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Bike to Wherever Day 2025 is almost here! This Thursday, May 15, join BART to celebrate cycling as a green, fun, and practical way to get around. At BART, we don’t just celebrate BARTable experiences, but BIKEable ones too. 

BART will be hosting “energizer stations” throughout the system. If you visit one of the BART stations listed below on Thursday morning, you’ll be greeted by Bike to Wherever Day volunteers handing out free stuff, like coffee and donuts and the famous Bike to Wherever Day swag bags.    

Bike to Wherever Day began in 1994 as Bike to Work Day to encourage people to ditch their cars and hop on their bikes. The annual event has since transformed into a monthlong celebration of bicycling, called Bike to Wherever Days. The cornerstone of the month is Bike to Wherever Day. 

We hope to see you at a station! Questions? Visit BARTable’s Frequently Asked Questions page. 

Learn more about bikes on BART at bart.gov/bikes. 

Bay Area Bike to Wherever Days is sponsored by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. BARTable is proudly partnering with Bike East Bay, the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, and the Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition, who are hosting energizer stations across BART-served counties.  

BART and BikeHub are sponsoring Bike to Wherever Day energizer stations at all three of BART’s valet Bike Stations on Thursday, May 15: 

Fruitvale Station

Fruitvale Bike Station

7am - 10am 

19th St. Station

Uptown Bike Station   

4pm – 6pm 

Downtown Berkeley Station

Berkeley Bike Station  

7am - 10am 

Bike to Wherever Day energizer stations will also be located at the following locations throughout the BART system: 

San Mateo County  

Daly City BART 

6:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m 

San Bruno BART  

7:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. 

Millbrae CalTrain Station, southbound platform 

7:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. 

Millbrae Transit Center West Plaza - near escalator entrance to CalTrain platform 5 

7:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Friday May 16th 

Alameda County  

Ashby BART 

7:00 a.m. – 10 a.m. 

West Oakland BART 

7:00 a.m. – 10 a.m. 

Dublin/Pleasanton BART 

7:00 a.m. – 9 a.m. 

West Dublin/Pleasanton BART 

7:00 a.m. – 9 a.m. 

MacArthur BART 

7:00 a.m. – 10 a.m. 

Lake Merritt BART 

7:00 a.m. – 9 a.m. 

Hayward BART 

6:30 a.m. – 9 a.m. 

South Hayward BART 

6:30 a.m. – 9 a.m. 

Warm Springs BART 

7:00 a.m. – 10 a.m. 

San Leandro BART 

7:00 a.m. – 10 a.m. 

Union City BART 

7:00 a.m. – 10 a.m 

Contra Costa County 

El Cerrito Plaza BART 

7:00 a.m. – 9 a.m. 

El Cerrito del Norte BART  

7:00 a.m. – 9 a.m. 

Richmond BART 

7:00 a.m. – 9 a.m. 

Pleasant Hill/Contra Costa Centre BART 

8:00 a.m. – 10 a.m. 

Antioch BART 

6:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. 

Pittsburg Center BART 

7:00 a.m. – 9 a.m. 

On Sunday, Dec. 10, BART rang in the holiday season with our riders during our inaugural SweaterFest ‘23. More than a thousand of you showed up to Rockridge Station to celebrate with us – a reminder of just how much the Bay Area loves BART.  

We encouraged attendees to wear their BART holiday sweaters – from 2023, 2022, or 2021 (the first year we launched the sweaters) – and pose for a group photo on the steps to the station. You can view the photo and more snapshots from the joyous event in the above slideshow.  

Some BART fans showed up as early as 11am – three hours before the start of the event – to be the first in line to buy a 2023 holiday sweater. By 2pm, the line to purchase BART merch snaked around the Rockridge sign and the plaza. 

“I didn’t know BART had a fashion line,” said one rider passing through the station.  

In addition to selling tons of BART-themed gifts, including the last-remaining 2023 holiday sweaters and beanies, we also launched our BART Stamp Rally with official BART passports, and handed out lots of free BART merch, including number plates and the new BART train plushie.  

Thanks for coming out, Bay Area. Happy Holidays!  

This year, BART sold 3,500 holiday sweaters in total. To help meet the strong demand, we pre-sold 2,370 sweaters earlier in the year. We ordered more than 1,000 additional sweaters to sell during the holiday season and were thrilled when they sold out quickly.  

If you weren’t able to get a sweater before they sold out this year, we encourage you to stay up to date on all things BART by following us on social media (click the icons at the bottom of this page), signing up here for our BART News email subscription, and downloading the official BART app.  

Congressmember Lateefah Simon tours Fruitvale Station.

BART’s efforts to put rider safety first are paying off with another drop in violent crime. For the first three months of the year violent crime on BART fell by 23% compared to last year. The latest drop comes on top of a 17% decline in overall crime on BART in 2024. 

BART’s efforts to enhance rider safety were a focus of a tour by East Bay Congressmember Lateefah Simon (CA-12) who visited the 19th Street and Fruitvale stations in Oakland. Congressmember Simon recently met with BART in Washington, D.C., and this visit was an opportunity to get an in-person update on the progress BART has made in recent months on rider-focused safety, cleanliness, and accessibility improvements. Congressmember Simon previously served as BART Board President and BART District 7 Board Member. 

“I believe that BART will be the nation’s safest transit institution,” said Congressmember Simon. “You know why? There are [transit-dependent] folks like me who don’t have a choice, who aren’t jiggling car keys. They are riding BART because unfortunately, mobility in many parts of the Bay Area is still a privilege. We’ve made it a right here at BART.”  

The implementation of BART’s Safe and Clean Plan has been at the forefront of putting rider safety first. The plan includes boosting visible train patrols, installing Next Generation Fare Gates, right-sizing trains to create safer spaces, improving station lighting, and other rider-focused initiatives.

“This steep decline in our violent crime rate would not be possible without the hard work of the people of the BART Police Department,” said BART Police Chief Kevin Franklin. “We will continue to deploy sworn officers as well as non-sworn unarmed Crisis Intervention Specialists, Transit Ambassadors, Fare Inspectors, and Community Service Officers to maximize our presence in the system and ensure BART is welcoming for all.”

BART has already installed Next Generation Fare Gates at 29 stations and remains on track to have the new, more durable gates in place at all 50 stations by the end of this year. The new gates are improving the station environment by serving as a deterrent against many instances of fare evasion and reducing the amount of unwanted activity in the system. A recent survey found the number of riders who have reported seeing fare evasion on BART has dropped by almost 1/3 since installation work began for the new gates.

Let’s all ride BART to the movies... 

Buy tickets on Railgoods.com

• Single tickets
• Discounted family pack (4 tickets)

BART invites you to join us beneath the big Bay Area sky for a family movie night on Saturday, August 16, at Concord Station. 

We’re transforming the station parking lot into a camp-themed movie theatre, where we'll screen the beloved film Madagascar once the sun sets and stars emerge. The king of the lemurs likes to “move it move it” almost as much as BART likes to move the Bay Area. 

Before that iconic song gets stuck in our heads, BART will be screening never-before-seen footage filmed from a Train Operator’s point of view along all 131 miles of the BART System. The virtual ride offers a sped-up and mesmerizing perspective of the Bay Area from the five BART lines end to end.  

While we wait for the sky to darken, attendees can enjoy a series of family-friendly activities, including crafts and lanyard making, face painting, a BART uniform try-on station, photo ops, and Under the Stars stickers and giveaways. 

Bring your BART Stamp Passport (or pick one up at the event) to get the Under the Stars stamp. Fill up the pages of your passport to redeem a cool prize. Stamps are available at select BART events.  

On Railgoods, you can purchase single tickets (click here) or a discounted family pack of 4 (click here). Your Railgoods receipt will act as your ticket. Everyone must have their own ticket. The price includes admission to the event, a bag of popcorn, a small disposable water, and fruit snacks.    

We will be selling tickets at the door (credit/debit/Apple Pay/Google Pay only). 

Railgoods will also sell a selection of BART merchandise, including a new BART System Map fleece blanket to be unveiled at the event. 

The station parking lot will be covered with turf, but attendees should bring their own low chairs, blankets, pillows, and whatever else they might need to be comfortable for the duration of the screening, expected to be just under two hours. We will have ADA-accessible bathrooms, misters to keep people cool, and hydration stations onsite – bring a water bottle. 

BART hosts events throughout the year to encourage people to ride BART and gather with their community. Learn more about fun stuff happening at BART at bart.gov/fun 

Under the Stars BART Family Movie Night 

Where: Concord Station parking lot 

When: Saturday, August 16. Doors open at 7pm for 8pm showtime 

Corner seat, headphones on, notebook out. Eyes drift between the window and the page. Pen scratches paper as the train slides beneath the bay and into San Francisco.  

By the time the train hums into 16th St. Station, high school senior Sehinne has scribbled some solid one-liners. Nothing's concrete, but she’s got the first rumblings of a concept or idea or phrase that could blossom from a wisp on the page into a poem. 

the Bay is my siren 

it pulls me in towards murky waters of Lake Merritt 

and tells me I am in a spring 

how can I leave the Bay when every good idea I've come up with was made on BART?  

i jot down one-liners whispered to me upon my train stopping at 19th St. 

Sehinne wrote these lines on BART. The poem that grew from them, titled “BART,” was the first to “break the nine barrier” at the 2025 Brave New Voices slam poetry festival, meaning every judge scored Sehinne's piece a nine or above. Sehinne’s group, Team Youth Speaks Bay Area, took home first place. 

BART takes Sehinne from San Leandro to 16th St. Mission every week for her internship at Youth Speaks, a nonprofit in the Mission that gives young people space to unearth, develop, and amplify their voices. It’s not the destination, it’s the journey, and for Sehinne, the journey is where much of the work happens.  

“Transit became something I started writing about when I realized I was always writing on it," she said. "BART has always given me a safe space to write and be inspired and be creative." 

BART has been part of Sehinne’s life since she was young, riding into San Francisco to see family or to wander around the big Macy’s store downtown. In time, her BART trips became avenues to something more than a physical location. 

Once she started high school, Sehinne began riding BART almost every day – to school, to thrifting in Berkeley, to her favorite museums in Oakland and San Francisco. Riding BART solo is a rite of passage for Bay Area kids like her, she said.  

“The first time I took BART by myself was when I really knew I was starting to grow up,” she explained. “There are so many good life lessons you can learn just traveling around your region by yourself. It’s almost like a sense of pride you’re able to figure it all out.”  

Besides, "Do you want all your plans to happen on your parents’ time, or do you want to get places on your own?” Sehinne chooses the latter. Always.  

It wasn't until sophomore year that Sehinne began writing poetry, spurred by a class assignment asking: what does social justice mean to you? Her pen didn’t stop until the page was filled.  

“My teacher was like, ‘Dang, you’re a poet,’ and I was like, meeee?” she recalled.  

The many poems that followed this first piece consistently explores activism and social justice. It turns out writing is one of the best ways to release your frustration with the state of the world, Sehinne discovered.  

The “BART” poem expresses some of those frustrations, centering her experience as a “lower middle class” kid in a region with staggering income inequality: 

we are the protectors of a misrepresented region 

BART is my protector 

he picks me up at almost any type of night because he knows I am broker than a joker 

and that $16 Uber is $15 above my price range 

BART is misrepresented  

people who claim they’re from the Bay but have never gone further east into Oakland than Los Pericos 

and don't even imagine what the streets of the hundreds look like  

try to tell me BART is dirty, BART is dangerous. ‘My son is 16 and hasn't rode on BART once.’  

first of all, mmm, f--- you, do you think that your son is better than me because I've been riding BART since the 6th grade?  

i'm sorry that my mother of four and nurse to 400,000 of Oakland does not have time to be my chauffeur 

In the poem, Sehinne personifies BART as her “second uncle twice removed on my city’s side.” He’s reliable, a little eccentric, and always there for her.  

“BART was made for people like me who were raised by their city,” she writes. “...he shows up late and he shows up loud, but he shows up for me always, and that just might be the most Bay thing about him.” 

Bijou McDaniel, Youth Speaks Director of Narrative Change and Communications, said many Youth Speaks poets rely on public transit and, like Sehinne, have a strong emotional attachment to the transit systems that carry them.  

“BART is such a literal connecting vehicle for our young people, especially as we’ve seen the demographics of San Francisco change and young people being pushed out to the different corners and edges of the Bay Area,” she said. “They’re still able to attend our programs and events...and I know without BART that wouldn’t be possible.”  

Many Bay Area arts organizations believe it is critical to locate near public transit to ensure their spaces are accessible to artists and regionwide audiences, and many partner with BART through our BARTable program to co-promote riding transit to their venues. 

In 2024, Youth Speaks served as a partner and judge for the BART Lines Teen Poetry Contest, which solicited works from local youth to appear in BART’s free Short Edition Story Dispensers. Through arts programming, BART’s Art Program and Communications department are working to amplify the voices of Bay Area young people. We understand that the words and ideas of young artists like Sehinne are building a roadmap for the future, one that is informed by lived experiences and culturally specific histories.  

The “BART” poem came to Sehinne when she was in the planning stages for Brave New Voices, which was held this year in Wisconsin. She wanted to bring the Bay with her, and writing about her “second home” BART just made sense.  

One of her favorite moments from the trip was finding out Team Bay Area made it to the finals while the group was eating in a local restaurant.  

“We were screaming, and people were looking at us like we were crazy, you know, bringing that hyphy to Wisconsin,” she remembered. “They’re not used to it out there.”  

Now in her last year of high school, Sehinne’s starting to think about life beyond the Bay. She’s found herself paying closer attention to those everyday scenes that stream by in the train windows.  

“It being my senior year and all and not really knowing where I’ll end up, whenever I ride BART now it’s really just trying to capture a memory of everything see so I can take it with me everywhere I go,” she said.  

"I hope you all start riding BART more often,” she said, addressing the region. “Maybe you’ll get inspired, too.”  

Read more BART poems by young writers in BART’s short story dispensers and online at bart.gov/bartlines.