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BART PD Sgt. Tanzanika Carter with a young shopper at "Shop With A Cop" By MELISSA JORDANBART Senior Web Producer "It's the most wonderful time of the year," goes a popular Christmas tune. But the season is not so wonderful for many children from low-income families, who don't get their hopes up for a stack

By MELISSA JORDAN BART Senior Web Producer Austin James made a wish for something hundreds of thousands of people take for granted every day. The 13-year-old boy from San Pablo, who has serious medical conditions and uses a wheelchair, longed to ride a BART train. "This is his joy,' said Virginia D. Thomas

Stokes (left) with President Richard M. Nixon and his wife, Pat, in September 1972. By Mike Healy Former BART Spokesman Former BART General Manger B.R. (Bill) Stokes passed away peacefully Wednesday, May 15, at his daughter’s home in Sammamish, Wash. He was 89. Stokes was considered a pioneer in the

Armin Samii and Marylee Williams shown here with the bike that started it all By MELISSA JORDANBART Senior Web ProducerIf not for a fateful BART ride, Armin Samii and Marylee Williams wouldn’t be celebrating their five-year-long romance this Valentine’s Day. Back in 2016, he was staying late in San Francisco

A Sacramento company, WiFi Rail Inc., has finalized a 20-year agreement with BART to provide high-speed wifi service on the Bay Area Rapid Transit system. WiFi Rail has been testing the service for the past year in four downtown San Francisco stations, where more than 15,000 customers registered to use it

Tuesday May 30, 2017 Update BART Police now have the surveillance footage from on board the train car and are releasing this new photo: BART police are releasing a surveillance image of a man who is suspected of sexual battery on board a train car this week. The suspect is a black male, possibly 20-25 years

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

The BART Board of Directors has made a major step to improving the commute for hundreds of thousands of Eastern Contra Costa County drivers who battle the horrendous Highway 4 traffic each day. In a historic 7-to-1 vote this morning, the Board approved the first construction contract to build a 10-mile

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

Beginning on February 11, 2019, BART's start of service will shift from 4 am to 5 am systemwide for a massive project that will seismically retrofit the Transbay Tube. About 2,900 riders enter our system in that first hour of service. BART conducted extensive outreach this past spring which included surveys