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BART is taking swift action to reduce operating costs as ridership levels have significantly declined as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and shelter in place orders. BART has done an exhaustive review of ridership and train car loads this week and will make the following changes to service until further

The Richmond BART Station now has a newly designed accessible fare gate prototype to test BART’s next generation of faregates. The new design is the result of months of innovation by BART staff that has reduced the cost estimate for replacing fare gates across the system from $150 to $90 million, a 40%

BART has opened three new canopies covering downtown San Francisco BART entrances in recent weeks. The Montgomery St. Station canopy at the corner of Market and New Montgomery St. opened on April 17th. The Powell St. Station canopy at the corner of Market and 5th St. opened on April 24th and the Civic Center

Now that the Bay Bridge has reopened, BART is studying ridership data and feedback from new and infrequent riders, in hopes of attracting them to take public transit on a regular basis.. BART saw record ridership during the emergency bridge closure, suggesting that many Bay Area residents can take public

The BART Board of Directors voted today to move forward with a pilot project to install a canopy enclosure over the street level escalator entrance to 19th Street Station in downtown Oakland. Installing a canopy will not only protect the escalator, but will improve passenger and employee safety. The canopy

BART customers will be able to get to the world famous Bay to Breakers race in San Francisco on Sunday, May 18, 2014, because we’ll open early and run additional long trains. All BART stations will open early with service starting at approximately 6 am Sunday so racers can get to the race well before Bay to

Timetable for Sunday, May 17 BART customers will be able to get to the world famous Bay to Breakers race in San Francisco on Sunday, May 17, 2015, because we’ll open early and run additional long trains. All BART stations will open early with service starting at approximately 6 am Sunday so racers can get to

Timetable for race day BART customers will be able to get to the world famous Bay to Breakers race in San Francisco on Sunday, May 15, 2016, because we’ll open early and run additional long trains. All BART stations will open early with service starting at approximately 6am Sunday so racers can get to the

UPDATE: This board meeting will be livestreamed and recorded for future viewing. Rider safety will be the focus as the BART Board of Directors holds its Thursday, September 27 th meeting at 5pm at Pittsburg City Hall. The BART board voted in August to hold a special night meeting in a suburban location to

On July 1, 2021 we announced will return to near-pre pandemic service on August 2 instead of August 30 as originally planned. BART currently closes at 9pm. However, we run special event trains for the SF Giants night games, the Oakland A's night games and San Francisco's 4th of July fireworks. And from July