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Roland Emerson is a BART rider from West Oakland who has worked as a nonprofit facilities manager for almost two decades. His main goal as a director would be to stop expansions and focus funding on fixing problems in the core system. He advocates for a second transbay tube between San Francisco and Oakland, and says BART unions should not be able to strike.
He believes that better surveillance systems should take priority over more BART police, and that BART officers should not be armed with guns. “Never. Billy clubs and Tasers possibly but that is all,” he told San Leandro Talk.
“I am disappointed with BART’s leadership; the apparent lack of forward thinking and it’s willful disregard for practical solutions,” Emerson told San Leandro Talk. “There are so many problems that, with a little creative thinking, could be easily solved. For instance: the bike situation. Allowing bikes on BART at peak hours was not the best idea but could easily work if they did what Caltrain does and remove all the seats from the last car so that all bike riders traveled there with plenty of room freeing up space in the other cars for standing patrons, simple, common sense fixes that seem to be beyond BART’s leaders. Hopefully a more hands on board could initiate some of these.”
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Zakhary Mallett, the incumbent, was elected a BART director in 2012. He also works as an independent transportation and land-use consultant. Mallett earned his bachelor’s degree in urban studies from Stanford University and went on to earn a master of city planning with an emphasis in transportation from University of California, Berkeley. He has advocated for BART expansion, more equitable fares and improving infrastructure.
“BART’s primary purpose in the region is to serve as a regional transit option for longer-haul travelers; not short-range trips,” Mallet said on his website. “If BART is going to achieve overcoming its capacity challenges, a first step would seem to be better-defining the fare structure and service standards so that they reflect and cater towards the population that BART is designed to serve: longer-haul travelers.”
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Will Roscoe is a civil engineer focusing in the areas of operations and analytics in the water and energy industries. He works as the operations planning manager for SolarCity.
Roscoe’s primary goal: “build the world’s best transportation system within 2 decades.”
“Research over the past last 5 years has handed the transit industry a paradigm shift. If public transit agencies like BART don’t seize these opportunities, all the wealth created from the new technologies will be captured by private stakeholders,” he said on his website. “I believe that efficient transportation, like parks, power, clean water, and internet is our right and should be managed to benefit the public. BART’s board of directors must look to the future, utilize new technologies, and move forward with planning now and immediate action.”
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Lateefah Simon was born and raised in San Francisco’s Western Addition. She studied public policy at Mills College and got her masters in social entrepreneurship at Stanford. At age 19, she was appointed executive director of the Center for Young Women’s Development. Seven years later, she became the youngest woman to receive a MacArthur “Genius Grant.” She has worked for the Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights and now is president of the Akonadi Foundation, which works to support social justice and eliminate racism. In March she was appointed by Gov. Jerry Brown to the California State University Board of Trustees.
An Oakland resident and daily BART rider, Simon’s plan to improve the agency is based on accountability, accessibility and affordability.
“Every day I see and hear the frustrations of working people who are stuck with a system that doesn’t work for them,” she said in an op-ed endorsing Regional Measure RR, the $3.5 billion BART bond. “I witness firsthand how expensive and unreliable transit service affects people with disabilities, seniors, families, businesses, and commuters. That’s why I’m running for BART Board — because I believe the board needs more people who actually rely on the system making big decisions about its future.”
Our methodology
The Public Press chose to count endorsements from organizations that backed multiple candidates or ballot measures, and that made those endorsements available online. We did not count endorsements from individuals.
Some organizations endorsed a first and second choice for candidates in some races. Those preferences are not represented here.
If you think we missed an important organization, please tell us. We’d love to hear from you.
Tracked Endorsements by Organization
Published: Oct. 18, 2016
