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For New Year’s Eve, Sunday, December 31, BART will run standard Sunday service (starting at 8am) but with an extended closing time and extra event trains.

• Last East Bay bound train running through downtown San Francisco will be at around 1:30am.
• Last southbound train heading toward Millbrae will run through downtown San Francisco at 2:10am (it will not stop at SFO).

Our 1am Extended Service will be as listed:

• Three-line special service (Yellow, Blue and Orange only in both directions, for total of six trains for 1am Extended Service). Yellow Line will be the only line running in San Francisco and Peninsula. Blue Line will run between Bay Fair and Dublin/Pleasanton.
• Trains will be waiting at 12th St Oakland, MacArthur and Bay Fair to complete timed transfers.
  • Yellow Line and Orange Line trains in all directions will be timed to meet at MacArthur Station at 1:47am in a "Grand Meet". This is the transfer point for riders coming from San Francisco heading toward Richmond or Berryessa or riders coming from the East Bay heading toward San Francisco.
  • Yellow Line and Orange Line trains will be timed to meet at 12th St Oakland. 
    • Riders boarding a Berryessa-bound Orange Line train heading to San Francisco can exit their train and wait for the Millbrae-bound Yellow Line at 1:55am on the same Platform 2 (Lower Level).
    • There will be a timed transfer at 1:43 am on Platform 1 and 3 (Upper Level) between Antioch-bound Yellow Line train and Richmond-bound Orange Line train.
  • Orange Line and Blue Line trains will be timed to meet at Bay Fair Station at 2:16am. Dublin-bound riders can take the Berryessa-bound Orange Line train and transfer at Bay Fair Station.
• SFO and OAK airport stations will NOT be served.
• Last East Bay bound train running through downtown San Francisco will be at around 1:30am.
• Last southbound train heading toward Millbrae will run through downtown San Francisco at 2:10am.

The regular last trains of the evening (Yellow, Blue, and Orange lines) will be dispatched from the end of their lines at midnight and then at 1:00am, we will run another set of last trains of the evening to serve 48 out of our 50 stations. The 1am trains will not serve SFO and OAK airport stations.

BART’s Trip Planner has been updated to include the extended service trains.

Avoid Vending Machines and Put Clipper on Your Phone

We encourage all New Year's Eve riders who need a Clipper card (BART no longer sells paper tickets) to add a digital card to their phone’s mobile wallet and to load round trip funds before arriving to BART. The funds will be available for immediate use. 

A digital card avoids the $3 plastic card fee and the hassle of waiting in long lines at machines. Here are the Google Pay and Apple Pay instructions. Do not download the Clipper app, go through your phone's wallet. 

Each person 5 years and older need their own Clipper card. There isn't a way to share one because you have to tag in and out at the fare gates. Multiple cards can be added to a phone's digital wallet, if you need to use multiple cards, turn off express mode so you can toggle through each one when entering and exiting at the fare gates. 

1am Extended Service details

Besides the extra event trains which be dispatched as available, only the Yellow line (Millbrae to Antioch) will run between San Francisco and the East Bay. Riders heading from San Francisco towards Richmond, Berryessa, and Dublin will need to transfer. Yellow Line trains will not serve SFO. Southbound Yellow line (Antioch to Millbrae) trains will run to Millbrae, stopping at all stations except SFO.

The Blue line will operate from Bay Fair to Dublin only. If travelling from San Francisco, Dublin-bound riders need to transfer at MacArthur to a Berryessa (Orange line) bound train and then transfer to a Dublin (Blue line) train at Bay Fair to complete their trip. These transfers will be timed meets to reduce travel time.

The Orange line (Richmond to Berryessa) will also run hourly to coincide with the other trains. Riders coming from San Francisco who need to transfer to a Richmond-bound train will do so at MacArthur; riders who need to transfer to a Berryessa-bound train (or Dublin) will do so at 12th Street. These transfers will be timed meets to reduce travel time. BART to OAK service will not be operating after regular BART hours.

Avoid lines, get Clipper in advance

Each rider 5 and older needs their own Clipper card to pay for BART fare.

For those who already have Clipper, make sure you have your roundtrip fare loaded (lines will be long at the station).

If you don’t already have a Clipper card, save $3 per plastic card, and add Clipper to your phone’s digital wallet for free. No app required. You can instantly load cash value with your Apple Wallet or Google Wallet.

For step-by-step instructions on how to add a new Clipper card to your phone, please go to Clipper's  Apple Pay page or Google Pay page for more information.

Parking

Parking is free on Sunday, except at Berryessa/North San Jose and Milpitas stations, which are owned and operated by VTA and parking fees are enforced on 7 days a week, including holidays. Monday, January 1, will also be free parking, excpet at Berryessa/North San Jose and Milpitas stations.

You can leave your car at BART lots overnight if necessary.

Stay Safe

Save these numbers in your phone:

• 510-200-0992 to text BART Police dispatch to discreetly report criminal activity
• 510-464-7000 to call BART Police in an emergency (It’s faster than calling 911)

We also offer the free the BART Watch app--a free mobile app available on the App Store and Google Play that allows you to quickly and discreetly report criminal or suspicious activity directly to BART Police.

You can reach the train operator using call buttons in each car. On old cars the button is at the end of the car, on new cars, the call button is by the side doors.

Note your train car number when contacting police or the train operator. The train number is located above the doors on the inside of each end of the train car.

BART will have extra safety staff working on New Year’s Eve to have more staff on trains, on platforms and inside stations. 

Sunday Service on New Year's Day

New Year’s Day, January 1, 2024, will be a regular Sunday schedule with service running 8am until midnight.

BART will run a Saturday schedule on Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. Saturday service means BART will open at 6am and close at midnight, and there is less frequency on the Yellow Line (service is every 20 minutes). BART will run all five lines from opening until around 9pm and three-line service from around 9pm until end of service.

For the most up-to-date schedule information use our Trip Planner or the Official BART App to plan your trip. 

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is also a parking holiday. Parking will be free at all stations except for Milpitas and Berryessa/North San Jose, which are operated by the Valley Transportation Authority. Consult the VTA website for more info on parking.

BART engineer Joshua Muñoz pictured in front of 19th Street/Oakland Station in the 2024 BART Pride t-shirt.  

Mechanical Engineer Joshua Muñoz was always a strong student. But in third grade, he got in trouble with his teacher. After finishing an English quiz, young Joshua flipped the paper over and began doodling. When his teacher came over to tell him to focus, she glanced at the back of the quiz and found it covered with an intricate design for a rollercoaster.  

From a very young age, Joshua has been fascinated by wheel and rail systems. The “weird obsession,” as he describes it, began one day at Knott’s Berry Farm as he stared up at rollercoasters so massive, they seemed to poke the sky. He loved the way the trains articulated and twisted, and how they moved loudly yet gracefully around the track.  

When he was seven, Joshua finally rode his first rollercoaster, Knott's Berry Farm’s iconic Montezooma’s Revenge, a flywheel-launched shuttle coaster. 

“I was too afraid at first to ride it. I actually got on then got off,” Joshua said. Eventually he conquered his fear and experienced the exhilaration of being launched at 55mph into a vertical loop, ascending a spike, then reversing direction. 

A photo Joshua took on Montezooma’s Revenge on his last visit to Knott’s Berry Farm in February 2022. He said,” This is the view I will never forget from my childhood.”  

Joshua’s coaster obsession kept growing. During his childhood, Joshua estimates he drew hundreds of rollercoaster designs, including a “gentle rollercoaster for old folks” and one called “Triple Knot,” which had a knot configuration that looped on itself three times.  

In time, Joshua’s interests expanded to include another class of wheel and rail systems (one without the loop-de-loops). That would be railroads, of course. Joshua said being able to combine this passion with BART's mission of safely carrying people around the region makes his work feel important and meaningful. 

Plus, he still gets to enjoy his rollercoasters. In August, he’s taking himself on a vacation to the amusement park Cedar Point in Ohio. “I’ve been ogling it since I was a kid, and I finally am in a place to treat myself,” he said.  

A photo of Montezooma’s Revenge Joshua took on his last visit to Knott’s Berry Farm in February 2022.  

Joshua’s dad was a Marine, and he grew up on Camp Pendleton, an military base in Oceanside, Calif. 

“I’m lucky it was a military base in a progressive area,” Joshua said, adding that his parents were “ultimately progressive.” 

But if there was one place on the base Joshua felt most comfortable, it was the pet supply store he worked at in high school. The manager was outgoing and accepting, the type of supervisor who didn’t take the work too seriously.  

“That environment allowed me to be 16 and gay. It was a nice escape after a school day to go work at the store. It gave me a lot of room to be outgoing and comfortable,” Joshua said.  

Joshua’s dog, Chip, (not adopted from the Camp Pendleton pet store) smiling on a sunny weekend day at Dolores Park in the Mission District of San Francisco.  

Joshua never had a formal coming out. “Judging by the pink shirts I bought at Hollister, I wasn’t hiding the fact that I was gay,” he said. “I was able to present as gay and didn’t have to come out. I do remember hearing remarks out loud here and there, but I am grateful that the harassment never reached harmful levels.” 

“You know, I still look good in pink,” he added.  

Given his love for rollercoasters, Joshua decided at a young age that he’d be a mechanical engineer. At Oceanside High School, he excelled in math and physics and knew he was on the fast track to a university engineering program.  

Then, his family moved inland. It was his senior year, and Joshua was faced with starting all over in an area that was wealthier, more conservative, and less diverse.  

“When we moved, I lost that open world I had back at Oceanside High," he said.  

At his new school, an English teacher pulled him aside after class to tell him to act less gay.  

“I know you’re out,” she told him. “You just have to be a little more cautious.”  

Joshua started to “check out” at his new school. Then he got a C in calculus. 

“I completely lost my confidence,” he said.  

After graduating, Joshua went to a community college to “recover” and get his bearings. He did exceptionally well, and after finishing his coursework, he applied and was accepted to the engineering program at University of California, San Diego. Finally, he was in the big city he dreamed about living in when he was a gay kid on the military base.  

“I couldn’t get down there fast enough,” he said.  

Joshua supported himself in college by working at Seaworld. He had a coveted job as a Dolphin Interaction Photographer (DIP) taking photos of people petting the park’s dolphins.  

“It was primarily a group of young women, and my manager was gay. I was lucky to be welcomed in that space. It was an extremely supportive environment,” Joshua said of his former coworkers.  

Joshua and friends celebrating Pride weekend in 2023. 

Joshua’s railroad career officially began when he became a PhD student, studying at Virginia Tech’s Railway Technologies program.  

Getting accepted into the program was a watershed moment for him. Finally, that C in calculus stopped haunting him.  

“My advice to students is don’t peak early,” he said. “I did the slow climb, the glow up. Know who you are and what your true passion is, not what others insist on you pursuing.” 

At Virginia Tech, Joshua wrote his dissertation on Doppler LIDAR as a multifunctional railroad surveying tool. Doppler LIDAR measures the velocity of a moving object based on the frequency differentials of emitted near-infrared light versus the scattered light that is captured by sensors.  

His graduate research is highly relevant to BART, which uses Doppler LIDAR for a variety of purposes. For example: BART’s new Rail Inspection Vehicle. As the vehicle moves along track, it measures a series or “railroad geometries,” such as superelevation, tilt, and the geometric curvature of the rail.  

After obtaining his PhD, Joshua worked at a series of railroad and consulting companies. He moved to the Bay Area in 2018 to work as a consultant on the Caltrain Electrification Project. Three years later, he found himself at BART.  

“I just love the BART system,” he said. “I used it all the time to visit my long-distance partner over a decade ago, who lived in San Francisco before I moved to the Bay.”  

Years before Joshua worked for the agency, BART was an integral part of his life that connected him to friends and experiences, including the Castro District in San Francisco, where he had many “meaningful queer experiences.”  

“I have all these memories now because BART carried me to these places and memories,” he said. “BART has connected me to the gay community and my favorite experiences for years now."  

Joshua is currently focusing on BART’s Berkeley Hill Tunnel’s emergency ventilation system (EVS) renewal project to replace the system’s old equipment and further bolster its safety and reliability. The work is fulfilling because Joshua knows he is part of a team that’s “holding passenger safety in their hands.”  

Joshua regularly mentors new engineers, including BART’s engineering interns, and contributes to youth outreach efforts. In five years, he said he sees himself in a leadership role where he can inspire young engineers and keep learning.  

BART has been welcoming and highly supportive of him and other LGBT employees, Joshua said. LGBT people bring a unique point of view and skillset to the workplace that benefits the entire organization. Diversity in perspective, experience, and thinking enhances and strengthens every project and situation you face at work, he said. 

"As a gay person, you come into the workplace with empathy because we have all experienced some form of discrimination in our lives,” he said.  

“We also practice resiliency because we have to. We’ve had to put in extra work to prove to others and ourselves our capabilities,” he continued. “And we have a drive to succeed, to prove our worth and demonstrate that we, too, are critical to our communities.” 
 

Joshua pictured with his abuelito, Luis Juarez, in matching train conductor hats. Luis was a railroad worker in his younger years. 

In 2019, Joshua’s family experienced the horrific impacts of hatred firsthand. Joshua's abuelito, Luis Juarez, was killed in a mass shooting in an El Paso Walmart that has been classified as a hate crime. The shooter was specifically targeting Latino people. At 90, Luis was the oldest victim. His wife, Martha Juarez, was injured in the shooting but survived. 

"The experience demonstrated that there is extreme hatred in our country,” Joshua said. “It showed me that all underrepresented, underprivileged communities in this country are living under the constant threat of physical violence, including the LGBT community.” Out in the Castro with friends, Joshua said he always pays attention to his surroundings and makes sure he knows where the exits are.  

The tragedy, he said, also made him stronger. It taught him the importance of resilience and leaning on others for support.  

“You don’t have to be alone in being resilient. The fight for resilience teaches you that you need your community to help with your recovery, to help you find your strength and move forward,” he said. “Find the people and resources you need to recover from a hardship, to understand your trauma, and to return to your life stronger." 

Joshua models the new BART Pride merchandise at Lake Merritt. 

This year, Joshua is looking forward to another jubilant Pride weekend. He’ll be celebrating with BART by walking with agency’s contingent, including the BARTmobile and a cool scissor truck, in the San Francisco Pride Parade.  

“Pride is a time for friends to get together and be ebullient in our celebration and spend the day happy. It is a day to have more pride in ourselves than the hate we receive. It is a day to be more stentorian than the raucous contempt in the world toward the LGBTQ community,” he said. “Pride reminds you that you are loved by your city, your friends, our family. And it reminds you to love and celebrate yourself.”