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Kids ride free to OAK Airport for the holidays
BART is offering a holiday promotion for families traveling to and from the Oakland International Airport. BART’s “Kids ride free to OAK Airport for the holidays” promotion is available starting December 19, 2014 through January 4, 2015. The promotion is for children 12 and under. Kids must use a “FlashPass”
Saturday emergency track work between Pleasant Hill to Pittsburg Bay/Point
BART will operate shuttle service using buses and trains between Pleasant Hill and Pittsburg/Bay Point Station all day and into the evening on Saturday February 22, 2014 due to emergency track work. BART strongly recommends that riders access the BART system at Pleasant Hill Station if they are travelling in
New seats now in all trains
Times change. Turns out BART seats do too. We’ve now changed every seat on every train car –all 669 of them- replacing the wool material with easy-to-clean vinyl. The last of the wool seats followed the wooly mammoth into extinction at exactly 10:50 a.m. on December 30, 2014. BART utility workers yanked out
Montgomery Street Station elevator temporarily out of service for improvement work
On Wednesday, September 9, 2009, BART will close the street elevator at Montgomery Street Station in order to demolish and replace the structure that houses the elevator entrance on the street level. Unfortunately, we must shut down the elevator for approximately three and one-half months (until December 2009
Wheels increases bus service to Dublin/Pleasanton Station
Wheels launched a series of route changes to improve access to BART and other key destinations in the Tri-Valley. Highest priority in the package of service changes is improved access to the Dublin/Pleasanton BART Station. BART riders can now connect directly to the station with ten new and modified routes
Get informed about Measure RR
BART’s $3.5 billion general obligation bond—Measure RR on the November ballot— would help rebuild and upgrade the backbone of the Bay Area transportation system. BART originally carried 100,000 people per week, but now serves roughly 440,000 riders per weekday, and ridership is expected to increase 75% by
Planning for a second Transbay Tube
BART is taking early steps to create a second Transbay Tube, although it’s too early to say if it will actually be a tube. For right now, BART and Capitol Corridor partners are calling it the second Transbay Rail Crossing. At tomorrow’s Board meeting, BART Directors will see that a companion to the existing
BPD seeks identity of hit-and-run suspect
The BART Police Department is asking for the public’s help to find a suspected hit-and-run driver who struck and seriously injured a BART rider in March at the Dublin/Pleasanton Station. The victim was walking from the station to his parked car when he was struck by the suspect vehicle that was exiting the
Construction Permits
Community seat labs finish up; next step will be public outreach on renderings
Past is prologue? Unveiling of first BART car, 1965. The public will get a look at renderings for the next generation of BART trains as the Fleet of the Future project proceeds. Photo: Corbis By MELISSA JORDAN BART Senior Web Producer The seat labs are over and the results are in: Some 2,200 Bay Area