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As fire season heats up, BART grounds crews are in high gear to reduce risk
By MELISSA JORDANBART Senior Web Producer With the hot, dry days of fire season upon us, the work of BART’s dedicated groundskeeping crews becomes more important than ever.Think about the never-ending nature of pulling weeds in your home’s yard, then imagine keeping up the grounds for 121 miles of trackway
Midway through pilot, tests of new filters and UV light on BART show promise
By MELISSA JORDANBART Senior Web Producer BART is about midway through a pilot that is testing new, denser air filters and UV light to create even safer ventilation on trains, as the region rebounds from the pandemic and ridership ticks up. BART cars already have air that is very well filtered; an entire
Rockridge and Warm Springs monthly permit payment and waitlist moves to the official BART app
Reserving parking at Rockridge and Warm Springs stations is now available through the BART official app. Rockridge and Warm Springs customers will need to transition from Select-aSpot to the official app to purchase monthly reserved, single day reserved, and multi day (previously known as Airport/Long Term)
BART designates last car of each train for those honoring fallen SFFD firefighters
Tomorrow BART asks riders to join the agency in extending sympathy to the hundreds of fire personnel riding BART together in the last car of each train as they make their way to and from tomorrow’s funeral honoring the two San Francisco firefighters who died battling a house fire on June 2, 2011. Fire
BART offers automated service alerts on Bluesky social media platform
BART has made service alert information even more accessible to the public by adding an automated BART Service Alerts channel to its Bluesky account (@bart.gov). As of Friday, April 11, there is now a dedicated feed for real-time BART Service Alerts (@alerts.bart.gov) to inform riders when multiple trains are off schedule by ten or more minutes. Unlike other social media platforms, Bluesky does not require a login to view BART’s timeline.
BART has been providing informational content on Bluesky since November 2024.
“Service alerts offer critical and timely information for our riders to help them make decisions about their ride,” said Alicia Trost, Chief Communications Officer. “We want this information to be easy to find and on the platforms people use. The Bluesky social media platform is growing in popularity, and our followers have been asking for our automated service alerts to be posted there.”
BART Service Alerts are available:
- On bart.gov and the BART Official App (the app offers customized in-app notifications).
- On the bart.gov Alerts and Advisories page
- Via text or email alerts.
- On the social media platform Bluesky at @alerts.bart.gov and X at @SFBARTalert.
- Via third-party apps through BART’s Developer Program.
- Alerts are posted on platform digital signs in BART stations and audio announcements are made inside stations and onboard trains.
BART will run Saturday service for the 2020 Martin Luther King holiday with free parking
BART will run a modified Saturday schedule on the Martin Luther King holiday, Monday, January 20, 2020. The system will open at 6am and trains will run 20 minutes apart. We will run longer trains than usual for a Saturday. The service from Richmond will start an hour earlier than usual for a Saturday. There
Take a quick survey about bart.gov for a chance to win a $50 Clipper card!
Thank you for participating! This survey closed as of noon on Tuesday March 13. We expect to be contacting the winners of the Clipper card prizes by the end of March. We’re trying to serve you better here at www.bart.gov so we have a quick survey asking what you want from our website if you use it – and why
BART Board planning to adopt Warm Springs fares at July 23rd meeting
With the Warm Springs extension project rapidly approaching completion, the BART Board of Directors is set to adopt the station’s new fare schedule at the 5 pm night meeting on July 23 rd. A public hearing on the projects fares was held on June 25. The Warm Springs Extension adds 5.4-miles of new tracks from
BART PD reports surge in arrests as more officers patrol trains
Felony arrests on BART increased 62% last year compared with 2022. The jump comes as BART PD has been aggressively recruiting new officers and ensuring safety staff are riding more trains to increase their visible safety presence. BART officers recorded 726 felony arrests in 2023 compared with 448 for 2022. Along with those arrests 49 illegal firearms were seized in 2023 compared with 40 the previous year. It’s the most guns BART PD has recovered in a year since at least 2003. BART PD has already recovered a dozen firearms so far this year.
“These latest arrest and gun seizure numbers are a credit to all the hard work of our officers,” said BART Police Chief Kevin Franklin. “Since we started deploying more patrol officers to ride trains we have seen an impact, and our riders are telling us they notice the difference.”
In the latest Quarterly Performance Review the percentage of riders who reported seeing BART PD on their trip reached a record high of 20%. That’s up from the previous record of 17% the previous quarter. The last two quarters have been the first in BART’s history where the percentage of riders who reported seeing BART PD exceed the department’s official goal of 12%.
BART has been working to implement its Safe and Clean Plan which focuses on boosting the visible safety presence in the system and increasing staffing to clean trains and stations.
BART PD has also been advancing an aggressive officer recruitment campaign to fill its remaining vacancies. This effort has been boosted by a 22% salary increase for officers, which was approved by the BART Board to ensure BART PD remains competitive with other law enforcement agencies in the Bay Area. Anyone interested in joining BART PD can learn more at joinbartpd.com.
(Examples of recently seized guns)
BART Police, working closely with SFPD, arrest Balboa Park Station stabbing suspect
A suspect is in custody this afternoon just hours after allegedly stabbing a customer entering the Balboa Park Station. The suspect, identified as Wilfred Brown, transient, 09/21/1975, was taken into custody after a joint search by BART Police officers and officers from the San Francisco Police Department