Lynette Sweet
Lynette Sweet | |
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Bay Area Rapid Transit District Board Director, District 7 | |
Assumed office February 20, 2003 | |
Preceded by | Willie B. Kennedy |
Succeeded by | Zakhary Mallett |
Personal details | |
Residence | San Francisco, California, U.S. |
Lynette Sweet was an elected member of the Bay Area Rapid Transit District, a special purpose district in the San Francisco Bay Area that operates the Bay Area Rapid Transit rail system.[1]
Career[edit]
Although she is generally wary of tasers due to planned training she supports the 2011 decision to give all BART police officers tasers.[2] She is also a supporter of the MacArthur Transit Village at the station of the same name.[3] In 2005 she became vice president of BART; serving with president Carole Ward Allen making BART the first transit agency to be run by two black women in American history.[4] Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom endorsed her candidacy in 2010 for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.[5]
References[edit]
- ↑ Friends of El Cerrito del Norte. Home. 08-06-2011.
- ↑ BART may equip every officer with a Taser Archived 2012-03-11 at the Wayback Machine. Will Reisman. San Francisco Examiner. 24-05-2011.
- ↑ MacArthur Transit Village project breaks ground after 17 years. Sean Maher. Oakland Tribune. 23-05-2011.
- ↑ Lynette Sweet BART director. BART.gov. 2011. 08-06-2011.
- ↑ Mayor Newsom Endorses BART Director Lynette Sweet for D10 Supervisor Archived 2011-08-30 at the Wayback Machine. SweetForSupervisor.com. 21-04-2010.
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