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By JIAHAO HUANGBART Communications Intern BART is ramping up outreach to teens, encouraging them to switch to Clipper and away from paper tickets. Teens have until Jan. 1, 2018, to make the switch if they want a 50% discount, being expanded to teenagers 13-18, and to avoid paying a 50-cents-each-way surcharge

Latin Jazz Youth Ensemble By STEFAN MARTINEZ BART Website Intern On Thursdays at 12:30 pm, San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Gardens comes alive with music as part of the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival. Conveniently located two blocks away from the Powell or Montgomery BART stations, the Thursday Lunchtime Concert

BART employees in the styles of the 1970s The big 4-0. Lordy, lordy, look who’s forty. Is 40 the new 30? Forty and fabulous. Turning 40 prompts punchlines, but it’s a milestone for most humans – a time not only for reflection but also for looking ahead. So it goes with a transit agency, its employees and

Children who visit Coliseum and South Hayward stations from 5 pm - 7 pm on Monday, October 30, 2017, will get a special treat from BART’s Police Department. Officers will host BART’s second annual Halloween “Trunk or Treat” event, a safer alternative to the house-to-house Halloween trick-or-treating tradition

There are 16 home games left in the Giants regular season that fall on either a Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday night, so BART wants to remind baseball fans that late-night, mid-week work in the Transbay Tube may affect BART service after 10 pm. Another tip: Use Montgomery Street Station. Not only will it be

EXTRA SERVICE FOR FIREWORKS SHOW ON SUNDAY, JULY 4 On Sunday, July 4, BART will operate longer trains for those attending the Fisherman's Wharf / Pier 39 Independence Day fireworks display, which begins at 9:30 pm. After the show, BART will keep additional trains on standby to accommodate the extra crowds

By MELISSA JORDANBART Senior Web Producer Who’da thunk that BART would Splunk?Government agencies are typically associated with byzantine bureaucracy more than with agility and innovation. But BART’s Computer Systems Engineering (CSE) group is turning that on its head. They’re getting into Big Data in a big

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

Joseph Towner of BART's Office of Civil Rights with small business owner Susana Mendoza By MELISSA JORDAN BART Senior Web Producer More than two dozen small business owners turned out Thursday to learn about contracting opportunities at BART, particularly those funded by the $3.5 billion voter-approved

Cover page of survey results A rider survey about BART’s commute period bike pilot, when blackout restrictions were lifted on five Fridays in August, found varied results.Currently, there are bike blackout periods of about two hours during peak weekday commute times in which bikes are not allowed on some