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Two more Clipper outreach events in March: Learn how to save on BART with Clipper
Outreach event held at 16 th St./Mission Station in February Still to come in March are four more outreach events where you can get a free Clipper card and learn how to save on BART by using Clipper. The upcoming events are: March 25, As vs. Giants Pre-season, 12pm--3pm March 27, Fremont Station, 4pm--7pm
Homeward bound: Woman who was BART’s 1st LEAD drug-diversion referral reunites with mom
By MELISSA JORDANBART Senior Web Producer Jessica is back home. The 23-year-old was living on the streets of San Francisco and battling drug addiction when BART Police Department officers made her their first referral in a pilot Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) program. LEAD is one of the several
BART PD connects young gunshot survivor to SF pro soccer team for a night to remember
By MELISSA JORDAN BART Senior Web Producer A dream team will make dreams come true Saturday night, July 15, for a group of young Oakland soccer players and their families. It began with the story of Isai Catalan, a bystander wounded in a drive-by shooting on the day of his 9 th birthday as he was out for a
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With solar power and more, Warm Springs may be BART's greenest station yet
Solar panels atop the concourse roof and parking areas provide power to the station. By RAQUEL CRITESBART Contributing Writer and Photographer What does it take to construct a state-of-the-art, environmentally sustainable train station? It was a long road to the March 25 grand opening, but BART, with its new
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
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
‘Everything happens for a reason’: BART Police officer played semi-pro soccer before joining department
When Tyler Mauldin was three years old, her father handed her a basketball. Instead of dribbling it, she started kicking it. Her dad, who played basketball for Stanford University, realized he needed a new approach. He bought her a soccer ball and enrolled her in a recreational league. At 10, Mauldin began
BART Connects: Local teens on the life skills you gain riding transit
“Knowing how to ride public transit is a big step in growing up.”
Read more BART Connects stories at bart.gov/bartconnects.
Tri-Valley teenagers Enzo Wu and Apardeep Singh have a message to parents: Get your kids on transit!
The high school senior and sophomore want people their age to understand that public transportation is an important tool. You don’t have to have a license, and you don’t have to beg your parents for rides. Seeking independence? Transit is the answer.
"Taking transit builds social confidence, which so many kids lack these days,” said Enzo. “Knowing how to ride public transit is a big step in growing up.”
To give his peers a leg up, Enzo founded the Dougherty Valley High School Public Transit and Infrastructure Club. He serves as president and Apardeep is the head of PR and social media. More than thirty students regularly show up to meetings, and it’s been an effective venue for educating their peers about urbanism and the role public infrastructure plays in their lives.
“Some of my friends won’t necessarily take transit everywhere like I do, but just getting the idea in their heads is a big step,” Enzo said. “Building transit skills now will come in handy many years down the line when you need to get to college, to work. That’s why I ride transit, and that’s why I’m advocating for kids my age to do the same."
About BART Connects
Tens of millions of people ride BART every year -- to work, dates, practice, friends, and fun. BART Connects tells their stories.
In June, BART Communications launched the second edition of BART Connects, a storytelling series that features real BART riders who span generations, neighborhoods, and walks of life. You can read their stories below.
In the coming months, the stars of BART Connects will take us for a ride in a series of video featurettes that will be regularly posted on BART social media.
You will also see the faces of BART Connects riders in advertising spaces in the BART System and across the region.
BART Connects grew out of a call for rider stories BART Communications launched in 2023 to learn how our transit system impacts people’s lives. The initial response made clear that BART means something to those who ride it.
Have a cool BART story to share? Submit a short summary at bart.gov/story. You may be the next BART Connects feature!