Learning Interviews

Here are a few people I'd like to talk to and ask questions to learn about transit. If you are one of these people please feel free to reply in the comments.

BART Directors
Rebecca Salzman - BART Board
Nick Josefowitz - BART Board
Zakary Mallett - Current BART Director of District 7

1. Do you find that it's easy to change things in the BART organization?
   1. Why or why not?
2. Do you think BART could become the worlds best transit system in 20 years?
3. What do you think needs to be done in the next 4 years to begin building this system?

BART Director Candidates - District 7
Lateefah Simon - Candidate for BART Director of District 7
Zakary Mallett - Current BART Director of District 7

1. What do you think needs to be done for BART to serve more people in 20 years?
2. How many more people do you think we can serve in 5 years?
   

Bike Advocates
Dave Cambell - Bike East Bay

1. Would you trust self driving cars to drive next to you if you saw them drive the same route safely 1000 times.
2. Why do you think public transit is currently less popular than driving a private car?

Tech Entreprenurs
Elon Musk - Founder of Tesla and Space X

1. If there was road between Oakland and San Francisco that only allowed self driving cars, would TESLA be interested to buy access to use it?
2. What protocols are important when designing a purely self driving system? 

BART Engineering

• Would you be excited to be trained how to build a modern self driving transit system?
• Why did you choose to work for BART

Unions


AC Transit

People from these organizations
* Lyft* Uber
* AC Transit
* MUNI
* Cal Trans
* Amtrack
* Chariot
* BART Engineering