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BART runs longer trains, holds shopping safety events on "Black Friday"
BART will accommodate holiday shoppers by making trains as long as possible tomorrow, Friday, November 26 - the busiest holiday shopping day of the year, as BART Police staff hold morning holiday shopping safety events for many of the thousands who take BART to shop on "Black Friday." BART Police to hold
BART website provides real time Muni Metro arrivals for shared stations
The BART website now provides real time SF Muni Metro arrivals for shared BART/Muni Metro stations in San Francisco, including Embarcadero, Montgomery, Powell, Civic Center, Glen Park and Balboa Park. The arrivals are convenietly listed next to BART ETAs on the main BART website and the mobile BART website (
New study says SF, Oakland to weather gas prices because of BART
BART Ridership Up By 3 Million Passengers As crude oil prices cross the $70 a barrel threshold, a new study cites BART as a major reason why San Francisco and Oakland are ranked as two of the cities best-prepared to weather an oil crisis. An April 2006 study of the 50 largest U.S. cities by SustainLane ranked
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
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 and City of Fremont partner to provide Clipper cards to seniors
It’s now more convenient than ever for seniors 65 years of age and older who live in Fremont, Newark or Union City to get a free Senior Clipper card. The City of Fremont Human Services Department now accepts Senior Clipper card applications and can issue these special Clipper cards between 9 am to 4 pm
BART Police Department staff volunteer for Read Across America
Anansi Goes Fishing was one of the books read by BPD volunteers. Image via Amazon Kids at Roosevelt Elementary School in San Leandro got to hear storybooks read by BART Police volunteers as part of the Read Across America program in March.Jonathan Moreland, BPD Community Engagement Coordinator, said so many
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
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 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