The BART Board of Directors voted 6-3 Thursday night to allow riders to be able to take their bicycles on trains at peak hours, as long as they obey a rule that restricts the bikes from any train cars that are overcrowded.
The new rule goes into effect on July 1, and will be reevaluated by BART in November.
The three directors in dissent – Tom Radulovich, James Fang, and Robert Raburn – wanted to lift the ban outright and dispense with the reassessment in November.
So, when it came to allowing the bikes on board at peak times, the vote was essentially unanimous.
The majority of those who contacted BART prior to the meeting or spoke Thursday night favored dropping the ban. BART said that an overwhelming 95 percent of the roughly 400 people who sent letters or emails prior to the meeting urged that the ban be lifted.