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San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District

  • Blogs

    July 11, 2011

    BART Shooting: Rally Planned Today Will Disrupt Transit Service

    ​Activists are planning  to slow BART service at the Civic Center Station this evening in response to the fatal July 3 BART police shooting. The protest, organized by a group called No Justice, No Bart, is scheduled to take place from 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m and could draw as many as 300 people. N ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2011

    BART Musician Adam Young Shares Tips on Busking for a Living

    ​Adam Young was playing in the Powell BART station yesterday. But it wasn't the Owl City lead singer Adam Young. The Bay Area's own Adam Young is a cellist who has just started his first year at the S.F. Conservatory of Music. During the summer months, he busks in BART stations to earn his liv ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 5, 2011

    BART Chief "Comfortable" With Officer-Involved Shooting

    Shooting in San Fran​BART is still reeling from the effects of the Oscar Grant shooting, with emotions resurfacing a few weeks ago when former BART cop Johannes Mehserle was released early from prison. Now the transit agency is finding itself again in an uneasy position after another officer shot ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2011

    BART Reopens After Woman Run Over by Train in Possible Suicide Attempt

    UPDATE: Officials say a woman got onto the tracks early this morning and lay down between the rails before a train ran her over. The operator of the train, which was entering the station at 35 mph, saw the woman on the tracks and hit the "stop" button, but the train didn't halt in time, according to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2011

    Oscar Grant Supporters Petition Department of Justice to Investigate BART

    The fight continues​More than 500 people have signed a petition urging the United States Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division to speed up its investigation of Oscar Grant's death at the Fruitvale BART station in 2009. Last year, before ex-BART cop Johannes Mehserle was convicted of involu ... 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

    June 16, 2011

    BART to Get Its Gay on for Pride

    Does it get any gayer than this?​Remember when The Daily Show made fun of San Francisco for getting, ahem, topped by Minneapolis as the gayest city in the nation? Well, perhaps BART is helping us try to make a comeback, just in time for Gay Pride. It seems that BART is now hopping aboard the gay t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2011

    Google Maps Now Tracks BART in Real-Time

    GoogleBART riders, kneel before Google​No need to rush out the door to catch that next BART train. We all know it will probably be late anyway. But to temper your anger over this often frustrating transit system, Google has rolled out its real-time tracking system for public transportation that's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2011

    Local Idiot Kicked Off BART for Talking about Weapons of Mass Destruction

    No more talk of WMD​After this week's killing of Osama bin Laden, we knew it wouldn't take long before that one comment about bombs and terrorism brought Bay Area transit to a screeching halt. This morning, during commute hour, BART booted a man off the train after he was reportedly scaring other ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2011

    Osama Bin Laden Is Dead, Bay Area on "High Alert"

    Aaaaand Scene!​Yes, we finally achieved the seemingly impossible -- we killed Osama bin Laden!But what does that really mean for us?While Bay Area leaders issue statement after statement celebrating the death of the No. 1 terrorist, it also seems during this time of triumph that we have to worry a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2011

    BART to Offer Late-Night Service

    BART still won't let you stick around for last call ​Earlier this month, we had posited this question: What could General Manager Dorothy Dugger's $1 million payout buy us? Well, BART just gave us the answer -- late-night service for six months!The Examiner reports that BART is considering the muc ... 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

    March 15, 2011

    BART Delays ... Again

    Late for dinner​Update 6 p.m.: BART trains are running on time. Go home before there is another mechanical breakdown.Original Story 2:39 p.m.:BART trains are running late, and they are expected to be even later by the time you leave work. The transit agency is reporting 10-to-15-minute delays on a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2011

    BART Back on Track for Morning Commute ... Just in Time to Cause More Delays

    Just in time​A few hours after fixing a massive derailment that shut down BART service in parts of the East Bay yesterday, separate mechanical issues set off new delays this morning. Officials are now reporting 15 minute delays on the trains after mechanical problems between the Embarcadero and Mo ... More >>

  • News

    February 9, 2011

    Most BART Riders Escape Tickets for Eating and Drinking

    Just in time​A few hours after fixing a massive derailment that shut down BART service in parts of the East Bay yesterday, separate mechanical issues set off new delays this morning. Officials are now reporting 15 minute delays on the trains after mechanical problems between the Embarcadero and Mo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2011

    BART Puts More Police On Trains

    You want it, you got it ​Two years ago you more likely to see a BART cop on YouTube than you were to find them on a train. Even after scuffles between BART cops and passengers were caught on video and the emotionally-charged trial of Oscar Grant, riders still said they wanted to see more police on ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 31, 2011

    BART Needs $2 Billion Worth of Repairs

    BART maintenance is a trainwreck. ​More than one-fifth of the equipment BART uses is in poor or shoddy condition -- and fixing it would cost taxpayers at least $2 billion, according to a January report by rthe U.S. Government Accountability Office.America's public transit facilities have -- for ye ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2011

    BART Oakland Airport Connector Gets More Expensive

    Pretty -- and pretty costly​A controller's memo sent to BART officials yesterday warned that constructing the controversial $484 million Oakland Airport Connector will drain millions more away from the system's general fund than previously believed. BART's failure to secure a $105 million Transpor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2010

    What Music Fans Would Avoid If BART Ran Later

    Yeah, we'd probably see some more of this.​Hey, club- and concert-goers: someday you may not have to leave weekend events early to get back to the side of the bay on which you live!By which we mean that BART is considering the possibility of running trains later on the weekends, partially for ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2010

    Bizarre, Baffling BART Ad Explained

    Uh-huh...​The other day, we noticed a striking ad at Civic Center BART. One one side was a turnstile meeting between an anthropomorphized duck holding a girl dolly and a girl holding a duck dolly. And on the right was the text "The brainchild of meeting haters." Taken together it was baffling. Tak ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2010

    BART Cops Hardly Ever on BART

    No police in this picture. No coincidence. ​In December of last year, SF Weekly wrote an article querying how much time BART police actually spend on trains. While studies -- and riders -- have been clamoring for more officers on trains for more than 15 years, until this year BART did not even mak ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2010

    BART Train Disabled In Tunnel Will Ruin Your Morning Commute

    ​If you're reading this as you walk out the door in the East Bay en route to San Francisco, you might consider having a second cup of coffee. No one's gonna notice. A BART train that broke down in the Transbay Tunnel at around 6:45 a.m. was just moved to West Oakland Station after a glorious half- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2010

    Will BART Spend Big Bucks To Change Station's Name?

    Take us to the 'Centre'! Tally-ho!​BART's board of directors is scheduled today to vote on whether the name of one of its stations should be made longer, more complicated -- and more expensive. At the behest of both municipal and corporate interests, BART may today opt to change the name of Pleasa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2010

    'Lucky Dog' Races Through BART Tunnels

    Black poodle 1, BART 0​A black, 10-pound poodle managed to bring BART to its knees this morning, as it ran wild through the tunnels, snarled rush hour service, and, so far as anyone can tell, got away clean. The animal exited the train at Lake Merritt Station around 7:30 a.m., then decided to take ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 13, 2010

    BART Delays for City-Bound Riders

    ​It's going to be one of those Mondays for BART riders heading toward the city from San Francisco Airport and Millbrae. A "trackside problem" or "equipment problem" at SFO has led to delays of 20 to 30 minutes for trains headed toward the city. BART is still experiencing residual delays following ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2010

    Oakland Airport Connector Project Wins Funding

    BARTHere it comes, whether you like it or not...​The Oakland Airport Connector project is not unlike a zombie -- it's terrible and it stinks, but you just can't kill it. The Metropolitan Transportation Commission today approved applying $20 million in state funds toward the projected $484 million ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2010

    Man on Tracks at Glen Park BART

    ​BART is experiencing delays due to an apparently unstable man running onto the tracks at Glen Park Station. "The situation is, one of our community service officers observed someone getting onto the tracks at Glen Park Station and run into the tunnel toward Balboa Park," said BART spokesman Jim A ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2010

    BART Approves Oakland Airport Connector, Punts on Unpopular Fare Rollback

    The project that just won't die ... won't die​BART's board today tabled the vote on the fare rollback no one wants and approved the Oakland Airport Connector no one needs. By an 8-1 vote, the board approved the revamped $483 million connector project, which was dealt a staggering blow when ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2010

    BART Riders Not Thrilled With Bogus Fare Reduction

    BART riders: Cleanliness is next to Godliness​Those embittered with the state of society invariably mutter that, in a democracy, the people always get the government they deserve. But if that's the case -- and it is -- then BART riders deserve both credit, and excellent transportation. We've writt ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2010

    Busy Day on BART Tracks: Parolee Chase, Passenger Trapped Beneath Train

    ​Passengers in BART trains spent an ungodly amount of time stuck going nowhere today, but it could always be worse. You could be stuck beneath the train, which was the case at Embarcadero not long ago. Major delays are in effect, and the condition of the rider is not currently known.

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2010

    How Does BART Manage to Spend $15,000 Per Car on 'Deep Cleaning'?

    ​This morning, the Chronicle ran an eye-catching little story about BART. Its synopsis: Half of the $4.5 million allotted for temporary fare rollbacks has been siphoned off into BART directors' "pet projects" -- including an astounding $750,000 to "deep clean" 50 train cars. That's $15,000 a car, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2010

    Baylinks: Chocolate, Spilled Booze, & Star Wars

    ​Why does the Millbrae BART station smell like chocolate and not, well, a BART station? [SFAppeal]Is the price of a Caltrain ticket about to go up? [Streetsblog]Get your culture on (free!) at the Divisadero Art Walk tonight. [Haighteration]Woman goes on a rampage and wrecks Richmond Delano's liquo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2010

    Bloody Weekend: Ilya Yurchenkov Gunned Down; Konstantin Tomashevsky Dies Mysteriously at BART

    View Larger MapThis was a heartbreaking San Francisco weekend for two painfully young men entering the prime of life. On Saturday morning 18-year-old Ilya Yurchenkov died after a late-night Friday shooting at Geary and Lyon. A suspect is in custody; police spokesman Boaz Mariles told SF Weekly that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2010

    Local Video: League510, They Come In Peace To The Beat

    Moving to a new place can feel like coming to a new planet, at least that's what it's been like for League510, who says they're from... outerspace. Producing a sound they've coined as "Town Techno" and ditching their "spaceship" in the Oakland Hills, they've released the video for the first single ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2010

    BART has 'Stockholm Syndrome,' Board Member Says

    Wait, that's not Stockholm...​Let's not mince words here: The BART board's asinine idea of using one-time state funds to temporarily save riders a few pennies for every ride is pandering to the electorate at its most blatant. It's bad transit policy. Hell, it's bad fiscal policy. The only thing it ... More >>

  • News

    April 7, 2010

    If BART reopens its public restrooms, then the terrorists win

    Wait, that's not Stockholm...​Let's not mince words here: The BART board's asinine idea of using one-time state funds to temporarily save riders a few pennies for every ride is pandering to the electorate at its most blatant. It's bad transit policy. Hell, it's bad fiscal policy. The only thing it ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2010

    Baylinks: Sunday Streets, Corpses, & Layoffs

    ​Does Muni's head of safety have one foot out the door? [SFAppeal]Shots of the year's first Sunday Streets. [SF Citizen]Tourist corpses. [Uptown Almanac]Oakland gets 99 new green homes. [On The Block]Backbend on BART. (PIC) [BART Diaries]City workers on layoffs. [Public Press]

  • 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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2010

    Transit Advocates Rejoice as $70M Shunted From Airport Connector to Muni, BART, Others

    Celebrate good times -- BART and Muni won the lottery!​Public transit advocates are all but dancing in the aisles of public transit following a ruling that yanked $70 million in federal funding away from the controversial Oakland Airport Connector and led to moribund local transit agencies being s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2010

    Board Members Predict Even Feds' Threats Can't Derail Oakland Airport Connector

    ​What will it take to derail BART's half-billion dillar planned extension to Oakland Airport? How about the price quadrupling while the anticipated ridership dropped by two-thirds? Nope. How about the predicted commute time actually being slower than the existing shuttle system? Nope. Well, how ab ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2010

    Oakland Airport Connector Lives to Be Controversial For Another Day

    ​The regional Metropolitan Transportation Commission moments ago voted to stay the course, applying $70 million in endangered federal funds not to the Bay Area's moribund transit agencies but a controversial, half-billion dollar proposed BART extension to Oakland Airport. "Closer than I thought, b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2010

    Civil Rights, Transit Advocates Urge BART to Abandon Half-Billion Dollar Airport Connector

    The community groups whose advocacy led to the federal government threatening to withhold $70 million from a planned BART connector to Oakland Airport moments ago made their case that the project is a costly boondoggle that does nothing for the poor and minority communities living near the airport ... More >>

  • Music

    January 20, 2010

    Authentic amigos at Tommy’s Mexican Restaurant

    The community groups whose advocacy led to the federal government threatening to withhold $70 million from a planned BART connector to Oakland Airport moments ago made their case that the project is a costly boondoggle that does nothing for the poor and minority communities living near the airport ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2010

    Bay Links: Fancy Food, Neutering, & Critical Mass

    via Burrito JusticeNeon BART! ​If BART plans were Threadless tees. [Burrito Justice]Delicious shots of what must be one of the most unimaginatively named events ever, "The Fancy Food Show." [SFist]Muni salaries: Are you getting what you pay for? [SFAppeal]Okay, we're late on this, but damn, this i ... More >>

  • News

    December 2, 2009

    Train patrol: BART plans increased police presence

    via Burrito JusticeNeon BART! ​If BART plans were Threadless tees. [Burrito Justice]Delicious shots of what must be one of the most unimaginatively named events ever, "The Fancy Food Show." [SFist]Muni salaries: Are you getting what you pay for? [SFAppeal]Okay, we're late on this, but damn, this i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2009

    BART's Lucky Break: Transit Agency Doesn't Lose $800K in State Grants

    ​Readers may recall a series of stories about a bizarre course of events in which a man who publicly condemned BART's board of directors as "servants of the devil" was subsequently awarded part of a multi-million dollar contract by that very same board. Accusations of being minions of Satan may ha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2009

    Cops: S.F. Policies Would Likely Have Prevented BART's Glass-Shattering Incident Here

    While being tossed through a plate-glass window is a staple of the action movie genre, it is less pleasant -- or common -- in reality. So when a BART police officer was caught over the weekend at West Oakland Station in a YouTube video titled "Officer Breaks Window With Drunks Face" it quickly beca ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2009

    BART Severs Ties With Controversial Contractor -- But State Official Says Money Earmarked for Project May Not Be Gone

    ​This evening BART canceled its pact with Nedar Bey after the controversial lighting contractor failed to provide documentation proving he'd lined up the necessary bonding, insurance, and licensing to handle a state-funded project at North Berkeley station. This is significant, as it is unclear if ... More >>

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