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Grace Crunican is selected as BART's new General Manager
Grace Crunican Transportation professional Grace Crunican is taking over as the new BART General Manager. Crunican (prounounced: Krun-i-can) was appointed today, Wednesday, August 31, 2011, at a Special Board meeting, ending a nationwide search for the next General Manager of the Bay Area’s premiere public
BART Board passes interim budget with $24M deficit
Budget preserves train service and safety levels, establishes parking fees, eliminates positions and freezes top managers' salaries Today BART's Board of Directors passed the Fiscal Year 2006 (FY06) Interim Operating Budget, which for the fourth year in a row, deals with the effects of a struggling economy
Best scoring bid to build BART's Fleet of the Future
BID COMPARISON Bidder PriceOffer Combined Score Bombardier (Canada) $1,543,192,904 79.70 Alstom(France) $1,727,025,189 73.22 Rotem(South Korea) $2,791,394,850 48.47 Technical Score + Price Score = Combined Score. Price offer is for a total of 775 cars. BART staff is recommending that the Fleet of the Future
BART launches data-driven passenger load charts
As more riders return to BART to avoid traffic, BART is launching weekly train car loading charts to provide a snapshot of what riders can expect on-board trains during the COVID-19 pandemic. The commitment to share this data is part of BART’s 15-Step Welcome Back Plan as the region reopens. The schedule
Reserved parking and waitlists transitioning to official BART app
BART is transitioning its monthly, single day and airport/long term-reserved parking and waitlists systemwide to the official BART app to give riders a more modern and convenient way to pay. Reserved parking has previously been known as permit parking at BART, but with this transition to the official app, a
Violent and property crime plummet on BART
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.
Regular weekday BART schedule on Halloween; no extended hours
Halloween partiers, take note: BART will run regular weekday service hours on Halloween night -- Friday, Oct. 31 -- with no extended hours. Please plan your Halloween travel early and check BART schedules for the last train leaving your station. Printed schedules are available at all stations, or use the BART
BART Board elects Tom Blalock Board President
District #6 Director Tom Blalock will serve as BART Board President for the third time in his 20-year career as a BART Director. Members of the Board elected Blalock today to serve as Board president until December 2015. Blalock is dedicated to expand BART south. The completion of the Warm Springs Extension
One man’s fight to make BART accessible for all
07.29.22 “There is a special personal pride in being the first handicapped person in a wheelchair to use a subway train, and to represent all handicapped travelers who will use the BART system in years to come. I’ll never forget that sense of freedom I experienced as I boarded the BART train.” – Harold
Take the BART parking policy survey by 12/16
BART is considering changes to its parking policy, including parking rates and hours. Tell us what you think by taking the survey online now through December 16 at https://bart.gov/parkingsurvey. You can enter a drawing to win a $130 Clipper card at the end of the survey to thank you for your time. Changes