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BART officials will be joined by community partners at two safety events as part of the Not One More Girl initiative to educate riders about safe bystander intervention tactics and preventing sexual harassment on BART.

Event Details

• Thursday, September 28, 2023, at Downtown Berkeley BART Station from 12pm-3pm. View the Flyer.
• Thursday, October 5, 2023, at Lake Merritt BART Station from 12pm-3pm. View the Flyer.

The Not One More Girl team will host these "Bystander Safety Zone" events to hand out our new bystander intervention safety cards and other informational material from the campaign, while speaking to riders about tangible things we all can do to make BART safer for youth.

Not One More Girl is a BIPOC youth-led initiative in partnership with community-based organizations and BART to end gender-based violence. Phase II of the campaign launched last month. 

• View a PDF of the "I Got You" bystander intervention card. 
• View a PDF of the "You Got Me?" bystander intervention card. 

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Bystander Intervention Cards for Riders

Two distinct wallet-size cards are now available to riders to discreetly hand to people to signal they need help or support, or to notify someone being harassed that you are there to help and support them.

These new bystander intervention cards are a concept developed by the youth design team, who expressed the need for options when asking for help or approaching a situation of potential harm. The cards include the slogans “I Got You” and “You Got Me?” with a list of actionable items riders can take to help a situation, from reporting the harassment to simply standing with someone. As young people are still trying to find their voices and figuring out how to navigate and decipher harassment, a physical card you can hand someone is an effective tool to precipitate the shift from being a bystander to becoming an agent of change.

The cards are available for pick up at each Station Agent booth at BART, and Ambassadors and Crisis Intervention Specialists will carry the cards and give them out when engaging riders. BART and the Betti Ono Foundation will also work to distribute the cards to youth through community organizations, events, and schools.   

BART will provide four trains with limited stops before regular BART service begins for Bay to Breakers on Sunday, May 18, 2025. The special service will get race participants to Embarcadero around 7am. 

The special early morning trains will pick up passengers for an Embarcadero arrival with limited service from the following stations: 16th St. Mission, Bay Fair, Daly City, El Cerrito del Norte, Dublin/Pleasanton, MacArthur, Millbrae, Pleasant Hill/City Center, and West Oakland. 

These four trains will go out of service once they drop riders off at Embarcadero. Riders cannot board a train at Embarcadero.  

Caltrain will be running two limited-stop, pre-race trains to San Francisco that will arrive before the start of the race (more info here), and SF Muni is providing pre- and post-race express service on several rail lines and bus routes (more info here).

Plan your trip using the BART Trip Planner. 

Special Service Details 

• One train will leave Millbrae at 6:30am, Daly City at 6:42am, 16th St./Mission at 6:52am, and then arrive at Embarcadero at 6:57am. No other stops will be made along the line.  

• A second train will leave Pleasant Hill/Contra Costa Centre at 6:23am, MacArthur at 6:43am, West Oakland at 6:52am, and then arrive at Embarcadero at 6:58am. No other stops will be made along the line. 

• A third train will leave Dublin/Pleasanton at 6:18am, Bay Fair at 6:35am, West Oakland at 6:56am, and arrive at Embarcadero at 7:01am. No other stops will be made along the line. 

• A fourth train will leave El Cerrito del Norte at 6:34am, MacArthur at 6:47am, West Oakland at 6:56am, and arrive at Embarcadero at 7:02am. No other stops will be made along the line. 

Regular systemwide BART service starts at around 8am. 

Tips 

BART parking is free on Sundays. People driving to BART to take the train should park at one of these stations being served: Pleasant Hill, El Cerrito del Norte, MacArthur, Bay Fair, West Oakland, Daly City, Dublin/Pleasanton, and Millbrae. 16th Street Mission does not have a BART parking lot. 

BART has loaded these event trains as special service into BART Trip Planner. The service is demarcated with "-> Limited Stop to Embarcadero" in the planner.  

Once on the platform, these four trains will be labelled as: “Limited Stop to Embarcadero.” 

Load your Clipper card in advance with enough funds for your full trip.  

If you don’t have a Clipper card, add one for free ($3 savings) to your phone’s wallet in advance and use Google Pay or Apple Pay. 

*This article was posted on April 30, 2025.

On January 13, 2025, BART will make schedule changes to accommodate the launch of construction to replace BART’s aged train control system with a modern Communications Based Train Control System.

The schedule change is happening in coordination with the region’s other transit systems as part of a collective effort to sync schedules, reduce impacts, and improve transfers for transit riders in the Bay Area.

Minor Adjustments

Overall, some departure times will shift by a few minutes, and we encourage riders to check the schedule before January 13, 2025, to see if their trip is impacted. 

The BART Trip Planner has been updated with the new schedule so riders can start planning their trips using the date January 13, 2025, and beyond. PDF timetables have also been posted. 

Late Night Construction between Colma and Millbrae for New Train Control System 

Crews will be working on the track between Colma and Millbrae nightly after 9pm to upgrade our train control system. To reduce delays from this work, the Yellow Line will terminate at SFO instead of Millbrae to provide the resiliency our system needs to keep trains running on time and as optimally as possible in this section of track during the construction.  

Late Night Changes for Millbrae Riders

After 9pm, Millbrae station will be served by a train that will run every 15 minutes between Millbrae and SFO only and riders will have an easy cross platform transfer at SFO to board a Yellow Line train to finish their trip. 

At Millbrae, two of the four trains each hour will be timed with Caltrain’s 30-minute service schedule to provide a good transfer between Caltrain and BART. 

As previously noted, after Red Line service ends each night, Yellow Line trains will terminate at SFO instead of Millbrae. Once at SFO, riders heading to Millbrae will cross the platform to board the Millbrae train, it will be labeled as a Yellow Line train to Millbrae. 

However, after midnight, the final four Yellow Line trains to SFO station will proceed to Millbrae (riders will not need to transfer for Millbrae service), similar to the current schedule. The final train of the evening will bypass SFO, as it always does, and go straight to Millbrae. This is consistent with the current schedule.

These late evening changes will be displayed in the PDF timetable and in the Trip Planner to guide riders. And the official BART system map online, and posted at stations, will indicate a change in trains is necessary between 9pm-midnight.

This nightly service plan for Millbrae riders is expected to last several years as BART has prioritized this section of track to be the first area to bring on Communications Based Train Control (CBTC) in the BART system. The state-of-the-art CBTC system will transform BART service by enabling trains to run closer together and by updating aged equipment. A modernized train control system will enable BART to increase projected Transbay capacity to 30-trains per hour per direction in the core system area, from the current limitation of 24-trains per hour per direction. 

Transit Coordination – The Big Sync

Bay Area transit agencies are now syncing schedules in a whole new way with a focus on improving transfers between systems and making schedule changes at the same time. 

Most Bay Area transit agencies are rolling out new schedules in mid-January in coordination with each other and have now aligned the timing of schedule changes twice each year, once in summer (mid-August) and once in winter (mid-January). Since 2022, the number of transit agencies with full schedule change alignment (changing schedules at the same time August and January) has increased from 4 to 20, for a 400% increase.

Advancing schedule change alignment is a key priority for Bay Area transit general managers who meet on a weekly basis to make transit more rider-focused and efficient. 

BART System Map for January 13, 2025 Schedule Change

View a PDF of the map.

BART PD has arrested a suspect in connection with a vandalism spree that hit three downtown San Francisco stations and caused hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage. 28-year-old Saqueo Delcidmontenegro of San Francisco was spotted aboard a BART train Tuesday evening by a BART PD Transit Ambassador who recognized him from an informational flyer. Officers were called to the train, and they arrested Delcidmontenegro.

Since October 5, 29 large glass panels have been damaged at the entrances to Embarcadero, Montgomery, and Powell Street stations. Many of the destroyed panels are part of new canopies that are being built over the entrances to downtown San Francisco stations. The canopies are required by state law to protect new outdoor escalators that are being installed at BART’s downtown San Francisco stations. The work is a vital part of BART’s efforts to improve the daily rider experience. The total cost of replacing all the damaged panels is estimated at more than $500,000.

Delcidmontenegro has been booked into San Francisco County Jail on five counts of felony vandalism.

BART will run a Saturday schedule on Presidents' Day, Monday, February 16. Saturday service means BART will open at 6am and close at midnight.

For the most up-to-date schedule information use our Trip Planner or our Official BART App to plan your specific trip.

Presidents' Day is also a parking holiday. Parking will be free at all stations except for Milpitas and Berryessa/North San Jose, which are operated by the Valley Transportation Authority (VTA). Consult VTA's website for more info. All other BART parking rules will be enforced.

BART wishes you a wonderful Filipino American History Month this October.

To celebrate, we are revisiting an interview with Crisis Intervention Specialist Caryl Blount that we published during Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month. In the story, Blount discusses her Filipino roots, her gratitude for her family (including her BART family), and shares her recipe for pork sinigang. 

BART celebrates heritage and diversity months throughout the year, and with stories such as CIS Blount’s, we hope to recognize some of the many exceptional employees in our organization.  

Celebrate the holiday by ordering your BARTy Jeepney t-shirt on Railgoods.com. 

CIS Caryl Blount pictured at Lake Merritt Station.

Last April, Crisis Intervention Specialist (CIS) Caryl Blount was finishing up her shift at Millbrae Station when she and her partner, CIS Dinah Amoah-Wynn, came across an elderly woman on the platform. It was a cold night, and the station was closing. The woman sat alone on the platform with her bags.   

Blount and Wynn walked up to the woman to let her know the station was closing and she needed to leave. The woman replied: “I have nowhere to go.”  

After talking to her, Blount and Wynn learned her name was Juanita and that she’d come to the U.S. from the Philippines a week earlier. She was only supposed to be in San Francisco for a few days, but she had missed her return flight. It appeared she’d been sleeping at the airport and riding BART back and forth between Millbrae and SFO Station.  

Blount and Wynn asked Juanita for phone numbers of people they could call for her, but she couldn’t remember any. They realized she was likely suffering from dementia.  

“She gave us puzzle pieces, and we had to put the story together from there,” said Blount.  

Juanita carried a notebook that contained drawings, recipes, scribbles, and fortunately, scattered phone numbers. So Blount and Wynn began dialing the numbers at random. One person picked up – it was a woman in New York named Elizabeth. Juanita, about 45 years prior, had been her nanny.  

It was the early morning in New York, and after the phone call from the CIS team, Elizabeth sprang into action and bought her former nanny a ticket back to Manila. She would arrange things with Juanita’s sister to make sure she was transported safely from the plane back home.  

Blount and Wynn then brought Juanita back to the airport and connected her with staff there, as well as the morning CIS team, who went to check on her the next day. Everyone wanted to make sure she got on that plane.  

A day or so later, Blount received a text from Elizabeth: “Juanita arrived safely in Manila!” She thanked the CISes for their work in getting Juanita home.  

The text message Blount has saved on her phone from Elizabeth.  

For Blount, the encounter was deeply personal.  

“She’s Filipino, and I’m Filipino. I was like, this could be my grandma!” Blount said. “I couldn’t give up on her. I had to find a way to get her home." 

Blount joined BART as a CIS in 2022, coming from Contra Costa County where she worked as a case manager. The job was similar to what she does now in some ways, but the CIS work is “much more hands on, much more challenging,” she said.  

Blount has been riding BART for most of her life. She grew up in Pittsburg and Antioch, and she had the opportunity to ride the trains for free thanks to her dad, Carlito, who worked at BART for 25 years before retiring a few years ago. Carlito immigrated to the U.S. from the Philippines in his teens. He started at BART as a car cleaner in the early 90s and worked his way up to become a transit vehicle mechanic, fixing the same cars he once cleaned. Blount still remembers going with him to Take Your Kids to Work Day at BART more than three decades ago. She couldn’t believe how many people it took to run the system.  

“I don’t think my dad really knows how much that one visit to his work impacted me,” she said. “I learned BART is run by this massive brain. It’s not just the train operators!” 

Blount and her father often bond about BART. She remembers calling him after she went to Milpitas Station for the first time, which opened in 2020.  

“I said, ‘Guess what, dad? I just went to Milpitas. Have you been there?”  

Blount said her father passed his intense work ethic down to her. Often, he’d leave for his shift at Concord Yard hours early just to make sure he got there on time and had a few moments to decompress before the workday kicked off.  

“He hated calling in sick, missing work,” she said. “And I’m the same way. My mom always tells me I’m just like him.”  

BART was such a big part of her dad’s life (and therefore her life) that Blount couldn’t be prouder to be a part of “the BART family” herself. 

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“My dad provided a safe and secure home for us, and BART helped him to do that,” she said. “That’s why BART will always have a special place in my heart.” 

In addition to her dad, Blount counts her mom and big brother as mentors. Her brother for teaching her street smarts, inspiring her to believe in herself and for always being there for her without judgement; and her mother for the sacrifices she’s made and the many hours she’s spent babysitting Blount’s three children while she and her husband, Jason Blount, are at work. Jason happens to also work at BART as a mechanic at the Oakland shops. Blount calls him "one of my biggest supporters." 

“It takes a village to raise my kids,” said Blount, who recently returned from maternity leave (It’s a boy!). “My mom holds it down for me so I can come to BART and be my best. That’s unconditional love right there.” 

Blount also credits her culture for forming her into the person she is today.  

“I have that Filipino pride,” she said. “I’m proud of the fact that my dad grew up poor and came here to make a life not only for himself, but for us and his grandchildren. My parents made a great life for us here, and I’m proud of that every day.”  

Blount makes sure her children know where they came from. Their dad is Black, and with Black History Month and AAPI Heritage Month being close to each other on the calendar, Blount and her husband go out of the way to celebrate and talk about their cultures.  

“We want them to grow up with a sense of where they came from,” she said. “A lot of the time that means story time with the grandparents.” 

A photo of Blount’s immediate family during the holidays. 

Each May, Blount’s family, including her many aunties, uncles, and cousins, gather for a celebration of AAPI Heritage Month as well as Mother’s Day and her parents’ anniversary (it’s a busy month for celebrating). The gathering revolves largely around food. On the table, there is always pancit, lumpia, chicken adobo, sinigang over rice, and lots of dessert.  

“Food is always at the center of everything. That’s where the conversations and the stories start,” Blount said.  

The kids love to ask questions of their elders. Blount remembers a specific conversation between her daughter and her great-grandmother, who was visiting from the Philippines.  

She asked things like, “What did you do for fun when you were a kid?” Blount said. And grandma would reply, “We played with rocks and sticks and built little houses,” to which her daughter would say, “You didn’t have Legos? No tv? No iPads? Wow, you must have been bored.”  

Blount often takes time to reflect on her roots and the differences in her upbringing compared to her elders, as well as her many family members who still live in the Philippines. She’s full of gratitude for her roots, she said, and especially for her large, supportive family.  

She asked: “Without them, who would I be?”  

Reyhana Shephard rides BART to Oakland School for the Arts (OSA) every day, but she had never seen a BART paper ticket before her fashion class began designing garments made with the old tickets for BART’s Project Doneway fashion show. The runway show was held last Saturday, Sept. 14, in the Rockridge Station parking lot and featured 35 original outfits created by more than 80 students at OSA, Academy of Art, San Francisco State University (SFSU), and City College of San Francisco (CCSF). The designers were cheered on by a crowd of hundreds. 

After weeks of designing, 17-year-old Shephard became perhaps too familiar with the paper tickets, which BART retired in 2023 in favor of Clipper cards. Her hard work paid off; Shephard won First Place in the high school category for her dress, entitled “BART of Hearts,” which was modeled by Jeylei Hernandez.  

“I couldn’t even say how many hours I spent on it,” Shephard said, revealing she used at least 1,000 tickets for the dress. “The tickets are so hard and stiff. It’s a challenge but also an opportunity.”  

There was only one rule for the competition: transform the paper tickets into high fashion. They created their looks using more than 150,000 paper tickets collectively. The students delivered, displaying garments inspired by everything from topographical maps and the Oakland skyline to cauliflower fractals and the Oakland Athletics. There was even a special Christmas tree dress created by OSA’s Meleina Beasley, 16, for her four-year-old sister Naxa Moon to model.  

“Our paper ticket designs have long shown up in artistic Bay Area cultural references,” said BART Chief Communications Officer Alicia Trost, who came up with the idea for the fashion show. “This event was inspired by a dress made out of BART’s iconic blue paper tickets by Sean Porter nearly ten years ago, and I wanted to offer students who rely on BART to get around the opportunity to showcase their talents.” It was also a great opportunity to reuse tickets that would otherwise head to the shredder, Trost said. 

Prizes were awarded for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place in the high school and college categories as well as “best use of paper tickets.” Winners received Clipper cards and Amazon gift cards at various price points, and the first-place winners will get the opportunity to collaborate with BART on new merchandise. All the garments from the show will be on display at BART Headquarters in the coming weeks. See the full list of winners below.  

OSA middle schoolers were also awarded prizes for designing “mini outfits” that were displayed on mannequins for the public to vote on. Za'Moria Spikes took 1st place and 2nd place went to Penelope Yap and Sophia Jones.

An extra award was added to the program for “best accessories,” which went to Academy of Art’s Jackson Tait and Ashlyn Springer for creating a t-shirt, crocheted belt, and crocheted bag that had the audience oohing and aahing and asking for replicas to purchase after the show.  

The show was judged by three local fashion luminaries: Charleston Pierce, Randy Wells, and Mary Campbell, who praised the designers for their creativity, craftsmanship, and hard work. The judges were effusive onstage as they announced the prizes. “We are so proud of you guys,” Pierce said multiple times during the ceremony.  

In the high school category, designers Evie Burger, 16, and Lila Damany, 17, came in second for a fierce two-piece outfit constructed of red BART tickets modeled by Lily Fritsch. Third went to 14-year-olds Isadora Oznowicz, Naomi Brack, and Patty Barajas for a green and yellow dress intended as a “farewell to the Oakland A’s.” Their garment was modeled by Gabbi Luevano.  

SFSU students Sebastian Vogelmann, Lux Anne Vargas (who also modeled the garment), Keeley Ward, Lexi Ulloa, and Hikari Nakatani, won 1st place in the college category for an incredible outfit that judge Wells said, “proved there are no limits to creativity when it comes to material.”  

An unusual feature of the garment was a repurposed car bumper, which model Lux wore as a collarbone embellishment.  

“I got into a car accident going to school, and this bumper fell off, so we just used it,” said Nakatani. “Now I take BART to school.” 

The team also won the award for “best use of paper tickets.”  

Second place went to SFSU designers Madison Macneill, Emma Wolfe, Dyllie Gilson, Grace Balelo, Sofia Cereghini, for a red design that “blends natures’ geometry with avant-garde fashion" and was inspired by the “alien appearance of cauliflower.” The team’s model, Mya, began bawling once she exited the runway – she was so proud of her team and their accomplishment.  

Finally, third place went to SFSU’s Katelyn Camacho, Edgar Garcia, Jude Ramos, and Eugene King for a garment inspired by the blue Power Ranger.  

“It’s just so creative, and we all love Power Rangers,” said judge Campbell.  

After the show, students were laden with bouquets and cards and cheered by the many people who came out to watch the show. It was proof that BART is so much more than a transit system – it's a means of connecting communities and creating space for art and creativity. It’s also a practical means of transportation for field trips to fabric stores, said Stephanie Verrieres, the head of the fashion department at OSA.  

"We are on BART all the time,” she said.  

The class took BART along with their fantastical paper ticket garments from their school in Downtown Oakland to the show at Rockridge, full of smiles and some butterflies. Many of Verrieres’s students had never participated in a fashion show outside of school, but up on the runway, they looked like absolute pros.  

“This fashion show is a really nice way to recycle the tickets. What else are you going to do with them?” said 75-year-old Liz Scotta, who is transit-dependent. Liz sewed an Elizabethan-style dress fit for a queen, entitled it ElizaBARTan. She broke five needles and burnt out her sewing machine in the process of creating the dress, which took her around 100 hours.  

Like many participants, Project Doneway was Scotta’s first ever fashion show. It had been on her bucket list for a long time.  

“Better late than never!” she said. 

Winners

High School Level 

All high school participants were from Oakland School for the Arts

1st Place High School

• Reyhana Shephard (designer)
• Jeylei Hernandez (model)

2nd Place High School

• Evie Burger (designer)
• Lila Damany (designer)
• Lily Fritsch (model) 

3rd Place High School

• Isadora Oznowicz (designer)
• Naomi Brack (designer)
• Patty Barajas (designer)
• Gabbi Luevano (model)

College Level

1st Place College AND Winner of Best Use of Paper Tickets

From San Francisco State University: 

• Sebastian Vogelmann (designer)
• Lux Anne Vargas (model- and designer) 
• Keeley Ward (designer)
• Lexi Ulloa (designer)
• Hikari Nakatani (designer) 

2nd Place College

From San Francisco State University: 

• Madison Macneill (designer) 
• Emma Wolfe (designer) 
• Dyllie Gilson (designer) 
• Grace Balelo (designer) 
• Sofia Cereghini (designer) 
• Mya (model)

3rd Place College

• Katelyn Camacho (designer) 
• Edgar Garcia (designer and model)
• Jude Ramos (designer)
• Eugene King (designer) 

Best Accessories

From the Academy of Art:

• Jackson Tait (designer and model)
• Ashlyn Springer (designer)