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BART hosts "All Aboard with Transit CEOs" public event
In celebration of Transit Month, BART is hosting “All Aboard with Transit CEOs,” a multi-modal ride-a-long and social event giving the public a chance to ride with and meet regional transit leaders. The event is Friday, September 16, 2022, from 3pm-6:30pm. 11 General Manager/CEOs from various Bay Area transit
BART Board to consider changes to committee system at a later meeting
The public would get improved information about meetings of BART special committees under changes to the committee system that were discussed by the BART Board of Directors at its June 9, 2011, meeting. The Board agreed it needed more information on the proposed changes and said the issue would be put on the
BART schedule change aims to provide some crowding relief
On Monday, September 14 th, BART will make improvements to its train schedule and will add more cars to help provide some crowding relief while we wait for the Fleet of the Future to arrive. The number of cars scheduled to be in service during the rush hours will be at an all-time record high, with additional
BART back on time, San Leandro station re-opened
BART is back on time and the San Leandro station has been re-opened after a medical emergency this morning. Bus bridges were stopped after the station opened at 9:46 a.m. The incident occurred at 7:23 a.m. Trains began to move through San Leandro Station at 7:52 a.m., but did not stop at the station. A bus
Instagram photo group draws inspiration from BART ride
Photo by David Baer By MELISSA JORDAN BART Senior Web Producer Art, technology and transit intersected recently when the East Bay IGers, a group of fans of the iPhone application Instagram, conducted its monthly photo-walk as a photo-ride – on BART. Instagram is one in a new wave of applications that let
BART update on train derailment near Daly City Station
BART Spokesperson Alicia Trost released the following update: The derailment that occurred on Saturday May 20 th at 2:55 pm occurred at a rail joint about 400 feet from the Daly City platform. A rail joint is where two sections of rail are mechanically joined. It involved two cars in the middle of a nine-car
Bay Area playhouse puts on play set aboard BART
April Grant and David Boyll in rehearsals for “2 Across” at Pacifica Spindrift Players. Two strangers, both tackling the New York Times crossword, meet on an empty BART train at 4:30 in the morning at SFO. The woman, a psychologist, is organized and rational. The man, unemployed, is flighty and free-spirited
President Obama to award Medal of Honor to BART worker's son
Ty Carter (left) and his father, Mark President Barack Obama is scheduled to award the Medal of Honor today to Army Staff Sergeant Ty Michael Carter, an Antioch native whose father Mark is a BART electrician. Mark is in Washington, D.C. to see his son receive the nation’s highest military honor, but his
BART response to ad campaign paid for by Progressives for Immigration Reform
Advertisements paid for by Progressives for Immigration Reform went up this week in parts of the BART system. They’ve been placed primarily at San Francisco’s Civic Center Station and Oakland’s 19 th Street Stations with smaller numbers in other stations and in trains. This campaign complies with free speech
Pedestrian access temporarily re-routed at Pleasant Hill BART
From Monday, Sept. 8, through Thursday, Sept. 18, BART crews will finish the landscaping along E Street adjacent to the new garage at Pleasant Hill Station. Because of this project, on those days from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM, BART will divert the pedestrian access along E Street to the west side of E Street. BART