Originally Posted by
tom911
I did hear back from my BART contact tonight. Train operators receive 11-12 weeks of classroom training, followed by two weeks of on the job training (I gather this means being shadowed by a veteran train operator once you're behind the controls). So, looks like about 3 months until you're out there operating a train on your own.
He also told me that some of the recently hired train controllers have air traffic control experience.
For that three months of training, they get about $100,000 in total wages and benefits. BART could shave that by 1/3 and still get tens of thousands of qualified applicants for these jobs.