Who's Watching the Watchdogs? Apparently, Nobody Checked the Numbers.

The financial oversight promised to Bay Area voters by Measure RTM's architects has already failed a basic test. A first major review used the wrong financial numbers, materially understated BART's

The financial oversight promised to Bay Area voters by Measure RTM's architects has already failed a basic test. A first major review used the wrong financial numbers, materially understated BART's operating expense growth and credited the agency with hundreds of millions in questionable “cost savings.” The report was then approved by the very committee appointed to oversee the work. And this happened before a single dollar of the proposed new sales tax has been collected. How wrong were the num