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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
Blind and low-vision riders gather at 19th St Oakland Station to learn how to navigate BART
Blind and low vision riders congregate in front of an opened door in a out of service Fleet of the Future train. BART hosted a safety orientation for the blind and low-vision community on Tuesday to demonstrate how they can navigate the system on their own and welcome back riders with disabilities. 19th St
Position open on BART Police Citizen Review Board – District 2 (Accepting applications until 9/16/22)
The BART Board of Directors is currently in the process of recruiting a District 2 appointee for the BART Police Citizen Review Board (BPCRB). The BPCRB is comprised of 11 members and resident (s) of the following counties: Alameda, Contra Costa, San Mateo or San Francisco. The District 2 position is
BART extends Yellow Line extra commute trains to Pittsburg/Bay Point as ridership continues to tick upward
Beginning Monday, June 22, BART is extending its 3 extra commute trains on the Yellow Line from Pleasant Hill to/from Daly City to Pittsburg/Bay Point to/from Daly City, as recent ridership data showed the need to extend the train service. On June 8, BART added 3 trains on the Yellow Line -- its current
BART General Manager to hold special Listening Tour with San Francisco State students to boost transit ridership
BART General Manager Bob Powers will be meeting with students at San Francisco State University on Thursday, November 4 from 1:30-3pm on campus about their transit needs and to hear their ideas to encourage more young people to ride BART. The visit to the San Francisco State campus will allow Powers the
No longer a rookie but still Big Rook: BART's longest-serving employee finds joy in his work
By MELISSA JORDAN BART Senior Web Producer In the spring of 1970 when Larry Williams first came to work for BART, he was -- in his own words -- "just a kid." Fresh out of Berkeley High School, he was hunting for a job. The new transit district had a position in the mail room, but Williams saw more. He saw
Art at BART: 15 years after its installation, a mural at Richmond Station continues to inspire
Artists Jos Sances (left) and Daniel Galvez (right). When creating an art installation in a highly trafficked public space, duration matters. While some artworks are intended to celebrate the ephemeral and the fleeting, BART often looks for the permanent and the durable when adding another mural to its
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.”
BART adds three more trains to Yellow line as ridership ticks up; new schedule begins 6/8
This service change has been updated as of June 22, 2020: BART extends Yellow Line extra commute trains to Pittsburg/Bay Point as ridership continues to tick upward. Read the update: https://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2020/news20200622 BART will be running a new schedule with minor adjustments starting next