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San mateo county da s office. with the investigative unit, i m hilda gutierrez. candice: coming up, bart spent millions of dollars to buy new lights, but never installed them. we investigate next. ....
Easy to install and lower projected maintenance costs. after the inspector general s office got involved, bart fired the lighting contractor and settled with them for $2.4 million, and vowed to install all 2,182 fixtures itself. this video we took in the subway shows that another four years later, those old, dim, fluorescent fixtures still line the tunnel, and those new lights bart promised to install? most are in storage with time running out on their warranties. claudette: that s wasteful, yeah, you want to make sure that you re getting the best use out of your purchases. jaxon: bart board member debora allen, a frequent critic of bart management, has another word for it. debora: sometimes i do look at some of these things and say, gosh, you know, that s pretty that could be pretty absurd. i can see how the public would say that. jaxon: we reached out to bart, they wouldn t answer any specific questions about what s going on with the lighting, ....
Saying only that they re reviewing the inspector general s findings, and the agency acknowledges the procurement process did not meet our high standards, and we will work to do better in the future. during a recent audit committee meeting, bart deputy general manager, michael jones, suggested the audit process itself is to blame for all the delays, but quickly added michael jones: there s multiple reasons why that project was not completed at, you know, at that time and at this point in time. debora: okay, well, i d love to know all the other reasons. jaxon: bart officials now say they ve installed roughly 30% of the lights they bought for san francisco, mostly in the berkeley hills tunnel. but when allen asked whether any of the uninstalled lights are still under warranty. debora: is it gone? i mean, we re past the warranty? female: i really don t know. jaxon: it s not clear how long it will take for bart to finish installing the replacement lights in san francisco. ....
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 wo ....