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BART one step closer to securing $1.17 billion federal grant to increase transbay capacity
BART is one step closer to increasing the number of trains operating through the Transbay Tube and lengthening peak hour trains in a program designed to relieve crowding. The Federal Transit Administration today announced it has given BART approval to advance the Transbay Corridor Core Capacity Project into
BART website adds new trip plan functions, including bike directions, using Google Maps
The BART website ( www.bart.gov) just went live with new trip planning functions, including bicycle directions and station area points of interest that use the Google Maps API. In addition to walking and driving directions, you now can get bicycling directions between BART and any address using the BART
BART personal hand strap available for sale for riders wanting to avoid touching train car surfaces
As riders plan to return to BART, BART is working to accommodate to riders' concerns about cleanliness and possible COVID-19 transmission via touching surfaces. One solution is the personal BART hand strap, which is lightweight, easy to use and easy to clean. The BART hand strap is made of polyester and nylon
BART fares increase 6.1% starting July 1 as District deals with $250 million four-year deficit
BART fares will increase beginning July 1, 2009, by 6.1%, or an average fare increase of 20 cents. The fare increase was originally scheduled to take effect January 1, 2010, but the BART Board of Directors moved up the start date of the increase as part of its efforts to close a $250 million four-year deficit
Night Board meeting Thursday covers BART to OAK, Civic Center bike station, labor issues
The BART Board of Directors will meet Thursday, Sept. 25, at 5 pm to consider a number of important issues, including a new bike station at Civic Center that will expand secure bike parking, and ratifying the labor contract with the BART Police officers and managers unions. The Board also will receive an
BART could have been an elevated monorail and other fascinating facts from the Parsons-Brinckerhoff report
05.04.22 A rendering of a “basic supported system” train from the Parsons-Brinckerhoff report of 1956. In celebration of BART’s 50th anniversary this year, we’re looking back at the transit system’s five decades of service and innovation in a new series of stories. BART celebrates 50 years on Sept. 11, 2022
The details on doors: How forcing your way into a BART car can harm service for thousands
BART maintenance workers already are doing everything they can to keep as many cars as possible in service. But they’re facing a growing challenge because of an avoidable problem. BART’s service yards are spending precious workhours repairing train doors that were forced open by riders or otherwise damaged
BART looks to bolster number of police on trains by approving significant pay increase to help recruit officers
The BART Board of Directors has unanimously approved a new agreement that will increase police officer salaries to put the BART Police Department's (BPD) pay on par with other Bay Area law enforcement agencies. Before the Board’s action, BPD officer salaries were 19% below the market average for 10 local
BART PD arrests suspect wanted for fatal stabbing above 24th Street Mission Station
BART police have arrested 42-year-old Richard Henry Visor in connection with a fatal stabbing that happened last month at the street level on the 24th Street Plaza above the 24th Street/Mission Station in San Francisco. BART Police and the San Francisco Police Department have been working collaboratively
One Book, One BART: Pulitzer winner Hua Hsu on growing up riding local transit
In May, BART launched its first ever book club for riders, One Book, One BART. The inaugural book selection for the book club, which runs through August, is "Stay True," a memoir set in 1990s Berkeley by writer Hua Hsu. Hsu, a staff writer at the New Yorker and a professor of literature at Bard College, grew