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BART to OAK
2014: BART to OAK begins service using a unique cable-hauled car. This system replaces the “AirBART” buses that served OAK since 1977.
BART to Antioch
2018: BART begins service to Pittsburg Center and Antioch on May 26. The new cars use biodiesel and run on standard gauge track.
BART GM appoints interim BART Police Chief
Former Berkeley Police Chief takes interim role while agency searches for permanent Chief BART General Manager Dorothy Dugger announced that she will appoint a former Berkeley police chief to serve as the BART Police Department's interim chief while the agency conducts a nationwide search to permanently
BART to Antioch: East Contra Costa BART Extension
The BART to Antioch extension began carrying riders in East Contra Costa County on Saturday, May 26, 2018. To celebrate, BART held a community ribbon-cutting celebration on Friday, May 25, 2018 at the new Antioch Station featuring free preview train rides and local entertainment. The new service between the
BART runs longer trains for Try BART Week
Friday is the final day of the "Try BART Week" promotion and once again BART will run longer trains to accommodate the extra customers expected to be giving BART a try. A "word of the day" is being displayed each day in BART stations on the platform digital destination signs, and riders can text it in for a
BART Headquarters
Welcome to BART Headquarters (BHQ), a state-of-the-art building featuring several great amenities in Uptown Oakland, home base for many of our employees. Here, you’ll join a dynamic workforce that’s inspired to keep the Bay Area moving. Ideal Location BHQ is located three blocks from the 19th Street BART
The Machines of BART
Text by Melissa Jordan, BART | Illustrations by Tony Randazzo, AA Reps
BART Police
Because train service runs through multiple jurisdictions, we’ve had our own police department since 1972.
50 years of BART: Everything found in BART’s 30-year-old time capsule
Thirty years ago, on BART’s twentieth anniversary, we buried a time capsule deep in the ground at Lake Merritt Station and Plaza in Oakland.
Until recently, only BART employees from three decades ago knew what lay inside. But, on the occasion of our 50th anniversary, BART recently pulled the time capsule from the earth and peered inside.
The silver metal container stands about two-feet-high. When we unburied it, we discovered inside 60 items. The contents include objects acquired from the inception of BART onwards, with plenty of 20th anniversary merch. There was dirt from the Market St. Subway groundbreaking in 1967. There was a survey marker from BART’s construction. And, befitting the 90s era, a cassette, VHS, and magnetic tape containing source code for BART’s old Computer Automatic Block System.
Some train equipment made it in the capsule, wedged among t-shirts and labor agreements, business cards and employee signatures. Among the equipment was a circuit board, a thyristor that controls motor current, and Automatic Fare Collection equipment that made the fare gates and ticket machines work.
In all, the time capsule reminds us of not just BART’s history, but the history of the Bay Area at-large. It transports us back in time – to an age of Tamagotchi and Nirvana – and helps us look toward the future. BART is, after all, burying a time capsule to be opened in 25 years, on our 75th anniversary. On Saturday, Sept. 10, public officials took to the stage at Lake Merritt Station and Plaza to deposit items in this new time capsule. The additions included a Clipper card, Fleet of the Future socks, a Not One More Girl poster, a BART 50th t-shirt, a resolution from 1992, a personal handstrap, a 2022 BART Pride sticker, a BART pandemic mask, some of the best tweets from the BART Twitter account, and a 50th anniversary pin given to employees for the occasion.
Look through the above slideshow for some highlights from the 1992 time capsule and click here for a full catalogue of the items held within.