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­ Fifty years ago, BART first opened for service, marking a new era in transit for the Bay Area. That same year, Don McLean’s “American Pie” jingled on the radio, the Watergate scandal unfolded across international headlines, and NASA launched its first Space Shuttle Program. Today, fifty years later, the

BART officials are encouraging U2 fans to buy round-trip tickets and to get to the Coliseum/Oakland Airport Station before midnight for their trip home following the band’s concert at the Overstock.com Coliseum in Oakland on Tuesday, June 7. The concert is scheduled to end at about 11:30 Tuesday night, which

BART will run longer trains to accommodate San Francisco Giants fans heading to AT&T Park for the Giants versus Houston series on July 3, 4 and 5. In other schedule news for the holiday weekend, BART trains will operate on a regular weekday schedule on Friday, July 3; on a regular Saturday schedule on

Photo: Richard T. Walker, The Speed and Eagerness of Meaning. Courtesy of the artist and Christopher Grimes Gallery, part of a current YBCA exhibt By STEFAN MARTINEZ BART Website Intern Every first Tuesday of the month at noon, a magical thing happens in San Francisco: “free Tuesdays” at several downtown

The City of El Cerrito recently celebrated the grand opening of 48 new bicycle lockers at the El Cerrito Plaza BART Station along the Ohlone Greenway. These bike lockers offer several advantages: No reservation required: these lockers are not reserved in advance. There are plenty of lockers available and all

For the past two years, BART’s grazing goats have munched away at dried grasses around BART property. It’s a winning deal for the bleaters and for BART: the goats want to eat, and BART wants to sustainably mitigate fire hazards around its property. And the public love them, too; earlier this year, BART

The BART Board of Directors will meet in Oakland at 5pm on Thursday August 28, 2014 to get updates and take action on a variety of topics of interest to riders and the Bay Area. On the fourth Thursday of each month, the Board meets during the evening (except for November and December) as part of a pilot

The BART Board of Directors at its meeting today approved a transit-oriented development project at the West Oakland Station that includes 762 housing units of which more than 30% have been designated as affordable. The approval by the BART Board comes after the City of Oakland approved the specific plan and

BART customers will be happy to know that they won’t see their fares go up or their train service cut thanks to the budget plan General Manager Dorothy Dugger proposed for the upcoming fiscal year. Despite facing a looming $10 million deficit, Dugger strongly opposed fare hikes and service cuts as the

The weather is hot, and the sun is blazing. At long last, summer is in full swing in the Bay Area. This past winter was a rainy one, and we can tell locals (and visitors, too!) are eager to stretch their limbs in the sunshine and explore the nooks and crannies of the region. How do we know? Last Saturday