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A soldier's story: On leave from Iraq, seeing the Bay Area sights with a free BART pass
Staff Sgt. Rod Starcke, photo courtesy of Oregon National Guard By Melissa Jordan BART Senior web producer On-the-job stress doesn’t get much tougher than a typical day for Rod Starcke, an Army staff sergeant with the Oregon National Guard who is deployed in Iraq. Starcke's unit provides security for the
September 23: Ride BART on All Aboard Transit Day and win prizes
Tuesday, September 23, is All Aboard Transit Day, when transit agencies encourage people to hop onboard their systems to experience their recent service and customer experience improvements.
On the morning of All Aboard Transit Day, BART staff will be stationed throughout the system to hand out special stickers to riders. If staff see you wearing the sticker later in the day, they'll gift you some BART swag (while supplies last).
All Aboard Transit Day is being held on a Tuesday because this day of the week has seen high transit ridership in the Bay Area, as well as significant traffic on freeways, bridges, and roadways. The day is a great excuse to take BART and other local agencies or perhaps to try transit for the first time.
All Aboard Transit Day is part of the Bay Area’s annual Transit Month, a celebration of regional transportation hosted by San Francisco Transit Riders and Seamless Bay Area with support from local agencies. Transit Month toasts the many trains, buses, and ferries that connect the region and uplift its communities, economies, and cultures and is a great opportunity to explore the places transit can take you and to connect with local agencies and riders.
The month is hallmarked by dozens of free events as well as a monthlong Ride Contest that invites participants to track their transit trips to win prizes, earn badges, and vie for top leaderboard positions. Sign up at ridecontest.com.
Mark your calendars: On Thursday, September 26, agencies will host All Aboard with Transit CEOs, a ride-along and happy hour with local transit leaders.
BART extended service for A's night games will not accommodate 7/2/21 post-game fireworks show
BART continues to provide additional trains after regular BART service ends for fans departing A’s night games at the Coliseum. Since the start of the 2021 MLB season, BART has provided extra event trains for fans who attend the 6:40 pm A's night games after regular BART service ends approximately at 9 pm
BART permit parking to be run by new vendor; email with more details will be sent
Special Note on BART Permit Parking Programs BART recently rebid its Parking Permit management contract and has awarded the new contract to Select-a-Spot, LLC effective July 1, 2012. BART patrons with parking permit accounts as well as those on station parking permit waiting lists should expect to receive an
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
No BART service between Lafayette & Pleasant Hill Wed. noon-3:30pm, bus bridge set up
In cooperation with the ongoing NTSB investigation, on Wednesday, October 23, 2013 from noon to 3:30 pm, BART will need to operate a bus bridge between Lafayette Station and Pleasant Hill/Contra Costa Centre Station. This means there will be no BART train service between Lafayette, Walnut Creek and Pleasant
BART launches Transbay Tube Trivia Contest to mark 50 years of service
BART has launched an online trivia contest to help celebrate a half-century of service in the Transbay Tube. Do you know how fast trains travel through the Tube? How deep it is?
One lucky person who correctly answers these questions will be chosen at random to receive a $50 gift card to Railgoods, BART's official merch store. The winner will be announced at an event to be held later this month (the winner does not need to be present to collect the prize).
The contest is live now and runs through Thursday, September 12.
Click here to enter the Transbay Tube Trivia Contest
BART to run longer trains but no extended service on Halloween weekend and Oct. 31
BART will run longer trains in and out of San Francisco on the evenings of Friday, Oct. 28; Saturday, Oct. 29; and Monday, Oct. 31, to accommodate customers expected to be attending Halloween weekend and Halloween night festivities there. However, there will be no extended train service on any of the nights
BART offers chance to throw out first A’s pitch; moves sports fans throughout the Bay Area
Here at BART we love all our Bay Area sports teams, win or lose, professional, college, pee-wee league and more. And we’re proud of moving the fans (and sometimes the players) to their destinations. This year, we’re doing something new with regard to the Oakland Athletics, one of our longtime sponsorship
“Don’t think you can’t do it”: Women in engineering at BART on their triumphs and challenges
When Phoebe Cheng was little, she loved stories. She found that reading and storytelling could transport her to far away places, help her stand in someone else’s shoes, and shed light on why things are the way they are. In school, Cheng discovered new passions – this time for math, physics, and computers