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BART will be providing additional trains serving limited stops after regular BART service ends for fans departing San Francisco Giants night games. The special service begins June 25 for the Bay Bridge series against the Oakland A’s and will continue for every night game until August 2, 2021, when midnight

2017 is shaping up to be an important year for the BART Police Department. In the latest edition of our podcast series “Hidden Tracks: Stories from BART” we take a closer look at the citizen oversight model that’s playing an important role in charting the direction of BART PD. The department is one of the few

Story dispensers are currently located at Fruitvale, Richmond, Pleasant Hill, and Balboa Park stations. Since January 2021, BART has offered riders at select stations a side of literature with their commute. In partnership with Short Édition, BART’s Short Story Dispensers distribute bite-size tales that can

Linda Drattell tries out a seat First of nine meetings is Sunday, May 1 By Melissa Jordan BART Senior Web Producer The public gets its first look this week at an interactive seat lab where riders can give feedback on what they'd like to see in new BART train cars. It's part of the research for the Fleet of

BART is planning for a very eventful weekend across the Bay Area and will not be single-tracking anywhere in the system for its Measure RR-funded rebuilding efforts. BART plans to run longer trains and select additional event trains this weekend as riders head to various festivals, parades and events in both

BART has been awarded a grant to develop an on-demand ride-hailing van service for passengers using wheelchairs for use when elevators are taken out of service. BART, in partnership with the Community Resources for Independent Living, already has one wheelchair accessible van positioned at the Hayward Station

Decommissioned BART car 2528 at Schnitzer Steel in Oakland. For a BART rail car that had carried customers for more than 2 million miles, it was an unglamorous end. On November 8, 2019, car 2528 was lowered by a crane onto the back of a big-rig truck. Its final journey was 20 miles through the gridlock of I

BART has completed its preliminary investigation into a Sept. 16 incident in which a large 1000 volt arc of electricity adjacent to a train entering Civic Center Station created smoky conditions and required the evacuation of the train and the station. Based on preliminary findings, the BART System Safety

BART customers will be able to get to the world famous Bay to Breakers race in San Francisco on Sunday, May 19, 2019, because we’ll open early and run longer trains. All BART stations will open early with service starting at approximately 6am Sunday so racers can get to the race well before the race begins at

BART customers are likely to see law enforcement officers from other agencies patrolling BART parking lots and stations as the nation’s transit agencies continue their vigilance following the death of Osama bin Laden. BART Police Chief Kenton W. Rainey, at the request of Transit Security Administration, has