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The artists - Courtney Cerruti, Liz Hernandez, Carrie Lederer, and Kija Lucas - and curator Lisa Solomon in front of Lucas's Untitled (Samin’s Garden) at 19th St. Oakland Station. 

A new exhibition at 19th St. Oakland Station has been installed in the light boxes that replaced the original phone alcoves as part of the 2023 station upgrades.   Intended for rotating art displays, the glowing lightboxes featuring site specific reinterpretations of artworks by four Bay Area artists. Filled with florals, organic textures, and scenes inspired by the natural beauty of the Bay Area, the exhibition brings a burst of spring into the heart of downtown Oakland. 

Each of the works, created by Courtney Cerruti, Liz Hernandez, Carrie Lederer, and Kija Lucas, center botanicals, inviting riders to pause and experience a moment of inspiration as they travel through the station. The project was led by the BART Art Program that engaged curator Lisa Solomon, a local artist and educator who is actively involved with local Bay Area art and artists.  

“I think it’s really exciting that people get to see [art] in their daily lives. They don’t have to go to a museum, they don’t have to be familiar with artwork; they just have to look up while they’re commuting,” said Lisa Solomon. The project is “all about bringing the outside in.” 

“It was really important to show the gamut of what florals can do in art,” she said.  

 

 

 

 

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The artworks are located at four locations inside the station, all visible without entering the paid area: three on the eastside of the station near the entrance/station agent booths, and one on the westside of the station across from the mid-station agent booth.    They will be on display at least through fall 2026. The pieces complement three stairwell lightboxes (located between the lower and upper platforms) with permanent installations by artists Ron M. Saunders, Phillip Hua, and Lisa and Hailey Banks.  

“The role of the art program is to align with BART’s efforts to enhance station environments making people feel more welcome, and connecting with nearby communities,” said BART Art Program Manager Jennifer Easton. Other recent projects supported by the program include the writing contest BART Lines: 826 Valencia, Sound Tracks Music Festival, Fruitvale murals in partnership with The Unity Council, and the upcoming BART Police Headquarters, North Berkeley and Dublin Pleasanton station art enhancements currently in development.  

Fox and His Circle of Gold  

“I often focus on both macro and micro – minute things that people don’t really have a chance to notice, things that are hiding in plain sight. Also, I am focusing on this idea of transporting people across land, water, sky, on out into the cosmos. This idea of a journey is in the work. All the details, the movement, the textures, the patterns. And it dovetails nicely with this idea of people who are on a journey here in BART going somewhere.” 

—  Carrie Lederer, Oakland (carrielederer.com) 

Jacarandas al Viento (Jacarandas in the Wind) 

“There's such a big world of people who exist, who spend a lot of time here in the BART system, and who might not spend a lot of time in a museum or attending a show at the gallery. But just bringing art into the space that’s already familiar, that’s ordinary...I think it will help people break that normalcy of their commutes, but also it might make people think that there is room for art in their life. The natural world is not a backdrop for our lives, it’s actually an agent that feels and sees and participates in this, being alive.” 

—  Liz Hernandez, Oakland (liz-hernandez.com) 

Sunday Morning. Lake Merritt Gardens

“[The scene] is from the Gardens at Lake Merritt, which I used to spend a lot of time at. This happened on a Sunday that, like most Sundays, it would be a very rare treat for me to have an hour two to be out in the world painting because I have a small child. It was kind of like a miraculous series of events to let me be in a garden painting on a beautiful sunny day in Oakland with my watercolor palette and my sketchbook and a sun hat and nobody else. I really had the garden to myself because it was early, and I think that sort of sereness but also playfulness shows through in the work as well, and that’s my favorite way to paint.” 

—  Courtney Cerruti, Oakland (courtneycerruti.com) 

Untitled (Samin’s Garden) 

“For me plants have a lot of memories. They might remind you of your home or your grandmother or a person in your life. They might have a certain smell or taste memory to them. You bring them with you like other objects in your life. I love seeing my work in places where people will encounter art where they might not encounter it otherwise.” 

—  Kija Lucas, Berkeley (kijalucas.com) 

Installation of Next Generation Fare Gates is scheduled to begin September 20th at Antioch Station. The installation process is expected to take up to two weeks to complete. This work comes after the successful installation of Next Generation Fare Gates at Civic Center, Fruitvale, Richmond, and West Oakland stations.

During construction, there will be a barrier around the existing station gate array.  Riders will use two temporary accessible gates to enter and exit Antioch Station.  Both gates will be placed in front of the Station Agent Booth and will route riders through the existing service gate. Additionally, carpet will be installed immediately before the entrance to each fare gate, to make these two gates easier to locate for riders with visual impairments. The removal of the old gates and installation of the prototypes will not impact train service. 

All BART stations will have new fare gates by the end of 2025. You can learn more about BART’s Next Generation Fare Gate project here. Riders can provide feedback about the new gates at bart.gov/comments.

On Thursday, July 18, BART will begin replacing the existing fare gates on the concourse level of Civic Center Station with new Next Generation Fare Gates.

The work at Civic Center will happen at the array, or set of gates, closest to Seventh Street entrance on the north end of the concourse level of the station (Array 1 in the map). A temporary barrier will be installed to provide a safe workspace for the installation team as well as to protect riders from construction. Installing this new array is expected to take several weeks to complete. The station’s other two fare gate arrays (Array 2 and Array3) will remain open during the installation work. 

Once the new array is installed, BART will move forward with replacing all remaining old fare gates at Civic Center Station, one array at a time.  In April, crews successfully installed a new fare gate at the elevator entrance on the Civic Center Station platform.

Get more details on Next Generation Fare Gates at our project page. Riders can provide feedback about the new gates at bart.gov/comments.

Pittsburg Center Station recently had new Next Generation Fare Gates installed at the station, which required a slight shift in the positioning of the faregates compared to their previous location. As a result, the tactile guideway for blind and low vision riders also needs to be shifted.

In the interim, when entering the station, blind and low vision passengers should follow the carpet just north of the tactile guideway to lead you through the new accessible faregate. When exiting the station, follow the yellow directional bar tile pathway until you come across a carpet, at which point you will follow the carpet to the right, which leads directly through the wider, accessible faregate to exit the station.

 The latest work comes after BART has successfully installed Next Generation Fare Gates at 22 other stations across the system. All 50 BART stations will have new fare gates by the end of 2025. You can learn more about BART’s Next Generation Fare Gate project here.

BART crews will perform rail replacement work in the Transbay Tube over the weekend of October 18-19, requiring late night and morning single tracking and temporary service adjustments.

BART's Trip Planner has been updated to include the special schedule and help people plan their trips.

Saturday night, October 18:

Trains will single track through the Transbay Tube beginning around 12:30 am, with delays of 10-15 minutes expected. 

Sunday morning, October 19:

Single tracking will continue from start of service at about 8 am to 10:30 am. During this time, BART will operate a three-line, 30-minute schedule to all stations to mitigate delays. There will be no Red or Green Line service until 10:30 am which means some riders will need to take an Orange line train and transfer to complete their trip. Normal 20-minute, 5-line service will resume at 10:30 am on Sunday.

This article was posted on October 8, 2025.

On Tuesday, Feb. 3, Bay Area transit agencies and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission are encouraging riders to wear their favorite jersey on transit to celebrate transit’s role in getting fans to Super Bowl LX-related events. February 3 marks the first day of the Super Bowl Experience at Moscone Center and BAHC! Live San Francisco Fan Zone at Yerba Buena Gardens, both just a short walk from Powell St. Station. 

BART and other agencies will have staff handing out prizes to those spotted wearing a jersey during their ride, while supplies last. Any sports jersey counts!

Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara is hosting the championship game on Sunday, Feb. 8, and transit is a great way to get to the stadium and other events. BART will run longer trains and have extra staff and security to help get fans and families to events. Special announcements will be made onboard trains about where to exit and special directional signs will be posted inside stations to help new riders.

Find guidance on getting to Super Bowl LX events at bart.gov/superbowl.