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World Series parade boosts BART ridership to highest day ever - past half-million
Giants fans at BART/Photo by Margot Duane BART carried the most riders of any day in its 38-year history on Wednesday -- 522,200 -- many of them going to cheer the San Francisco Giants in a World Series victory parade. The highest previous single day of BART ridership was Oct. 29, 2009, during an emergency
New Carpool to BART parking program being rolled out with easy app payment
BART is rolling out a new carpool program that will make it easier than ever to pay for a parking spot at BART. The Carpool to BART program is now available at four stations: Dublin/Pleasanton, Orinda, Antioch and Warm Springs stations. The new program provides riders who carpool to a station the ability to
BART elevators set to receive makeovers, will be closed as flooring replaced
UPDATE 12/14/2015: THE MODIFICATIONS ARE ON HOLD. (We are addressing some technical issues with the modifications and will post a new schedule as soon as the issues are resolved). It’s no secret that BART’s elevators can be filthy – and part of that problem stems from shortcomings surrounding the original
BART is now on Twitter! Follow us for news, photos and commute color
BART is on Twitter! First we spruced up our website to give you more real-time info and interactive features. Now we’re also on Twitter, the social networking and microblogging service that started right here in the Bay Area. It’s an experiment of sorts because we don’t know what kind of tweets (the 140
BART builds pipeline for escalator-elevator techs to keep system moving safely
By MELISSA JORDANBART Senior Web Producer From street to concourse, from concourse to platform, a system of exquisitely complex people-moving machines chugs away each day at BART. If trains are the face of BART, these machines -- escalators and elevators – are its circulatory system, propelling passengers who
BART to open early, run long trains for 2019 Bay to Breakers Race
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 to small businesses at construction expo: We need your help to rebuild
Fei Liu of BART's Office of Civil Rights, right, talks with a conference attendee By MELISSA JORDANBART Senior Web Producer At the Small Business Construction Expo in Oakland on Friday, dozens of small business owners stopped by the BART table to learn more about how to get a foot in the door for BART
BART to offer its most robust Pride service ever for SF Pride 2023
Thanks to improvements in BART’s Sunday schedule over the last year BART will offer more service for the 53rd annual San Francisco Pride Parade and Celebration than for any past Pride Sunday. This year’s parade will be held on Sunday, June 25th. On the day of last year’s parade BART handled 133,905 trips
After 2 million miles in service, first legacy BART car heads to the recycler
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 Police Explorers: Program exposes youth to law enforcement careers, builds character
Explorers from BART Police Explorer Post #413 do push-ups at a training session By MADELEINE VALDEZ BART Communications Intern These young adults are a team. They join together to learn together. They train together. They compete together. They are Police Explorer Post #413, a youth organization sponsored by