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By MELISSA JORDAN BART Senior Web Producer The Citizen Review Board that advises BART Police will continue considering a recommendation that BART PD adopt a policy for interactions with transgender people. “Most law enforcement agencies still don’t have those kinds of policies in place,” said Harper Jean

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 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

On Monday, September 14 th, BART will make improvements to its train schedule and will add more cars to help provide some crowding relief while we wait for the Fleet of the Future to arrive. The number of cars scheduled to be in service during the rush hours will be at an all-time record high, with additional

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

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 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 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

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