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By MELISSA JORDANBART Senior Web Producer With 47% of current employees at retirement age, BART needs an influx of engineers as surely as it needs a new fleet to replace its oldest-in-the-nation train cars. Fortunately for BART riders and the Bay Area as a whole, a program is underway to recruit and retain

BART is continuing asbestos removal work within the Powell Street BART Station. BART has been removing existing fireproofing material that was applied to the steel beams installed when the station was built nearly 40 years ago. The common fireproofing material from that time contains traces of asbestos. BART

Children who visit Fruitvale and Richmond stations from 5 pm - 7 pm on Friday, October 28, 2016, will get a special treat from BART’s Police Department. Officers will host BART’s first Halloween “Trunk or Treat” event, a safer alternative to the house-to-house Halloween trick-or-treating tradition. Candy

A $2 daily fee parking charge will begin in the Glen Park BART station parking lot on Monday, September 30, 2013. The daily fee of $2 will be in effect on weekdays for all parkers, including those with a disabled person parking placard. Parking is free on Saturdays, Sundays and BART Parking Holidays. The 5

Starting the first week of December, 2014 and continuing until the second week in January, 2015 we will remove and replace the security grilles at the entrance to the Downtown Berkeley station. The replacement work will be done on two entrances at a time (at opposite ends of the station). The entrances will

It's Tiny Tickets time again! BART and the East Bay Community Foundation are sponsoring a contest to make this the most exciting and productive Tiny Tickets effort yet. Once again, local nonprofits will be asking you to search high and low for all those low value BART tickets taking up space in your purses

On June 14, 2019 Bombardier Transportation announced it is opening a rail car assembly site in Pittsburg, California to assemble BART’s Fleet of the Future rail cars. This work, which is currently taking place in upstate New York, will be transferred to the Bay Area over the coming months. The new facility is

UPDATE: The single-tracking for maintenance work that had been anticipated for the weekend of June 11-12 on the Transbay Tube will not be necessary, so customers do not need to plan for the scheduled delays that had been expected earlier. The past two weekends, May 28-30 and June 4-5, single-tracking was done