BART Needs to Speed Up Installing Surveillance Cameras, Says Top Official

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A BART train leaves a station. Creative Commons image by Flickr user

By Ted Goldberg, KQED News Fix

BART needs to stop “tap dancing” around and quickly install surveillance cameras on all of its trains, the chairman of the Bay Area’s regional transit planning agency said after learning that the system was moving slowly in putting the devices in place.

“I don’t know what’s taking so long,” Dave Cortese, chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, said in an interview. “I think there’s a genuine concern that BART isn’t able to move quickly enough on some of these basic maintenance- and security-type issues.”

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