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BART will stop all trains on the system for about one minute at 10:21 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 20, as we participate in the annual statewide earthquake preparedness event called “The Great California ShakeOut.” Organizers indicate that the ShakeOut is the largest earthquake drill in the world. While BART

It’s not your imagination. BART trains are still getting more crowded, especially in the peak commute hours. In 2012 BART carried more than 114 million riders, surpassing all records. BART also set an all-time single-day record of 568,061 as the Bay Area celebrated the 2012 Giants World Series victory. The

Officials held ribbon cutting ceremony today Early tomorrow morning, drivers exhausted by fighting gridlock and pollution in the I-580/I-680 corridor will begin to find relief in the form of a brand new BART station. BART will open the West Dublin/Pleasanton Station to fare paying passengers at about 5:45 am

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

Bike to Work Day returns this Thursday, May 14 for the 21st year in a row. This also marks the second year that bikes are allowed on BART trains during Bike to Work Day, and recent survey results confirm that riders are comfortable sharing space with cyclists conscientious of the bike rules. Tomorrow, the

­ 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

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