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Security grille replacement, Downtown Berkeley Station Dec. - Jan.

Starting the first week of December, 2014 and continuing until the second week in January, 2015 we will remove and replace the security grilles at the entrance to the Downtown Berkeley station. The replacement work will be done on two entrances at a time (at opposite ends of the station). The entrances will

Every "Tiny Ticket" counts

It's Tiny Tickets time again! BART and the East Bay Community Foundation are sponsoring a contest to make this the most exciting and productive Tiny Tickets effort yet. Once again, local nonprofits will be asking you to search high and low for all those low value BART tickets taking up space in your purses

Fleet of the Future cars to be assembled in the Bay Area

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On June 14, 2019 Bombardier Transportation announced it is opening a rail car assembly site in Pittsburg, California to assemble BART’s Fleet of the Future rail cars. This work, which is currently taking place in upstate New York, will be transferred to the Bay Area over the coming months. The new facility is

Powell Street Station modernization continues through Sept. 2012

BART is continuing asbestos removal work within the Powell Street BART Station. BART has been removing existing fireproofing material that was applied to the steel beams installed when the station was built nearly 40 years ago. The common fireproofing material from that time contains traces of asbestos. BART

Families can “Trunk or Treat” at Fruitvale and Richmond stations 10/28

Children who visit Fruitvale and Richmond stations from 5 pm - 7 pm on Friday, October 28, 2016, will get a special treat from BART’s Police Department. Officers will host BART’s first Halloween “Trunk or Treat” event, a safer alternative to the house-to-house Halloween trick-or-treating tradition. Candy

Oakland Airport Connector project advocates vow to work with FTA

Updated January 21, 2010, with .pdf of letter from BART to FTA BART has received the Federal Transit Administration’s (FTA) letter asking for further analysis of the Oakland Airport Connector project’s impact on minority communities under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Over the past decade, BART

Junior engineer program builds pipeline of skilled workers to serve public

By MELISSA JORDANBART Senior Web Producer With 47% of current employees at retirement age, BART needs an influx of engineers as surely as it needs a new fleet to replace its oldest-in-the-nation train cars. Fortunately for BART riders and the Bay Area as a whole, a program is underway to recruit and retain