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HOST: Welcome to the official BART podcast, “Hidden Tracks: Stories from BART.” I'm Chris Filippi, your host for this episode and I'm joined by John Allen, who is a Transit Vehicle Mechanic at BART’s Hayward Maintenance Complex. John is BART's answer to MacGyver. In his time at BART, he's become an expert at

The Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in Golden Gate Park is one of the Bay Area's early autumn treasures. Get there on transit and enjoy some of the finest music from bluegrass and beyond the weekend of Oct. 3-5 -- and it's all free. The bigger-name headliners include Robert Plant and Alison Krauss

UPDATE: Tuesday, June 9 The next scheduled closure: All day Saturday, June 13. This will be the last closure for the work between Fruitvale and Coliseum stations. On Saturday, June 13, there will be no Green Line service. Which means: unlike typical Saturdays, customers proceeding north from Fremont will have

Beginning Saturday April 4, 2009, our crews will be replacing ties on the track between Pleasant Hill and Concord stations. While we work, you may experience delays in both directions between the Lafayette and Pittsburg/Bay Point stations. The delays may be up to 10 to 15 minutes on Saturdays and Sundays

The platform-level elevator at the 7th & Market Street end of Civic Center Station remains out of service for emergency repairs. Originally BART was anticipating the work to be complete on April 27, 2016 but the elevator remains out of service while staff works to replace a faulty brake coil. Work that has

On Sunday, July 2, 2017, we will be single-tracking trains through the area between Balboa Park and Daly City stations in order to allow our maintenance personnel to replace the rail in the curve between the two stations. This will cause 10-15 minute delays. Trains from Dublin/Pleasanton will be turned back

The elevator has returned to service. The platform-level elevator at Civic Center Station was taken out of service today due to damage from suspected vandalism. We have ordered replacement parts and will work as quickly as possible to return the elevator to service. To check if an elevator is in service

On Sunday June 2, 16, and 23, we will have delays on the Antioch/SFO-Millbrae(Yellow) line in San Francisco due to single-tracking. Between 8am and 6:30pm, expect delays of between 15-20 minutes. From 6:30pm to 8pm, expect delays of 20-30 minutes as we move maintenance vehicles out of the trackway. These

On Presidents Day, Monday, February 17, 2020 we will be running a Saturday schedule with longer trains on the Green (Warm Springs/Daly City), Orange (Richmond/Warm Springs), and Red (Richmond/Daly City) lines for the entire day There will be five additional Red Line trips every twenty minutes from Richmond to

BART is in the middle of a multi-year project to retrofit the Transbay Tube. The retrofit will be done in small sections during a work window of 9:30 pm (Sunday-Thursday) until 5:00 am (Monday-Friday). Passenger trains will need to single track through the tube during this work, resulting in 24-minute