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BART fares increase 6.1% starting July 1 as District deals with $250 million four-year deficit
BART fares will increase beginning July 1, 2009, by 6.1%, or an average fare increase of 20 cents. The fare increase was originally scheduled to take effect January 1, 2010, but the BART Board of Directors moved up the start date of the increase as part of its efforts to close a $250 million four-year deficit
Night Board meeting Thursday covers BART to OAK, Civic Center bike station, labor issues
The BART Board of Directors will meet Thursday, Sept. 25, at 5 pm to consider a number of important issues, including a new bike station at Civic Center that will expand secure bike parking, and ratifying the labor contract with the BART Police officers and managers unions. The Board also will receive an
The details on doors: How forcing your way into a BART car can harm service for thousands
BART maintenance workers already are doing everything they can to keep as many cars as possible in service. But they’re facing a growing challenge because of an avoidable problem. BART’s service yards are spending precious workhours repairing train doors that were forced open by riders or otherwise damaged
BART could have been an elevated monorail and other fascinating facts from the Parsons-Brinckerhoff report
05.04.22 A rendering of a “basic supported system” train from the Parsons-Brinckerhoff report of 1956. In celebration of BART’s 50th anniversary this year, we’re looking back at the transit system’s five decades of service and innovation in a new series of stories. BART celebrates 50 years on Sept. 11, 2022
BART Board to get update on planned improvements for all transit in the Bay Area
The BART Board of Directors will get an update at their board meeting tomorrow, January 25, 2024, on the ongoing efforts of Bay Area transit systems to work together as one coordinated network to grow ridership and make transit easier to use.
Transit agencies in the Bay Area are committed to advancing exciting improvements in fares, customer information, coordinated schedules, and accessibility as outlined in the Transit Transformation Action Plan released in 2021. The plan is in coordination with the Metropolitan Transportation Commission which is providing funding to launch multiple pilot projects, studies, and planning efforts.
As transit agencies work towards a potential regional transportation ballot measure in 2026, the implementation of this plan will help build confidence in transit.
The plan includes:
- Testing new fare policies such as unlimited region-wide transit passes and free/reduced cost transfers between systems through Clipper.
- Exploring changes to regional fare structures to keep things simple and affordable and identifying what new funding would be needed to implement changes.
- An emerging new unified look for all transit agencies with consistent signage and new maps that show riders how to get around.
- Coordinated schedules that change at the same time and that improve connections.
- Increasing bus priority lanes to speed up bus trips and improve reliability.
- Improved regional paratransit trips.
- Ongoing advocacy for new funding to pay for all the changes and ensure agencies can maintain and enhance service, improvements to safety, and increased accessibility.
These improvements are critical for transit agencies in the Bay Area to showcase what a well-funded transit network looks and feels like. “Bay Area transit is not business as usual,” said Alicia Trost, Chief Communications Officer at BART. “We are listening to our riders and working on a new vision and better future that features cleaner, safer, easier to use transit.”
BART looks to bolster number of police on trains by approving significant pay increase to help recruit officers
The BART Board of Directors has unanimously approved a new agreement that will increase police officer salaries to put the BART Police Department's (BPD) pay on par with other Bay Area law enforcement agencies. Before the Board’s action, BPD officer salaries were 19% below the market average for 10 local
BART PD arrests suspect wanted for fatal stabbing above 24th Street Mission Station
BART police have arrested 42-year-old Richard Henry Visor in connection with a fatal stabbing that happened last month at the street level on the 24th Street Plaza above the 24th Street/Mission Station in San Francisco. BART Police and the San Francisco Police Department have been working collaboratively
One Book, One BART: Pulitzer winner Hua Hsu on growing up riding local transit
In May, BART launched its first ever book club for riders, One Book, One BART. The inaugural book selection for the book club, which runs through August, is "Stay True," a memoir set in 1990s Berkeley by writer Hua Hsu. Hsu, a staff writer at the New Yorker and a professor of literature at Bard College, grew
All trains at Millbrae will use the same platform for improved BART to Caltrain transfers starting March 22
Starting Monday, March 22nd, BART trains will arrive and depart at Millbrae Station from Platform 3, the one closest to Caltrain at the station. This significant improvement will allow riders at Millbrae to cross the same platform to transfer instead of the previous walk up and through the concourse. BART and
In a historic first, BART runs Exploratorium train and station advertisements in Chochenyo, the language of the East Bay Ohlone
The Exploratorium advertisement for ¡Plantásticas!, written in Chochenyo, featuring Ohlone leaders Vincent Medina (left) and Lous Trevino (right). For the first time in its fifty-year history, BART is running advertisements on trains and in stations written in the oldest language of the inner East Bay