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Section of West Oakland parking lot closing for 9 months
On Friday, March 28, 2014 BART will begin electrical improvements for the West Oakland Electrical Substation in the BART parking lot located on the southwest corner of 7th Street and Chester Street. The project will renovate the electrical substation by replacing most of the existing equipment from the 1970’s
New seats now in all trains
Times change. Turns out BART seats do too. We’ve now changed every seat on every train car –all 669 of them- replacing the wool material with easy-to-clean vinyl. The last of the wool seats followed the wooly mammoth into extinction at exactly 10:50 a.m. on December 30, 2014. BART utility workers yanked out
Roof work ongoing at Pleasant Hill Station
BART will begin re-roofing the platform canopies at the Pleasant Hill BART Station on Thursday, October 6, 2005. The work will take place Monday through Friday, from 9 p.m. to 4 a.m. The work will take about six weeks to complete. Directional signs will be posted and BART will keep customers informed of any
Time running out and still no progress on cost savings proposals at negotiating table
With two weeks left before the June 30 contract deadline, BART unions have yet to agree to a single major cost saving proposal designed to help close a $250 million, four-year deficit and secure a new labor contract that will protect jobs and worker salaries. "The public and our ridership want and expect us
Earthquake safety work begins at South Hayward Station
As part of our systemwide Earthquake Safety Program, we will begin strengthening structures at the South Hayward Station to better withstand future earthquakes. Beginning late May, 2014, work areas will be fenced in and you may see large equipment accessing the site such as dump trucks, backhoes and lifts
Community seat labs finish up; next step will be public outreach on renderings
Past is prologue? Unveiling of first BART car, 1965. The public will get a look at renderings for the next generation of BART trains as the Fleet of the Future project proceeds. Photo: Corbis By MELISSA JORDAN BART Senior Web Producer The seat labs are over and the results are in: Some 2,200 Bay Area
19th Street Station entrance closed 9/15
From Monday, September 15, through approximately Monday, December 22, 2014, the 19th Street Station entrance at the Northeast corner of 20th Street and Broadway will be closed. We are installing a canopy over the station entrance as added protection from weather for customers, employees and the escalators
Ridership record to SFO set over Thanksgiving holiday
BART passengers set a ridership record to the San Francisco International (SFO) Station during the Thanksgiving holiday travel period. Beginning with the Wednesday before Thanksgiving through and including the Monday afterward, 62,600 customers went in and out of the SFO Station. That’s a 10% jump over the
Unions have to move to make real progress at bargaining table
Labor negotiations are scheduled for next week between BART and its two largest unions, ATU 1555 and SEIU 1021, but not much productivity is expected unless union leadership makes a significant move to bring down the cost of their financially unsustainable contract proposal. The unions have yet to move below