jaxon: then bart project manager, javed khan, pitched the plan to install more than 2,100 new lights, twice as many as bart had in the tunnel, saying it would bring ten times more light into the subway, and bring the lighting up to current code, so train operators could see better and passengers could evacuate more quickly during an emergency. javed: for emergency egress, you wanna be able to see the walkway and find the exit. jaxon: but today, six years later, bart has yet to install those lights, so what happened? bart inspector general, claudette biemeret, says the problem goes back to 2020, two years after the lighting contract was approved, when a whistleblower complained that bart was not getting its money's worth. claudette biemeret: it didn't meet the standards of the specifications that they set out. jaxon: the inspector general confirms the new lights were not as bright as bart wanted, and wouldn't last as long as the contract specified, still, bart liked them because they would be