A longtime critic of BART is blasting the transit agency, saying BART is doling out millions of dollars of bonuses to their employees while claiming they don’t have money for much-needed repairs.

This criticism comes on the heels of a report by the San Francisco Chronicle that revealed that more than 3,300 BART employees received bonuses last year of one thousand dollars each.  The paper reports that the agency is on track to pay out another one thousand dollar bonus to those employees this year because ridership has increased.  This bonus structure -- that ties compensation to ridership -- was agreed upon in part to settle the BART strike back in the fall of 2013.  BART's roughly 3,350 employees get $500 a year for every 1 percent increase in ridership, with a cap of $1,000.

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