A fly landed on the railing he was leaning on and started acting weird. That was all it took. Bocchi immediately entered rehab. He spent 30 days in rehab and then joined sober life.
“I knew I had a lot to work on,” Bocchi said. “I was working with my godfather at the time, and I told him about what happened to me with my uncle.”
He decided to file a complaint with the police. His uncle was charged with second-degree sexual assault and sentenced to seven years in prison, Bocchi said.
Matthew leaned on his father’s spirit to get sober as he dealt with drug addiction. (Courtesy of Matthew Bocchi)
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After getting sober in 2016, Bocchi found his job in finance “miserable”. He started sharing his story in high schools, trying to inspire young people to talk about their struggles. He found it rewarding – his only payment for speaking engagements at the time.
In 2019, he quit his job. The following year, he published “Sway”, a book detailing his journey. Today, 30-year-old Bocchi speaks full-time at high schools, colleges and other organizations.
“In this world, few people are so openly honest about everything they’ve been through,” he told Fox News. “I feel like I’m sharing those parts of my story that are vulnerable…I think it allows people to be open about their own struggles.”
Ethan Barton is a producer/reporter for Digital Originals. You can reach him at [email protected] and follow him on Twitter at @ethanrbarton.
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