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	<description>Getting around the Bay Area with Denis Cuff and the Queen of the Road</description>
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		<title>McPartland elected BART board president for the next year</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 03:35:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BART Director John McPartland of Castro Valley was elected the BART Board president Thursday. He will hold the rotating position for a year. The board president has no more votes than other directors, but he has extra influence because he determines the BART board meeting agendas, runs board meetings, and frequently acts as a spokesman for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BART to give out free train tickets at festival Thursday</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2011/04/20/bart-to-give-out-free-train-tickets-at-festival-thursday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 01:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BART is rewarding 5,000 people with free tickets &#8211; each good for $6 worth of  fares &#8211; at an environmental fair in San Francisco from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday to promote public transit. The BART Blue Sky festival will be held at Justin Herman Plaza near the Embarcadero station. Attendees also can enter a drawing for two free bicycles, and an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transit workers behaving badly? Did they do really do that?</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2009/11/06/transit-workers-behaving-badly-did-they-do-really-do-that/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:59:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Running a public transit system is dependent on the labor of many workers, but what happens when one of those workers goes rogue.  Read about a San Francisco Muni worker allegedly punching a teenage girl in San Francisco, and misdemeanor charges being filed against a BART train operator for allegedly making lewd advances to a female passenger he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who took biggest hit from 6-day Bay Bridge closure?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can&#8217;t put a price on the aggravation of being stuck in traffic. That comment from a Bay Area transportation official become the theme of my story today about the toll on the region from a six-day closure of the Bay Bridge for emergency repairs. And much as that statement is true, we at the newspaper [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How did the Bay Bridge closure affect you?</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2009/11/02/how-did-the-bay-bridge-closure-affect-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:08:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We invite our readers to post comments below about how the Bay Bridge closure affected them during the five and a half days the span was out of service.  Did the closure change your travel plans? Did the closure try your patience? Was it understandable Caltrans took so long to fix a Labor Day repair that failed Tuesday? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The BART fix: Can police department change after Grant shooting?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:04:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the saga of BART&#8217;s response to the police shooting of unarmed train rider Oscar Grant III, a few things seemed destined to happen. First, the transit board members said publicy they were sorry about the shooting. This was in early January during the board&#8217;s first meeting after passenger-shot videos showed a transit officer shooting Grant in the back as he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can a strike be averted? BART talks to resume at 1 p.m.</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2009/08/15/can-a-strike-be-averted-bart-talks-to-resume-at-1-pm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Negotiations between BART and its second biggest union will resume at 1 p.m today in an effort to avert a planned strike Monday morning, Jesse Hunt, president of the Amalgamated Transit Union announced this morning. This will be the first face to face negotiations since the union for station agents and train operators announced Thursday that they plan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High noon nearing on BART labor conflict</title>
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		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2009/08/13/high-noon-nearing-on-bart-labor-conflict/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The risk of a BART strike is on the verge of increasing significantly later today. The BART board appears poised to impose contract conditions on a union for train operators and station agents later today after the employee group&#8217;s leaders late Wednesday night rejected what BART management called its last and final offer. Leaders of the union have threatened [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BART contract nearing vote by unions</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2009/08/04/bart-contract-nearing-vote-by-unions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2009/08/04/bart-contract-nearing-vote-by-unions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A strike threat hanging over BART like a dark cloud for weeks has lifted mostly with a tentative contract settlement reached Friday. But the deal needs to clear an important hurdle: ratification by three different employee unions in separate votes. If that doesn&#8217;t happen, then riders may need to dust off those contingency plans for commuting. As Yoga Berra said, &#8220;It ain&#8217;t over til it&#8217;s over.&#8221;  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BART contracts extended, more time to reach deal</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2009/06/28/bart-contracts-extended-more-time-to-reach-deal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2009/06/28/bart-contracts-extended-more-time-to-reach-deal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:15:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BART riders can breath a little sigh of relief with the news late last night that BART agreed to a 9 day extension of its old labor contracts, which were due to expire midnight Tuesday. There was already good reason to believe that a BART strike is unlikely this year, given the miserable state of the [...]]]></description>
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