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September's skyrocketing ridership: 3 weekdays of 400,000-plus riders

Riders drawn by BART’s 95% or better on time performance standard are flocking to the transit system in September, pushing weekday ridership past the 400,000-plus milestone for the third time this month, including more than 415,000 trips Monday, September 10. “Record ridership is great for the Bay Area. It

Proof of payment required starting in 2018

Chinese (在中文) Spanish (En Español) Starting in 2018, BART will require proof of payment inside the paid area of stations and on-board trains. Any person inside the paid area of BART must be prepared to show a magnetic stripe ticket or Clipper card with valid fare. The BART Board of Directors passed the proof

Security grille replacement Bay Fair Station Dec. 2014

Starting the first week of December, 2014 we will remove and replace the security grilles at the entrance to Bay Fair station. The replacement work will be done on one entrance at a time. The entrance will be closed for approximately two weeks while the work is completed. We realize that this will be

Escalator and canopy program update

The BART Board’s Operations, Safety, and Workforce Committee today heard an update (presentation linked to below) on plans to renovate or replace escalators at some of the system’s busiest stations as well as install protective canopies in downtown San Francisco. The plan represents the first major overhaul

Rockridge Tree Replacement

In 2017, BART conducted a Rockridge Station Hazard Tree Assessment by Certified Arborists of the International Society of Arboriculture. The Arborist report recommends BART remove hazard-trees adjacent to the parking lots of the station to maintain public safety. The identified hazards include 16 red ironbark

Normal Red Line service now restored with up to 10-car trains

5/6/22 Update Longer trains are once again running on the Red (Richmond to Millbrae + SFO) and Orange (Richmond to Berryessa) lines following ongoing cable replacement work between the Richmond and El Cerrito del Norte stations. In early March, BART experienced a cable fault that forced us to operate train