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  • Blogs

    June 10, 2013

    Ex-BART Manager Dorothy Dugger Is Still BART's Highest-Paid Employee

    Well, we found someone who is enjoying their BART ride. Ex-BART Manager-turned Golden Parachuter Dorothy Dugger has reportedly been cashing in her six-figure salary while "sitting at home." The Bay Area News Group investigated the former manager who resigned under pressure in 2011; at that time, sh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 7, 2013

    Bike Sharing Is Finally Coming to the Bay Area -- Kind Of.

    The Bike Share Stations are Coming So bike sharing is coming to the Bay Area, albeit in a modest way. If you don't hate cyclists like the Wall Street Journal, then you're probably glad that San Francisco is catching up to other world-class cities like Paris, New York, and Chattanooga, when it come ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 4, 2013

    BART Is Making You Pay More to Park

    The only two things you really need to maintain a steady job are a constant flow of coffee and reliable BART service. Unfortunately, the price just keeps going up for both. And for some East Bay folks, presumably bound for San Francisco, the trip across the bay is about to get a little bit pricier ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2013

    Even BART Agents Are Grossed Out, Terrified by BART (Video)

    You think your BART ride gets your gag reflexes going? Try working there for eight hours a day. All your worst nightmares that take place during your 30-45 minute commute on BART -- pooping passengers, angry drunks, dudes with knives, etc. -- are just another day at the office for BART agents. Up ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 31, 2013

    BART Cars Crash Under Tunnel, Expect Major Delays Today (Update)

    Update 11:30 a.m.: BART sent out a statement saying initial repairs are complete and it doesn't expect to have single-tracking during the afternoon commute. Trains are now moving on both tracks through the Transbay Tube, although trains in the Oakland-bound direction have been operating manually at ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2013

    Here's Why You Should Love Having Bikes on BART

    Heads up, BART riders: the cyclists are coming. Once again, BART has decided to temporarily drop its rush-hour bike blackouts and open its (often dysfunctional) doors to pedalers for the morning and evening crush. As seasoned BART riders already know, bikes of the ungainly, unfoldable variety are u ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 13, 2013

    Prepare to Pay More to Ride an Already Miserably Crowded BART Train

    It seems that last year's record ridership on BART didn't do much for us passengers: Not only are the trains still unbearably crowded, but those additional bodies haven't staved off fare increases. BART informed the public that it's now proposing a 5.2 percent fare increase for 2014, raising the a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 17, 2013

    Here's What BART Is Doing About Those Miserably Crowded Trains

    This probably isn't news to you, but your BART ride to and fro is becoming increasingly uncomfortable. That's because too many of you are relying on BART to get around; the agency is reporting record ridership that just keeps growing, particularly during peak commute hours (7 to 10 a.m. and 4 to 7 ... More >>

  • News

    October 3, 2012
  • Blogs

    August 3, 2012

    BART Riders Seem "Optimistic" About Bike Fridays

    BART took its first stab at journalism today with this man-on-the-street report detailing how riders felt about today's first Bike Friday, where cyclists were allowed to bring bikes on board BART trains during rush hour. We know as BART riders there's a lot of mixed feelings about whether bikes shou ... More >>

  • News

    June 13, 2012
  • Blogs

    June 13, 2012

    Muni: "Glad Bag Bus" Yanked Out of Service

    Today's cover story is about Muni's broken vehicles and the broken system that leads mechanics to "fix" them with plastic bags, duct tape, and rubber bands. The rolling symbol of Muni's long-term neglect of maintenance needs is Coach No. 5427, which has been motoring through city streets since at le ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2012

    BART Gets New Seats That Won't Soak Up Bodily Fluids as Easily

    Some of you might have already noticed that your BART ride seemed a little less like a trip to a porta-potti. That's because BART so proudly announced today that it has started to rip out the nasty, fecal-soaked wool seating on some train cars and replace it with easier-to-clean vinyl seats. The tra ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 27, 2011

    Suicide Halts BART Trains

    Suicide at BART ​The evening commute will be sad and slow. A woman apparently committed suicide this afternoon at the Ashby BART station in Berkeley, bringing trains to a screeching halt. Jim Allison, spokesman for BART, told SF Weekly that the northbound train was coming into the station at about ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2011

    BART GM Dorothy Dugger's $1M Payout: What Could That Buy?

    BART's lost $958,000 isn't in the lost and found​Nothing is more awkward than a breakup taking place on public transportation. Except, of course, a public transportation breakup. Earlier this year, BART's board voted, behind closed doors, to dump high-priced general manager Dorothy Dugger. It turn ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2011

    BART GM Dorothy Dugger Resigns with $1M Severance Package

    Dorothy Dugger​BART General Manager Dorothy Dugger announced her resignation from the transit agency today, and will leave with close to $1 million in pay as part of a severance agreement, BART officials said.Dugger's resignation comes after BART's board of directors voted to fire her in February. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2010

    Party Time on BART! Cheaper Fares, Cleaner Cars in July

    We're rich! But only in July​ BART is magic: just a year after threatening to throw the Bay Area into transit gridlock with a workers' strike, the transit agency is thinking up ways to share an unexpected shower of riches with the huddled masses crammed onto trains, also known as customers. That' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2010

    Feds Imperil Central Subway Funding, Demand Proof it's No Boondoggle

    Jim HerdWoosh -- gone?​Mayor Gavin Newsom and his public transit chief Nat Ford had the chance to hold an elaborate groundbreaking earlier this month for the $1.6 billion Central Subway light rail project. But a letter from a  top federal transportation bureaucrat suggests the festivities may ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2010

    BART Board Member Describes BART as 'Pyramid Scheme'

    ...Step three: Profit!​Like many transit advocates SF Weekly contacted this week, BART board member Tom Radulovich was relieved that the feds yanked $70 million from the controversial Oakland Airport Connector project, with the funds instead heading to Muni, BART and the Bay Area's other cash-stra ... More >>

  • News

    June 3, 2009
  • Blogs

    January 8, 2009

    BART Erases Graffiti About Oscar Grant's Killing

    By Lauren SmileyIt seems riders' camera phones are BART's second worst nightmare these days. Second, of course, to Johannes Mehserle, the BART cop involved in the shooting death of Oscar Grant III on New Year's Day. BART officials bemoaned in the Chron that the footage captured by passengers of the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2007
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    December 5, 2007
  • News

    September 5, 2007

    Big BART Brother

    The transit system's bosses know when you're sleeping, know if you're awake ... or singing Christmas carols

  • Blogs

    July 4, 2007
  • News

    March 8, 2006

    Missed Connection

    The multiuse Transbay Terminal project may have shrunk into a really expensive bus station

  • News

    February 1, 2006

    Clang, Clang, Clang Went the New Subway

    The billion-dollar Central Subway transportation plan may collapse under its own expanding weight

  • News

    August 13, 2003

    Gimme Shelters

    After mortgaging our future in an orgy of budget-related borrowing, the Legislature hatches new orgiastic plans: sleazy tax shelters

  • News

    August 6, 2003

    Death, Maiming, Money, and Muni

    The enormous costs -- human and financial -- of bad drivers and lax discipline at the San Francisco Municipal Railway

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 14, 2003
  • News

    December 4, 2002

    Unnatural Gas

    "Environmentalists" make bad transit worse by insisting Muni buy alt-fuel buses

  • Calendar

    September 4, 2002

    Training Daze

    In the absurdist musical The Transit Rider, public transportation becomes a metaphor for life

  • News

    April 10, 2002

    Runaway Train

    Why is Muni in such a hurry to win approval for a blindingly complex, potentially risky, $1 billion plan to privatize the city's rail fleet?

  • News

    December 5, 2001

    Visionary Thinking

    The "X Plan," a draft of Muni's hopes for the future, offers a glimpse of transit utopia

  • Music

    July 18, 2001

    Pop Philosophy

    BART considers late-night trains, DNA reopens, Napster smooches Metallica

  • News

    February 3, 1999
  • News

    January 20, 1999

    No More Free Ride?

    Sierra Club wants BART parkers to pay

  • News

    December 23, 1998
  • News

    December 16, 1998
  • Calendar

    December 16, 1998
  • News

    December 9, 1998

    Rewarding Failure

    Streetcars that are too wide, long, and heavy (136 @ $3.5 million per). Bus engines that don't fit and are scrapped (20 @ $116,000 a pop). Manhole covers that take 10 engineers and three months to design (cost: $243,000). Muni's management has produced su

  • News

    December 9, 1998
  • News

    December 2, 1998

    Rewarding Failure

    What's really wrong with Muni? For starters, one third of its employees don't show up to work, causing systemwide delays and costing the agency more that $20 million a year in overtime. First in a two-part special report

  • News

    December 24, 1997

    Take BART, Please

    We make Henny Youngman answer hard questions about regional transit and his mother-in-law

  • Calendar

    May 7, 1997
  • News

    April 30, 1997
  • Calendar

    April 16, 1997
  • Calendar

    October 2, 1996
  • News

    January 10, 1996
  • News

    December 27, 1995

    Willie's Wild Ride

    The Transport Workers Union contract with Muni is up for renewal, and TWU boss Larry Martin says that anybody who wants to roll back the union's cush work rules, lucrative salary structure, and handsome trust fund is a "racist" and can go to hell. Meet t

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