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Ride transit, attend free events, win prizes, and connect with the community 

This September marks the Bay Area’s tenth annual Transit Month. There are many opportunities to get on BART and celebrate the public transportation that keeps the Bay Area moving.  

Hosted by San Francisco Transit Riders and Seamless Bay Area with support from local agencies, Transit Month toasts the many trains, buses, and ferries that connect the region and uplift its communities, economies, and cultures.  

Transit Month is a great opportunity to explore the places transit can take you and to connect with local agencies and riders. The month is hallmarked by dozens of free events as well as a monthlong Ride Contest that invites participants to track their transit trips to win prizes, earn badges, and vie for top leaderboard positions. Last year, riders logged some 3,000 transit trips across every Bay Area agency. Sign up for the Ride Contest at  ridecontest.com and start logging trips September 1.  

BART’s hallmark event this year will be the Let’s Glow! BART Anime Festival on Saturday, September 6. Learn more about the celebration of art, anime, transit, and music here and RSVP (optional) at bartletsglow.eventbrite.com. 

And be sure to mark your calendars for All Aboard Bay Area Transit Day on Tuesday, September 23, when we encourage the region to ride transit. BART staff will be riding trains and handing out stickers and surprising riders wearing the stickers with fun BART prizes.  

Lastly, a virtual bonus: On the first day of Transit Month, September 1, BART will release the first of 12 YouTube videos of sped-up footage of the entire BART system – one line and one direction at a time. We’re calling it the BART Cab Cam, and every Monday for three months we’ll unveil a new video. Only Train Operators get to experience these views! Subscribe to BART’s YouTube channel to be alerted when a new video is posted.  

Below, we’ve highlighted some of the month’s BART-centric events. Find the full event schedule at sftransitriders.org/transitmonth. Some programming is virtual.  

Selection of Upcoming Transit Month Events 

September 29 - October 5 -- National Week Without Driving

Past Events

September 1 - Fairyland’s Big Birthday Party Parade from 19th St. Station 

September 1 - September 7, all day - Dress to Impress on Transit Week

September 4, 9am to 10am, SF City Hall (Civic Center) - Transit Month Kickoff Rally

September 4, 5:30pm to 7pm, SPUR Urban Center (Montgomery) - Transit Trivia Night

September 6, 4:30pm to 8pm, Warm Springs/South Fremont  – Let's Glow! BART Anime Festival  

September 6, 1pm to 5pm, Berryessa and Richmond – Books and BART Takeover with Silent Book Club Oakland  

September 9, 6pm to 9pm, Castro Valley - Learn to Juggle at Castro Valley BART

September 12, 7:30pm to 11pm, 12th St. - East Bay Bike Party

September 14, 10am to 4pm, Millbrae – 53rd Anniversary BART Speedrun + Trivia 

September 20, 9am to 3pm, Embarcadero – Peaks and Alleys: A BART to BART Walk 

September 21, 11:15am, Hayward Station - Sunday in the Park Without Having to Park

September 23, all day – All Aboard Bay Area Transit Day 

September 24, 3pm to 6pm, Salesforce Transit Center (Embarcadero) – Pop-up Transit Art Fair 

September 26, 3pm to 6:30pm, 19th St./Oakland – All Aboard with Transit CEOs Ride-Along and Happy Hour, including BART GM Bob Powers 

September 28, 10am to 3pm, MacArthur – Bay Bridge Trail Anniversary Ride  

September 28, 10am to 6pm, Embarcadero – YPT SF Bay Area: Transit Month Amazing Race 

Newly released data shows crime has dropped substantially on BART through the first seven months of this year. The number of violent crimes reported on BART declined from 203 for the first seven months of 2024 to 130 incidents this year. Property crimes also fell from 1,091 for the first seven months of 2024 to 547 this year. All the latest crime numbers can be found in the July Chief’s Report.

The decrease in crime has come as BART PD has remained focused on maintaining a highly visible safety presence in the system. At the same time BART has accelerated the installation of Next Generation Fare Gates. Now 48 of BART’s 50 stations have new high-tech gates, which are proving to be a strong deterrent against fare evasion and other unwanted behavior. BART is well on track to meet its goal to have Next Generation Fare Gates at all stations by the end of this year. Maintaining a visible safety presence and installing new gates are both key components of BART’s Safe and Clean Plan to put the everyday concerns of riders first.

Other highlights from the Chief’s Report:

*Robberies plummeted from 126 for the first seven months of 2024 to 37 this year.

*Only one cellphone robbery was reported for the entire system in July. That follows zero cellphone robberies in June.

*Auto burglaries fell from 449 last year to 162 in 2025.

BART PD’s highly visible safety presence is making it possible for officers to get to incidents more quickly. The average emergency response time for July was 4 minutes, 21 seconds. That’s well below BART PD’s goal of five minutes and one of the fastest response times for any law enforcement agency in the Bay Area.