June 25, 2025
Drafts of Safe Trips to BART: An Action Plan for Safer Roadways and Focus Station Area Action Plans for seven stations have been released for your information. Please visit the Virtual Open House to access the documents, watch an informational video, provide feedback in a brief survey, and/or to sign up for the project email list. We look forward to getting your input no later than Wednesday, July 23.
Overview
Riding rail transit such as BART is 18 times safer than traveling in a passenger vehicle (1), and BART wants to make it safer to get to and from our stations and to increase accessibility. Safe Trips to BART: An Action Plan for Safer Roadways is a systemwide effort to improve roadway safety on city-, county-, town-, and state-owned streets the provide access to BART stations. The Plan builds upon existing or ongoing safety work led by local agencies, countywide authorities, the San Francisco Bay Area Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), and the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans). The Plan complements ongoing efforts led by BART, such as the Safe Routes to BART grant program other station access studies and projects, and the Transbay Corridor Core Capacity Program.
The goal of Safe Trips to BART is to identify investments that could reduce or eliminate traffic deaths and severe injuries, such as transportation infrastructure improvements on public roadways found on the High Injury Network around BART Station Study Areas, and BART service improvements that encourage more people to take transit instead of driving. Share your feedback on Safe Trips to BART by visiting the Virtual Open House starting June 25 and sign up for the project email list.
While Safe Trips to BART is a system-wide action plan for public roadways, it also identifies seven Focus Station Areas for individualized action plans and tailored infrastructure improvements. They demonstrate how partner agencies could use the Plan to develop similar summaries for project prioritization and funding applications. These Focus Station Areas were selected to cover all five counties that BART serves based on collision history and local agency input.
The final Plan will enable cities, towns, counties, and Caltrans to apply for funding to implement recommended improvements on public streets found on the High Injury Network in BART Station Study Areas. The development of this plan is funded by the US Department of Transportation’s Safe Streets and Roads for All program.
(1) Calculated using death rates per 100,000,000 passenger miles in the year 2022, which was 0.54 for passenger vehicles and 0.03 for railroad passenger trains from the National Safety Council’s Injury Facts, found at https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/home-and-community/safety-topics/deaths-by-transportation-mode
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