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Art at BART: Art installation at Warm Springs/South Fremont Station captures beauty of station’s surroundings
To enter Warm Springs/South Fremont Station from the eastern side, you must first find yourself under a rotunda, which covers the escalators that will ferry you to the platform. But if you stop for a few moments and look up – or even down at the refracted light on the ground – you may have an undeniably
BART rolls out new, easier-to-clean seats: 100 train cars to get a seat makeover
Today BART showcased its latest seats by rolling out a four-car train outfitted with brand new, easier-to-clean seats. The special train made a quick journey between the 19th Street and Montgomery Street stations and back, picking up passengers along the way. CUSTOMERS SPOKE, BART LISTENED“You spoke and BART
Watch: BART representatives speak at Senate Select Committee on Bay Area Public Transit on 5/16/23
BART Assistant General Manager of External Affairs Rodd Lee and interim BART Police Chief Kevin Franklin gave their remarks on May 16, 2023 at the Senate Select Committee on Bay Area Public Transit at Sacramento. Please watch the video above for full remarks made by Lee and Franklin. Lee and Franklin spoke of
BART rents portion of Castro Valley Station parking lot to company combatting housing crisis through ADUs
If you’re taking BART to the Castro Valley Station off Redwood Road, you may notice a peculiar sight in the parking lot. Two tiny homes, created by the Bay Area-based company Spacial, have landed at the spacious lot, which is currently underutilized by passengers as BART continues to welcome riders back to
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Take BART to Second Sky Music Festival, limited late night service Sunday 9/19/21
BART will provide extra event trains to support the Second Sky Music Festival taking place at the Oakland Arena on Saturday, September 18th and Sunday, September 19. On Sunday, BART closes early but will provide very limited late-night service which will require attendees to plan ahead. BART’s Coliseum
World Engineering Day 2022: BART fosters new generation of young, diverse UC Merced student engineers
BART engineer Derry Moten leads the UC Merced Capstone Design program for BART On a sunny weekday in February, a group of UC Merced students trekked to the Bay Area to study pigeons. Huddled around the concourses at Richmond and El Cerrito del Norte stations, the students craned their necks at the ceilings to
Family Paths: BART holiday toy drive benefits agency that puts mental health front and center
By MELISSA JORDAN BART Senior Web ProducerThe holiday season can bring added pressure to families already coping with mental health stressors and stigma: A parent may feel they have nowhere to turn when a baby cries inconsolably, joint custody gets strained, or there is no money for a tree, much less presents
BART Board to get update on planned improvements for all transit in the Bay Area
The BART Board of Directors will get an update at their board meeting tomorrow, January 25, 2024, on the ongoing efforts of Bay Area transit systems to work together as one coordinated network to grow ridership and make transit easier to use.
Transit agencies in the Bay Area are committed to advancing exciting improvements in fares, customer information, coordinated schedules, and accessibility as outlined in the Transit Transformation Action Plan released in 2021. The plan is in coordination with the Metropolitan Transportation Commission which is providing funding to launch multiple pilot projects, studies, and planning efforts.
As transit agencies work towards a potential regional transportation ballot measure in 2026, the implementation of this plan will help build confidence in transit.
The plan includes:
- Testing new fare policies such as unlimited region-wide transit passes and free/reduced cost transfers between systems through Clipper.
- Exploring changes to regional fare structures to keep things simple and affordable and identifying what new funding would be needed to implement changes.
- An emerging new unified look for all transit agencies with consistent signage and new maps that show riders how to get around.
- Coordinated schedules that change at the same time and that improve connections.
- Increasing bus priority lanes to speed up bus trips and improve reliability.
- Improved regional paratransit trips.
- Ongoing advocacy for new funding to pay for all the changes and ensure agencies can maintain and enhance service, improvements to safety, and increased accessibility.
These improvements are critical for transit agencies in the Bay Area to showcase what a well-funded transit network looks and feels like. “Bay Area transit is not business as usual,” said Alicia Trost, Chief Communications Officer at BART. “We are listening to our riders and working on a new vision and better future that features cleaner, safer, easier to use transit.”