Celebrate Transit Month with BART this September
Ride transit, attend free events, win prizes, and connect with the community
This September marks the Bay Area’s tenth annual Transit Month. There are many opportunities to get on BART and celebrate the public transportation that keeps the Bay Area moving.
Hosted by San Francisco Transit Riders and Seamless Bay Area with support from local agencies, Transit Month toasts the many trains, buses, and ferries that connect the region and uplift its communities, economies, and cultures.
Transit Month is a great opportunity to explore the places transit can take you and to connect with local agencies and riders. The month is hallmarked by dozens of free events as well as a monthlong Ride Contest that invites participants to track their transit trips to win prizes, earn badges, and vie for top leaderboard positions. Last year, riders logged some 3,000 transit trips across every Bay Area agency. Sign up for the Ride Contest at ridecontest.com and start logging trips September 1.
BART’s hallmark event this year will be the Let’s Glow! BART Anime Festival on Saturday, September 6. Learn more about the celebration of art, anime, transit, and music here and RSVP (optional) at bartletsglow.eventbrite.com.
And be sure to mark your calendars for All Aboard Bay Area Transit Day on Tuesday, September 23, when we encourage the region to ride transit. BART staff will be riding trains and handing out stickers and surprising riders wearing the stickers with fun BART prizes.
Lastly, a virtual bonus: On the first day of Transit Month, September 1, BART will release the first of 12 YouTube videos of sped-up footage of the entire BART system – one line and one direction at a time. We’re calling it the BART Cab Cam, and every Monday for three months we’ll unveil a new video. Only Train Operators get to experience these views! Subscribe to BART’s YouTube channel to be alerted when a new video is posted.
Below, we’ve highlighted some of the month’s BART-centric events. Find the full event schedule at sftransitriders.org/transitmonth. Some programming is virtual.
Selection of Transit Month Events
September 1, 9:30am to 10am, 19th St./Oakland - Fairyland’s Big Birthday Party Parade from 19th St. Station
September 6, 4:30pm to 8pm, Warm Springs/South Fremont – Let's Glow! BART Anime Festival
September 6, 1pm to 5pm, Berryessa and Richmond – Books and BART Takeover with Silent Book Club Oakland
September 9, 6pm to 9pm, Castro Valley -- Learn to Juggle at Castro Valley BART
September 14, 10am to 4pm, Millbrae – 53rd Anniversary BART Speedrun
September 20, 9am to 3pm, Embarcadero – Peaks and Alleys: A BART to BART Walk
September 21, 11:15am, Hayward Station - Sunday in the Park Without Having to Park
September 23, all day – All Aboard Bay Area Transit Day
September 24, 3pm to 6pm, Salesforce Transit Center (Embarcadero) – Pop-up Transit Art Fair
September 26, 3pm to 6:30pm, 19th St./Oakland – All Aboard with Transit CEOs Ride-Along and Happy Hour, including BART GM Bob Powers
September 28, 10am to 3pm, MacArthur – Bay Bridge Trail Anniversary Ride
September 28, 10am to 6pm, Embarcadero – YPT SF Bay Area: Transit Month Amazing Race
