Over the past weeks and months, like many of you, I have been angry and grieving over the violence against the Asian Pacific Islander (API) community — my community. I have talked with BART General Manager Bob Powers and BART Police Chief Ed Alvarez to discuss BART’s role in rejecting all racially-motivated violence, including violenceContinue reading “BART Director Janice Li’s statement on BART’s commitments to the API community”
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2020 In Review
Listen, 2020 was trash. But here are two things that give me hope: 1) The Buffalo Bills are in the playoffs and 2) BART is running and continuing to provide some 40,000 trips a day to essential workers. And we have no plans of changing that anytime soon. I said I was going to doContinue reading “2020 In Review”
Going 100%: Looking back on Year 1 as an elected official
Highlights: 100% attendance rate at BART board meetings Hiring a new general manager (BART) Hiring a new inspector general (BART) Creating BART’s first-ever low-income fare program (SF Examiner) Holding BART accountable to improving weekend service (SF Gate) Successfully defeating an attempt to ban busking and panhandling (SF Examiner, SF Chronicle) Expanding elevator attendants to allContinue reading “Going 100%: Looking back on Year 1 as an elected official”
