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New City of Oakland parking fee for Oakland BART lots
The City of Oakland is now requiring that an 18.5% tax be imposed on all parking fees collected in the City of Oakland, effective July 6, 2020. Because of this new parking tax, the new daily fee including this tax for parking at Coliseum, Fruitvale, Lake Merritt, Macarthur and Rockridge will be $3.55. The new
BART General Manager Bob Powers statement on VTA tragedy
BART General Manager Bob Powers made the following statement this morning in reaction to the tragedy at a VTA facility in San Jose:"On behalf of everyone at BART, let me extend my heartfelt condolences to the VTA family, our partners in Santa Clara County, following the tragic incident this morning. We in the
President Obama to award Medal of Honor to BART worker's son
Ty Carter (left) and his father, Mark President Barack Obama is scheduled to award the Medal of Honor today to Army Staff Sergeant Ty Michael Carter, an Antioch native whose father Mark is a BART electrician. Mark is in Washington, D.C. to see his son receive the nation’s highest military honor, but his
BART response to ad campaign paid for by Progressives for Immigration Reform
Advertisements paid for by Progressives for Immigration Reform went up this week in parts of the BART system. They’ve been placed primarily at San Francisco’s Civic Center Station and Oakland’s 19 th Street Stations with smaller numbers in other stations and in trains. This campaign complies with free speech
BART breaks post-pandemic ridership record
BART set a new post-pandemic ridership record Thursday with 224,721 exits, the highest number since March of 2020.
It was the third day in a row that BART ridership topped 200,000 exits. Ten of the top ten ridership days since the pandemic occurred in September, with weekday ridership remaining robust since Labor Day.
"While our ridership numbers have yet to recover to pre-pandemic levels, these high ridership days are proof that our work to improve the rider experience with the Safe & Clean Plan and other efforts are paying off," said BART General Manager Bob Powers.
This month, ridership was boosted by the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, the final A’s home games, and concerts and community events, including BARTable partner events like Oakland Pride and the Lafayette Art & Wine Festival.
At the same time, the latest numbers from BART Police show that the number of trains impacted by unwanted behavior has declined since the department boosted the amount of visible safety staff on trains and in stations. Through July of this year, we have seen both violent and property crime down on the system year over year. Overall crime is down 13% even as we’ve experienced this uptick in ridership.
BART Board President issues statement on labor contract vote
BART Board President Tom Radulovich issued the following statement: “Today the BART Board of Directors voted 8 to 1 to accept the $67 million offer that was agreed to at the bargaining table with our unions. We hope the unions will take the agreement minus the six weeks of additional paid leave that was
BART update on train derailment near Daly City Station
BART Spokesperson Alicia Trost released the following update: The derailment that occurred on Saturday May 20 th at 2:55 pm occurred at a rail joint about 400 feet from the Daly City platform. A rail joint is where two sections of rail are mechanically joined. It involved two cars in the middle of a nine-car
Instagram photo group draws inspiration from BART ride
Photo by David Baer By MELISSA JORDAN BART Senior Web Producer Art, technology and transit intersected recently when the East Bay IGers, a group of fans of the iPhone application Instagram, conducted its monthly photo-walk as a photo-ride – on BART. Instagram is one in a new wave of applications that let
Bay Area playhouse puts on play set aboard BART
April Grant and David Boyll in rehearsals for “2 Across” at Pacifica Spindrift Players. Two strangers, both tackling the New York Times crossword, meet on an empty BART train at 4:30 in the morning at SFO. The woman, a psychologist, is organized and rational. The man, unemployed, is flighty and free-spirited
First batch of new federal emergency relief allocated to BART
Today the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) is allocating the first batch of funds from the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2021(CRRSAA), which included $14B for public transit. This first tranche of funds is being distributed to Bay Area transit operators that