Arts & Entertainment Last Week, This Week: Hunter Pence to Lead Guinness World Record Attempt A round-up of last week's highlights: BART’s meltdown, SFPD overtime, and a flipped Lamborghini. Plus, the week ahead: SFJazz jam session; a conversation with Rebecca Solnit; and Hunter Pence leading a Guinness Record attempt.
SF News BART Says Morning Meltdown Was Due to Isolated Device Malfunction, No Further Problems Anticipated BART officials have been quick to reassure the public that Friday morning's complete and total shutdown of the system, which lasted for five hours, was due to a minor, isolated problem that has been addressed.
SF News Update: Limited BART Service Returns After Rush Hour Meltdown Due to Computer Issue BART was forced to close all 50 stations in the system Friday morning around 4:30 am due to an issue that was affecting service in the entire system.
SF News Sunday Links: Jeffries, Booker Hold Sit-In At Capitol To Protest GOP Budget Plan A Tenderloin resident was critically injured and a dog was killed during a small apartment fire on Friday; SF State has completed a new state-funded student affordable housing complex; and Hakeem Jeffries and Cory Booker held a sit-in protest Sunday on the Capitol steps.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Bibliophiles Celebrate Indie Bookstore Day Saturday As Amazon Holds Overlapping Sale A former San Bruno elementary school teacher was sentenced to 25 years in prison for molesting four of his students; Cornell removed Kehlani from its Slope Day lineup due to her pro-Palestine views; and Amazon is holding a major sale the same time as Independent Bookstore Day.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: BART Considers Selling Off East Bay Land The BART board is set to begin looking at selling off some 235 acres of unused land it owns in the East Bay; Meta is closing some offices in Fremont; and a Tesla charging station had all of its charging cables cut.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Red Flags Abound As Fyre Fest 2 ‘Changes Locations,’ Authorities Say No Paperwork Was Ever Filed Organizers say Fyre Fest 2 is still happening in a couple months, even though Mexican authorities said no paperwork had been filed; Musk’s xAI has acquired X, officially “intertwining” the two; and Sex Pistols tickets go on sale April 4.
SF News Amidst 'Fiscal Cliff’ Panic, Scott Wiener Introduces BART and Muni Funding Package As fears set in that BART trains would run just once an hour and Muni might cut frequency by 50%, state Senator Scott Wiener is proposing a funding package to save them, but it involves voters approving a new sales tax.
SF News Saturday Links: 30,000 Attend AOC and Bernie Sanders’s 'Fight the Oligarchy' Visit In Denver Over 30,000 people attended Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders’s joint tour stop in Denver; two unions representing 60,000 University of California employees are poised to begin striking on April 1; and Bach on BART is in full swing.
SF News BART Fare Evasion Way Down With the New Gates, or at Least That’s What BART Claims BART is touting that fare evasion may have dropped by one third since they started putting in those so-called “evasion-proof” fare gates, though this is just based on some informal poll they did where they asked riders if they saw anyone hopping the gates.
SF News Saturday Links: Tesla Driver Arrested For DUI After Crashing Into Muni Train, Destroying Transit Stop A Tesla driver who crashed into a Muni train was arrested under suspicion of driving while intoxicated; helicopters have been banned from Washington DC airport; and a Walnut Creek nine-year-old is the youngest person to complete a BART speedrun.
SF News Someone Was Hit and Killed on the Tracks at El Cerrito BART Station Tuesday Morning BART had to suspend service between North Berkeley and Richmond for nearly three hours Tuesday morning, and we’re now learning that this was because someone wandered onto the tracks and was struck and killed by an oncoming train.
SF News Transit Nut Rides From SF to LA Only on Public Transportation, It Costs Him Just $61 (But Takes Two Whole Days) An ambitious transit enthusiast just rode all the way from San Francisco (actually Oakland) to Los Angeles, a trek that cost a mere $61, but took two full days to pull off, and required an overnight hotel stay.
SF News Person Struck By BART Train at Civic Center Causes Major Delays A major medical emergency on the BART tracks at Civic Center Station Tuesday morning led to trains single-tracking through the station and significant systemwide delays.
Arts & Entertainment Local Musicians: Bring Joy, Sign Up To Play Some Bach On BART Local musicians who like Bach, sign up for next month's annual Bach in the Subways event. We could all use a pick-me-up, but be sure to get your permit!
Arts & Entertainment Two Transit Nerds Embark on Nine-County Odyssey to Ride All 24 Clipper Card Transit Services In 24 Hours These two youngsters with a big appetite for Bay Area public transit took on the task of seeing if they could ride all 24 Clipper Card-using transit agencies within a 24-hour period, and actually pulled it off by a hair.
SF News BART Says 'Fiscal Cliff' Is Coming Next Year, and They Obviously Won't See More Federal Funding A day after BART was touting rising ridership numbers and a drop in crime, the transit agency is warning the public that its much discussed "fiscal cliff" is set to arrive in 2026, absent new funding sources.
SF News Family of Woman Shoved In Front of BART Train Sues BART The family of Corazon Dandan has filed suit against the BART agency for wrongful death, alleging that the transit system was aware of the threat posed by the man accused of shoving Dandan in front of a moving train last July.
Arts & Entertainment Gaggle of SantaCon Santas Manages to Conquer BART’s Evasion-Proof Gates With Mass Fare Evasion A battalion of Santas successfully cheated BART’s new evasion-proof fare gates during this weekend’s SantaCon festivities, and a TikTok video capturing their gate-hopping exploits is going viral.
SF News An Oakland BART Station Might Be Renamed, If Someone Pays $750k A recent BART Board of Directors meeting saw the unanimous approval of a motion to rechristen the station as the Oakland Chinatown Station, provided a third-party fronts the capital required to do so.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Systemwide BART Delays Caused By Stalled Train A disabled BART train in Oakland was causing systemwide delays this morning; Marc Benioff tries to play off his recent Trump support; and jurors in the Nima Momeni trial, for the murder of Cash App founder Bob Lee, resume deliberations.
SF News BART Cleared Trains Out of Transbay Tube, Underground Tunnels In SF Ahead of Potential Tsunami BART train service through the Transbay Tube was briefly halted and the agency said it was clearing all trains out of underground tunnels in San Francisco and on the Peninsula ahead of a potential tsunami. But the warning was lifted, and service is slowly resuming.
SF News Still Facing Major Budget Deficit, BART Raises Fares 5.5% Starting In January BART announced a fare hike starting January 1 which will raise the average train fare about 25 cents, in order to partly address looming budget deficits in the coming fiscal years.
SF News DA Jenkins Won’t Charge Suspect in Last Month’s Market Street Stabbing A mid-November fatal stabbing on Market Street outside the Embarcadero BART station will not be charged as a murder, as DA Brooke Jenkins says her office cannot prove the suspect wasn’t acting in self-defense.
SF News BART Police Shoot Female Suspect In Officer-Involved Shooting In Union City A female suspect was shot and injured by BART police Monday night and her condition is unknown, and the BART Police Department has so far released just a few details about what happened.
