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Bart To Offer Free Rides Home For Those Vaccinated At Coliseum Covid Vaccine Site Bay City News Service FacebookTwitterEmail Bay City News Foundation BART will offer free ride vouchers for Bay Area residents who receive a coronavirus vaccine at the upcoming Oakland Coliseum mass vaccination site, the transit agency said Thursday. The vaccination site is expected to open Tuesday and will eventually have the capacity to administer up to 6,000 vaccine doses per day, state officials said earlier th...

BART to hire social workers instead of filling police officer vacancies to deal with social problems FacebookTwitterEmail BART plans to use nearly $2 million budgeted to fill six vacant police officer positions to hire social work-trained civilians to respond to homelessness, mental illness and drug addiction that plague the train system. The plan introduced Friday adds a supervisor and 20 crisis intervention specialists to connect people in need with services — twice as many as were approved...