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Seen & heard on BART this week: Fog town, iPad station, singing rooster
BART riders are a busy bunch -- taking trains to work, to play, to meet friends and travel around the Bay Area. While they're on BART they're gaming, crocheting, listening to music, reading and people-watching. Here's a fresh batch of things people saw and talked about on BART this week. We'll update this
BART riders get preferred access to Free Night of Theater 2011
Free Night of Theater is back for 2011, and giving you a chance to experience a new venue or type of performance by giving away thousands of FREE tickets from 50+ local performing groups and theater companies. See shows from ACT, Berkeley Rep, Beach Blanket Babylon, TheatreWorks and many more. Many of the
Cleaning at BART stations gets an overhaul: Walk along with a cleaning inspector
By MELISSA JORDANBART Senior Web Producer Cleaning at BART stations is getting an overhaul: A new zoned structure and program of "station ownership," along with daily cleaning inspections, is showing early signs of success. New cleaning supervisors have been hired like Luis Villatoro, who joined BART in
BART Customer Services representative opens the curtain behind answering and listening to riders
BART Customer Service representative Michelle Pallen-Mendiola poses with staff in front of merchandise booth at a community event pre-pandemic Daniel was on a plane ready to depart at SFO with his family for a wedding, concerned whether his parked car at Millbrae would be ticketed or even towed after he
Seen & heard on BART this week: carols, fake Chanel, E-40, meditation
BART riders are a busy bunch -- taking trains to work, to play, to meet friends and travel around the Bay Area. While they're on BART they're gaming, crocheting, listening to music, reading and people-watching. Here's a fresh batch of things people saw and talked about on BART this week. We'll update this
BART increases service for Giants parade; trains will run until 2AM
BART is gearing up to carry hundreds of thousands of baseball fans to downtown San Francisco on Friday, October 31 to celebrate the Giants World Series seventh game win. BART will run its rush hour service all day--using every available train possible. To ensure that everyone can get home safely, trains will
BART ridership up over Labor Day weekend, overnight ridership down
A total of 539,400 passengers took BART over the Labor Day weekend. That's 61,800 or 13% more passengers than BART anticipated would've taken BART had Caltrans not shutdown the eastbound lanes of the Bay Bridge for the entire weekend to perform earthquake retrofit work. The number of people who took BART
BART Police persistence pays off, results in arrest of armed and dangerous parolee
BART investigators seeking additional information from witnesses A parolee suspected of robbing a person - and who was considered armed and dangerous - sits in jail thanks to the tireless efforts of several BART Police officers who just wouldn't give up. The incident began at 10:25 p.m. on July 28, 2010 when
BART seeks input on improving Lake Merritt Station area neighborhood
If you live, work or play near Lake Merritt BART Station, or frequently commute to the surrounding neighborhood, we invite you to be a part of the planning process to improve this area. We are partnering with the City of Oakland and Peralta Community College District to redesign the area to better suit the
BART awarded $1 million by US Dept. of Transportation for roadway safety improvements
BART received a $1 million award from US Department of Transportation's Safe Streets for All (SS4A) Program to develop a safety action plan to improve roadway safety at and around BART stations, including potential improvements to bike/pedestrian access our stations. Through the SS4A Program award, BART will