BART to Increase Surveillance, Add Emergency Call Boxes
BART’s Board of Directors has approved a plan to expand the transit agency’s network of digital cameras and install emergency call boxes on station platforms.
The $20 million plan includes expanding BART’s digital camera network in stations, parking lots, and garages. BART has more than 4,000 surveillance cameras, which are a mixutre of digital and analog. The plan is to convert all analog cameras HD digital cameras at a cost of approximately $15 million and take roughly four and a half years to fully complete.