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BART expands wireless access to Transbay Tube
BART customers who subscribe to the major mobile phone companies can now use their mobile phones and wireless hotspot devices to make calls or surf the web as they go under the bay between San Francisco and Oakland. Over the weekend Sprint, Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile turned on their networks inside the
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
Alert BART employee foils credit card thief
The swift actions of a BART employee last week lead to the arrest of a credit card thief who had two outstanding warrants for his arrest. On August 20, 2012, a BART employee at Lafayette Station was helping a customer trying to purchase a BART ticket when she noticed the man was attempting to use a credit
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
BART Board green lights Lake Merritt TOD
The BART Board of Directors took a major step today toward redeveloping the Lake Merritt Station area and reconnecting it to Oakland Chinatown and surrounding neighborhoods through development of a transit-friendly hub of affordable housing, office and retail buildings. The Board voted to authorize BART staff
BART's new budget: funding for the future
BART’s Fiscal Year 2013 budget uses operating dollars to fund important capital projects for the future, including the next generation of rail cars. The BART Board of Directors voted today, eight to one, to adopt the budget, which will go into effect July 1, 2012. BART will use a total of $45 million in
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Know your commute plan during a BART strike
BART's unions called for a strike beginning Friday, October 18th. Whether you ride BART, use other public transit services or drive, everyone needs to consider the alternatives and plan their commute. For a summary of all transit options, carpool rideshare locations and traffic conditions visit http://alert
BART's new train cars now in service
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
STATEMENT: By BART Board President James Fang
Regardless of the outcome of the criminal trial, BART has always taken responsibility as a civil matter for the terrible tragedy that occurred on the platform of the Fruitvale BART Station on the morning of January 1, 2009. A young man lost his life because of the actions of a former BART police officer. It