This is a weird BART district: it includes parts of all three BART counties (SF, Alameda, and Contra Costa). Marshall Walker, a
retired urban planner with the Richmond Redevelopment Agency, is challenging Lynette Sweet, the incumbent from San Francisco.
It is hard to find out much else about this race. Neither candidate has a website, neither has any information on the League of Women Voters'
smartvoter website, and I can only find one news article. I can't even find candidate statements.
But all you have to do is read each candidates' top priority in that one
San Jose Mercury News news article:
- Sweet says her "top priority is to get more offices, stores, businesses and housing built around train stations so more people can take BART instead of driving."
- Walker says he "wants to expand BART around the Bay and all the way to Sacramento."
Slam dunk for Sweet. Building homes and shops and places to work around BART will get a lot more riders, and provide a lot more other benefits, than Walker's fantasy. Sorry, but ringing the bay with BART and sending it up to Sacramento is a pipe dream that would cost billions (maybe tens of billions) we don't have. It makes a lot more sense to use what we have. Walker's response makes it clear he doesn't understand BART's finances.
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thank you for a short and sensible synopsis of this race. More helpful than knowing that Lynette Sweet would like to find a way that we can legally drink coffee on BART - though I like that about her also!
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