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Celebrate Earth Day with BART at the 5th annual Blue Sky Festival

April 22 marks the 45th anniversary of Earth Day - and it also happens to be the date of BART’s fifth annual Blue Sky Festival - so join us from 11:00 am to 1:30pm at Justin Herman Plaza in San Francisco for a lunchtime eco-celebration! There will be environmental learning opportunities and giveaways from

BART to open early and run long, extra trains for 2016 SF Pride

Download the 2016 Pride timetable BART will be opening early at 7:00 am on Sunday, June 26th to accommodate revelers attending San Francisco’s annual LGBTQ Pride parade. We strongly encourage customers to take advantage of this pilot opening time to beat the crowds and take one of the early trains downtown

Essential work of cleaning continues at BART: “We can make it through this”

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BART station and train car cleaners are using this time of lower ridership to rev up their cleaning efforts. "We're tasked every day to maintain the cleanliness of the station for the safety of the customers and also for the workers here," said cleaner Chad Briscoe as he worked at Pittsburg/Bay Point Station

BART Police Chief Ed Alvarez on how to build a progressive policing presence

Chief Alvarez regularly walks trains to interact with passengers. Shown here on Feb. 1, 2021; note the poster at left behind blue seats advertising the text-BPD line. Story by MELISSA JORDAN | Photos by MARIA J. AVILABART CommunicationsEd Alvarez has worked his entire career to meet this moment. Reflecting on

BART replacing HVAC units for more comfortable climate on train cars

We recognize temperatures can be uncomfortable sometimes for riders on crowded trains, so we are in the process of replacing the heating, ventilation and air condition (HVAC) systems on the most problematic cars. There are 230 “second generation” cars and these have far more HVAC problems than the 439 earlier