The Obama administration on Friday took away $70 million in federal stimulus funds from BART’s planned automated guideway to the airport for civil rights violations. The move by the Federal Transit Administration could mean that BART’s years-old plan for the $500 million airport connector is now dead in the water. FTA Administrator Peter Rogoff also threatened to take the entire $70 million away from the Bay Area unless the Metropolitan Transportation Commission redirects the funds immediately to other qualifying transit projects. That means that cash-strapped AC Transit stands to receive nearly $7 million in new funding.
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