[caption id="attachment_300305" align="alignright" width="258"] William Walker[/caption]

Accessibility, lower fares, affordable housing, safety, broken escalators, over-surveillance… it’s all on the table in the last days of a hot election race. [1]

William Walker [2] is a candidate for the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) board to represent San Francisco’s eighth district. We ask his opinion [3] on BART’s current service to people with disabilities, as well as his plans to serve our community should he be elected.

Eddie Ytuarte and Sheela Gunn-Cushman host.

Walker spent four years as a student of Urban Studies and Demography at UC Berkeley.  He served as student body president at City College of San Francisco where he fought for a reduced fare program for all City College students.  He also has extensive hands-on experience in public transit, having worked for SFMTA [4], 511 Bay Area, SamTrans [5] and Los Angeles Metro/MTA [6].

Full disclosure: William Walker worked at KPFA as a volunteer, a staff member and a board of directors member between 2001-2006. During that time, he occasionally filled-in as a board operator for “Pushing Limits”.

[1] https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/10/17/safety-the-top-priority-in-bart-board-race/

[2] https://www.facebook.com/inwillwetrust/

[3] http://walker4bart.org

[4] https://www.sfmta.com/

[5] http://www.samtrans.com/

[6] https://www.metro.net/