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­ Fifty years ago, BART first opened for service, marking a new era in transit for the Bay Area. That same year, Don McLean’s “American Pie” jingled on the radio, the Watergate scandal unfolded across international headlines, and NASA launched its first Space Shuttle Program. Today, fifty years later, the

The BART Board of Directors will meet in Oakland at 5pm on Thursday August 28, 2014 to get updates and take action on a variety of topics of interest to riders and the Bay Area. On the fourth Thursday of each month, the Board meets during the evening (except for November and December) as part of a pilot

The BART Board of Directors at its meeting today approved a transit-oriented development project at the West Oakland Station that includes 762 housing units of which more than 30% have been designated as affordable. The approval by the BART Board comes after the City of Oakland approved the specific plan and

Timetable BART customers will be able to get to the world famous Bay to Breakers race in San Francisco on Sunday, May 21, 2017, because we’ll open early and run additional long trains. All BART stations will open early with service starting at approximately 6am Sunday so racers can get to the race well before

Timetable BART customers will be able to get to the world famous Bay to Breakers race in San Francisco on Sunday, May 20, 2018, because we’ll open early and run additional long trains. All BART stations will open early with service starting at approximately 6am Sunday so racers can get to the race well before

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

BART customers will soon have rail service to East Contra Costa County thanks to the eBART extension project, which officially broke ground in a ceremony on Friday, October 29, 2010. eBART, shorthand for east Contra Costa BART extension, is a 10-mile extension from Pittsburg/Bay Point Station to the City of

Carlton Davis is an outgoing, talkative guy – traits which belie the fact that his job is largely invisible to riders – unless something goes wrong. “My job is to make trains move. That’s what keeps us in business and that’s what keeps people happy,” Carlton says. Carlton is a Train Control Electronic

Excitement is building amid a development boom in the Warm Springs South Fremont Innovation District and much of it is because of the arrival of BART. Today much of the area immediately around the new Warm Springs BART Station is open fields but that is going to change. “BART and Warm Springs Station are the