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10,200 more riders took BART than agency predicted The final numbers show that 10,200 more riders than BART predicted rode the agency's trains during the second annual "National Dump the Pump Day," Thursday, June 21. BART had originally forecasted that there would be 340,400 riders on June 21, 2007. There

BART General Manager Grace Crunican issued the following statement October 24, 2013: On October 24, 2013, the BART Board of Directors unanimously passed resolutions honoring deceased BART employee Christopher Sheppard and deceased BART contractor Laurence E. Daniels, P.E. The National Transportation Safety

Four men are behind bars tonight after BART Police arrested them for cornering riders, confronting them and then ripping off items such as iPods, computers, credit cards and cash. The arrests come on the heels of news that riding BART is even safer than it was a year ago. Overall violent crime on BART, which

Today the BART Police Department (PD) unveiled its new Zone Geographical Policing Structure, which breaks the current zones down into smaller, easier to manage areas that are more compatible with its existing span of control. “A Zone Lieutenant will now be in command of one of the five patrol zones, where a

November 21 marks one year of active service for the automated BART to OAK line between Oakland International Airport and Coliseum Station. Coincidentally, it is also expected to reach the one millionth passenger trip milestone at some point this weekend – a sign of its tremendous success and growing

BART will increase police patrols on trains and in stations, increase the frequency of deep cleaning of train cars and add more “scrub crew” cleaning at stations this spring. Increased Police Presence BART Police is more than doubling the presence of sworn officers in trains beginning March 20 to address

Mayors Jerry Brown and Gavin Newsom play key role in securing funding Today, August 23, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's office announced the Governor is granting BART $2.9 million to make riders more secure against terrorist attacks. "Since 9/11 the federal government has been giving mass transit just a

In April 2006, BART riders enjoyed a nearly 96% passenger on-time record ? the highest in 16 months. This news comes after a string of incidents in March toppled BART's normally stellar passenger on-time performance. Those incidents included a fire on March 9, a bomb threat on March 22 and three computer

The BART Board of Directors took the first step October 24, 2019 toward possibly giving BART riders priority access for the lines leading to passenger screening check points at San Francisco International Airport (SFO). The directors voted to approve trip verification technology (TVT). With TVT, SFO-hired