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BART Assistant General Manager of External Affairs Rodd Lee and interim BART Police Chief Kevin Franklin gave their remarks on May 16, 2023 at the Senate Select Committee on Bay Area Public Transit at Sacramento. Please watch the video above for full remarks made by Lee and Franklin. Lee and Franklin spoke of

By MELISSA JORDAN BART Senior Web Producer In the spring of 1970 when Larry Williams first came to work for BART, he was -- in his own words -- "just a kid." Fresh out of Berkeley High School, he was hunting for a job. The new transit district had a position in the mail room, but Williams saw more. He saw

If you’re taking BART to the Castro Valley Station off Redwood Road, you may notice a peculiar sight in the parking lot. Two tiny homes, created by the Bay Area-based company Spacial, have landed at the spacious lot, which is currently underutilized by passengers as BART continues to welcome riders back to

BART will provide extra event trains to support the Second Sky Music Festival taking place at the Oakland Arena on Saturday, September 18th and Sunday, September 19. On Sunday, BART closes early but will provide very limited late-night service which will require attendees to plan ahead. BART’s Coliseum

BART engineer Derry Moten leads the UC Merced Capstone Design program for BART On a sunny weekday in February, a group of UC Merced students trekked to the Bay Area to study pigeons. Huddled around the concourses at Richmond and El Cerrito del Norte stations, the students craned their necks at the ceilings to

Blind and low vision riders congregate in front of an opened door in a out of service Fleet of the Future train. BART hosted a safety orientation for the blind and low-vision community on Tuesday to demonstrate how they can navigate the system on their own and welcome back riders with disabilities. 19th St

Beginning Monday, June 22, BART is extending its 3 extra commute trains on the Yellow Line from Pleasant Hill to/from Daly City to Pittsburg/Bay Point to/from Daly City, as recent ridership data showed the need to extend the train service. On June 8, BART added 3 trains on the Yellow Line -- its current

The BART Board of Directors is currently in the process of recruiting a District 2 appointee for the BART Police Citizen Review Board (BPCRB). The BPCRB is comprised of 11 members and resident (s) of the following counties: Alameda, Contra Costa, San Mateo or San Francisco. The District 2 position is

BART General Manager Bob Powers will be meeting with students at San Francisco State University on Thursday, November 4 from 1:30-3pm on campus about their transit needs and to hear their ideas to encourage more young people to ride BART. The visit to the San Francisco State campus will allow Powers the

This service change has been updated as of June 22, 2020: BART extends Yellow Line extra commute trains to Pittsburg/Bay Point as ridership continues to tick upward. Read the update: https://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2020/news20200622 BART will be running a new schedule with minor adjustments starting next