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BART is the best for your Bay Area commute

With high gas prices, rising bridge tolls and unpredictable traffic jams making Bay Area commutes more hectic every day, BART continues to be your best option for getting to work. Commuters can use http://www.bart.gov/, the best online resource for official BART information, for help getting to work on time

Ride BART to your holiday shopping destinations

Are you braving the crow ds on Bl ack Friday? Headed to San Francisco to do holiday shopping? Or are the laid-back suburbs more your scene? Wherever you do your holiday shopping, take BART and avoid hectic holiday traffic. Find the most festive holiday shopping destinations at bart.gov/holidays, and while you

BART's new train cars now in service

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BART’s new Fleet of the Future train is here. The very first customers to ride the new train cars boarded the train at MacArthur Station this morning as it made its inaugural passenger run. The new cars feature a wide spectrum of improvements over BART’s legacy fleet, currently the oldest fleet in the nation

BART to develop innovative trackside safety technology

The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) has awarded to BART a $5 million grant to develop a new technology to protect trackside workers. The concept is to develop a system that goes far beyond existing trackside alarm technology – a device that would automatically stop an approaching train. “We have high

Everything found in BART’s 30-year-old time capsule

The plaque for the 1992 time capsule., 1992 Time Capsule.jpeg, An assortment of the items found in the capsule., R65_4011.JPG, Dirt from the Market Street Subway groundbreaking, 1967., R65_4013.JPG, A circuit board from the Operations Control Center., R65_4016.JPG, A coaster from the 1991 groundbreaking of Dublin/Pleasanton and West Pittsburg stations., R65_4015.JPG, A cassette tape featuring a KCBS special on BART for its 20th anniversary, R65_4017.JPG, An Automatic Train Control component., R65_4020.JPG, Source code for the Computer Automatic Block System., R65_4024.JPG, A 20th anniversary t-shirt., R65_4026.JPG, A VHS Tape documenting the 1991 BART extension., R65_4027.JPG, A survey marker from BART’s construction., R65_4029.JPG
Thirty years ago, on BART’s twentieth anniversary, we buried a time capsule deep in the ground at Lake Merritt Station and Plaza in Oakland.Until rece

BART 2022 pride shirt now available

Our 2022 pride shirt is now available in our stores, and for the first time ever, virtually on select platforms. The physical shirt is now available on Rail Goods, and can also be purchased from our Customer Service Center at Lake Merritt (Monday-Friday 8:30am-4:45pm). Our pride shirt is also available as an

BART train techs earn another trophy

It’s official: BART’s train car maintainers are the best in nation – wait – make that the best in North America. BART’s team of train car maintainers took the trophy in Montreal this weekend during the transit industry’s version of the NBA Finals: the International Rail Rodeo. BART's team, Ted Christian, Dan

BART expands service for event-filled weekend

BART will have long trains and more of them all weekend long to help riders get to the Oakland A's playoff games, the Oakland Raiders game, the Cal football game, the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival and anywhere else. Riders are encouraged to plan ahead by loading value to their Clipper card early or

BART Police reunite mother with missing daughter

Late this evening BART Police were able to put an end to a mother's worst nightmare when they found her missing child. 11 year-old Aquellezra Gabriel was last heard from around 6:00 pm when she was on the 22 Muni bus headed to City College. “Her mother told investigators that her daughter's usual route was to

300 BART cars get new seats

Board Awards $2.7 Million Contract to Belmont Company; nearly half of BART's fleet of 669 rail cars will be getting a fresher, cleaner look The BART Board of Directors unanimously approved a $2.7 million contract that will help the agency nearly double its efforts to replace worn out seats on up to 300 cars