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New study says SF, Oakland to weather gas prices because of BART

BART Ridership Up By 3 Million Passengers As crude oil prices cross the $70 a barrel threshold, a new study cites BART as a major reason why San Francisco and Oakland are ranked as two of the cities best-prepared to weather an oil crisis. An April 2006 study of the 50 largest U.S. cities by SustainLane ranked

BART website provides real time Muni Metro arrivals for shared stations

The BART website now provides real time SF Muni Metro arrivals for shared BART/Muni Metro stations in San Francisco, including Embarcadero, Montgomery, Powell, Civic Center, Glen Park and Balboa Park. The arrivals are convenietly listed next to BART ETAs on the main BART website and the mobile BART website (

BART Rider Action Alert: State support for public transit at stake

Dear Rider: We at BART want to make you aware that Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the State Legislature are considering permanently eliminating the very program that funds public transit. That program is called the State Transportation Assistance (STA) fund. They may slash these funds in order to once

Seen & heard on BART this week: Fog town, iPad station, singing rooster

BART riders are a busy bunch -- taking trains to work, to play, to meet friends and travel around the Bay Area. While they're on BART they're gaming, crocheting, listening to music, reading and people-watching. Here's a fresh batch of things people saw and talked about on BART this week. We'll update this

Seen & heard on BART this week: carols, fake Chanel, E-40, meditation

BART riders are a busy bunch -- taking trains to work, to play, to meet friends and travel around the Bay Area. While they're on BART they're gaming, crocheting, listening to music, reading and people-watching. Here's a fresh batch of things people saw and talked about on BART this week. We'll update this

BART increases service for Giants parade; trains will run until 2AM

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BART is gearing up to carry hundreds of thousands of baseball fans to downtown San Francisco on Friday, October 31 to celebrate the Giants World Series seventh game win. BART will run its rush hour service all day--using every available train possible. To ensure that everyone can get home safely, trains will

BART ridership up over Labor Day weekend, overnight ridership down

A total of 539,400 passengers took BART over the Labor Day weekend. That's 61,800 or 13% more passengers than BART anticipated would've taken BART had Caltrans not shutdown the eastbound lanes of the Bay Bridge for the entire weekend to perform earthquake retrofit work. The number of people who took BART