Community Corner
BART Seat Lab in Union City on Wednesday
The public gets its chance to give recommendations on the next generation of BART seats.
Take a seat. Tell us what you think.
The public gets another chance to do that when BART brings its mobile seat lab to Union City on Wednesday afternoon.
The trailer will be parked at the Union City BART station from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.
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The lab contains more than a dozen sample seats that BART officials are considering for their new fleet of train cars.
The public can weigh in on how wide they think the new seats should be, how high they should be and what material they should be made of.
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BART is taking the lab on a tour of all nine BART districts. The field trips are expected to be completed by the end of June.
The transit agency plans to order up to 1,000 new cars. The first ones are expected to hit the tracks in 2018. The project is expected to cost $3.4 billion.
BART now has 660 cars, but officials say they need more because the transit district's ridership is expected to rise from an average of 350,000 per weekday to 500,000 per weekday over the next 12 years.
BART officials say the agency's transit cars are also aging and need to be replaced. The seats are one of a number of items in the design stage.
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