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BART offers special early service with limited stops for 2023 Bay to Breakers

BART will provide four trains with limited stops before regular BART service begins for the Bay to Breakers event on Sunday, May 21, 2023. The special service will get race participants to Embarcadero around 7am.

The special early morning event trains will pick up passengers for an Embarcadero arrival with limited service from the following peninsula stations; Millbrae, Daly City, and 16th Street Mission in San Francisco and from the East Bay; West Oakland, MacArthur, Pleasant Hill, El Cerrito del Norte, Bay Fair, and Dublin stations. These stations will be the only stations opened early for the service.

These four trains will go out of service once they drop riders off at Embarcadero. Riders cannot board a train at Embarcadero. BART does not have sufficient staff available to open the entire system for this early morning service.

Special Service Details

  • One train will leave Millbrae at 6:31am and will stop at Daly City at 6:44am, 16th Street Mission at 6:54am and then Embarcadero at 7:00am. No other stops will be made along the line.
  • A second train will leave Pleasant Hill at 6:25am and will stop at MacArthur at 6:45am, West Oakland at 6:53am and then Embarcadero at 7:00am. No other stops will be made along the line.
  • A third train will leave Dublin at 6:20am and will stop at Bay Fair at 6:37am, West Oakland at 6:56am, and then Embarcadero at 7:03am. No other stops will be made along the line.
  • A fourth train will leave El Cerrito del Norte at 6:37am and will stop at MacArthur at 6:51am, West Oakland at 6:59am and then Embarcadero at 7:06am. No other stops will be made along the line.

Regular systemwide BART service starts at around 8am.

Tips

  • BART parking is free on Sundays. People driving to BART to take the train should park at one of these stations being served: Pleasant Hill, El Cerrito del Norte, MacArthur, Bay Fair, West Oakland, Daly City, and Millbrae. 16th Street Mission does not have a BART parking lot.
  • BART is in the process of loading these event trains as special service to the Trip Planner. (Only bart.gov and BART’s app will show these added trains, third party apps will not show them).
  • Once on the platform, these four trains will be labelled as: “Limited Stop to Embarcadero.”
  • Load your Clipper card in advance with enough funds for the round trip.
  • If you don’t have a Clipper card, add one for free ($3 savings) to your phone’s wallet in advance and use Google Pay or Apple Pay.

Bay to Breakers 2023 map