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Domestic Violence Prevention
The San Francisco Asian Women’s Shelter (AWS) and artist Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya are partnering with BART to launch a domestic violence prevention campaign, “Let’s Talk About Us,” to reach Bay Area residents and BART riders. The public art campaign seeks to start a conversation on preventing violence before
Montgomery Street Station elevator temporarily out of service for improvement work
On Wednesday, September 9, 2009, BART will close the street elevator at Montgomery Street Station in order to demolish and replace the structure that houses the elevator entrance on the street level. Unfortunately, we must shut down the elevator for approximately three and one-half months (until December 2009
Wheels increases bus service to Dublin/Pleasanton Station
Wheels launched a series of route changes to improve access to BART and other key destinations in the Tri-Valley. Highest priority in the package of service changes is improved access to the Dublin/Pleasanton BART Station. BART riders can now connect directly to the station with ten new and modified routes
Get informed about Measure RR
BART’s $3.5 billion general obligation bond—Measure RR on the November ballot— would help rebuild and upgrade the backbone of the Bay Area transportation system. BART originally carried 100,000 people per week, but now serves roughly 440,000 riders per weekday, and ridership is expected to increase 75% by
Planning for a second Transbay Tube
BART is taking early steps to create a second Transbay Tube, although it’s too early to say if it will actually be a tube. For right now, BART and Capitol Corridor partners are calling it the second Transbay Rail Crossing. At tomorrow’s Board meeting, BART Directors will see that a companion to the existing
BPD seeks identity of hit-and-run suspect
The BART Police Department is asking for the public’s help to find a suspected hit-and-run driver who struck and seriously injured a BART rider in March at the Dublin/Pleasanton Station. The victim was walking from the station to his parked car when he was struck by the suspect vehicle that was exiting the
Construction Permits
Hundreds attend rare Board meeting and tour of Hayward Maintenance Complex
You would think the tour took place at Disneyland, judging solely by the enthusiasm from the crowd and the number of photographs taken. On Thursday, Oct. 27, the BART Board hosted – possibly for the first time ever – a Board meeting at BART’s Hayward Maintenance Complex (HMC), one of four facilities where
Board votes to spend surplus on riders, defers vote on fare rollback
Today the BART Board of Directors gave final approval to move forward with a plan to return millions of dollars in surplus revenues to riders in the form of cleaner train cars with fresh new seats, a delay to raising paratransit fares and the placement of real-time information displays at dozens of businesses