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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
Community listening session on behalf of the California Department of Justice and BART PD (3/9)
The BART Police Department and the California Department of Justice (Cal DOJ) have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) to work with BART PD to independently evaluate the reforms put in place by BART PD and the BART Board of Directors, with the goal of improving BART PD policies where applicable
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
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
North Concord Station gets guaranteed parking with the Scoop to BART carpool program
Starting on May 21, 2018, BART patrons can carpool to the North Concord/Martinez Station and get guaranteed parking until 10:00 a.m. when they use carpooling app, Scoop. BART will allocate permit parking spaces at North Concord station specifically for carpoolers using Scoop. The app efficiently connects