BART tentatively picks company to design better fare gates

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Pending approval from its board in April, BART could deploy prototypes of new fare gates within seven months.

The agency plans to award a $47 million contract to transportation infrastructure and equipment company STraffic, which will replace BART’s worn fare gates with modern ones.

“There’s an appetite out there to go ahead and get this thing done,” said Bob Powers, BART’s general manager, adding the agency will soon be on a “path that’s going to get us to a systemwide replacement very, very quickly.” Dead campus, living archive: the SF Art Institute turns 152 Visit with the tastemaking art, a limited reopening of Pete's Rooftop Cafe and hear some live music from SF greats.

The replacement of fare gates throughout the system was originally estimated to cost $90 million, of which BART has already raised $72 million. BART will update that cost estimate, according to agency officials.

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