SF News Day Around the Bay: BART Is Reopening Some Restrooms Closed Since 9/11 BART just announced a February reopening for restrooms at Powell Street and 19th Street stations, SF DA Chesa Boudin's dad is officially getting paroled, and Lake Tahoe's water level rose five inches in one day during Sunday's rain, recovering to its normal rim.
SF News BART Joins Other Transit Agencies In Requiring Employees to Be Vaccinated BART's board announced Thursday that the agency is instituting a vaccine mandate for all BART employees, saying they must be fully vaccinated by December 13 or risk losing their employment.
SF News Woman Dragged By Train to Her Death at Powell Street BART With Dog Leash Caught In Door A woman was dragged into the BART tracks and killed Monday afternoon in a tragic incident involving a dog leash that was wrapped around her waist.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Fatality Leads to BART Delays President Biden spoke about climate change at stops in Idaho and California today, BART was experiencing major delays after a fatality at Powell Street, and Newsom continues to look like he will remain governor after tomorrow.
SF News BART’s New Evasion-Proof (Yeah, Right) Fare Gates Begin to Appear in the Wild So-called “Next Generation Fare Gates” are plexiglass doors and are now installed at Rockridge station, so we’ll see if this latest invention makes a dent in the system’s $25 million-a-year fare evasion problem.
SF News Half-Off BART Fares Start Today, Lasting Through September Thinking that September 1st would be when it would be rolling out fuller, pre-pandemic levels of train service, BART announced a few months ago that it would be offering 50% off all fares for the month of September.
SF News East Bay Woman Sues After BART Police Forcibly Detain Her For Fare Evasion An East Bay woman has filed a civil rights lawsuit over a December 31, 2019 incident in which she was forcibly detained and bloodied by BART police officers over fare evasion at San Leandro's Bayfair Station.
SF News BART Is Back to Almost Pre-Pandemic Service Levels Starting Today Greater weekday frequency of BART trains, and normal late-night service are back starting today, August 2, though the trains are likely to still be pretty empty for another couple of months.
SF News Deplorable Teens Arrested After Trying to Steal SF Man's Backpack on BART, Pepper-Spraying Him Two teenage suspects were arrested Thursday after an attempted robbery aboard a BART train in which they allegedly pepper-sprayed the 61-year-old victim.
SF News Limited Late-Night BART Service Returns Thursday to Saturday Through July — Here Are the Details BART is reminding everyone of the announcement the agency made two weeks ago about its extended schedule, and clarifying how the restored but limited late-night train service is going to work the next three weekends.
SF News BART Has Deployed Its Goat Herd to Tame Excess Fire-Prone Vegetation In addition to its tracks and stations, BART has over 100 acres of land to manage — and that translates to a major headache in terms of mowing grass and cutting back overgrown vegetation when fire season hits.
SF News BART is Bringing Back Late-Night Service On August 2! Four weeks earlier than scheduled, BART trains will roll 'til midnight starting August 2, and a few “limited” weekend routes will run 'til 11:30 p.m. starting in just two weeks.
SF News BART Expected to Have Free WiFi at All Stations by 2024 Earlier this year, SFMTA installed wireless routers and cellular antennas inside the Muni Metro tunnels. Now, we can also expect all 50 BART stations to have free (and readily accessible) WiFi hotspots in as little as three years.
SF News BART Ramping Up Service Monday for Antioch, Berryessa, and Richmond Trains Though trains will still stop at 9 p.m., and Sunday trains will remain rare, most BART lines will see far more trains on their tracks, starting this Monday.
SF News BART Ridership Hit a New Pandemic High Thursday as More People Are Moving Around Ridership on BART steadily climbed this week, as the agency's communications team announced Friday on Twitter, hitting a new high Thursday not seen since the beginning of the pandemic.
SF News You Can Now Pay Your Muni and BART Fares By Waving Your Apple Watch or iPhone Over a Clipper Reader At last, a couple years behind other cities, San Francisco now has added Apple Wallet and Apple Watch paying capability on mass transit, with Android capability on the way soon.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: BART May Resume Normal-ish Hours In September The Sonoma County Sheriff is now investigating sexual assault accusations against the mayor of Windsor, Facebook is making its Menlo Park headquarters available as a vaccine site, and BART may resume more regular hours starting in September.
SF News BART Debuts Touchless 'Short Story Dispensers' as Part of One Year Pilot Program Need a break from mindlessly scrolling through Twitter while commuting on BART? Grab a piece of flash fiction from any one of the rapid transit agency’s newly installed "Short Story Dispensers" — free of charge.
SF News Hugely Inconvenient BART-Caltrain Transfer at Millbrae Just Became Less Inconvenient The lumbering up a set of stairs and across the concourse and down another set of stairs to transfer between BART and Caltrain is no longer necessary, thanks to a new modification.
SF Politics $141 Million In BART Funding for San Jose Extension Gets Dropped From Stimulus Bill Days after two Republican congressmen from California took potshots at it, a $141 million federal gift to BART has been dropped from the $1.9 trillion stimulus package.
SF Politics Devin Nunes Misrepresents BART Funding During CPAC Speech as 'Tunnel From Silicon Valley to San Francisco' We're back to the Republicans' favorite game of using "San Francisco" as a stand-in for everything detestable about liberals.
SF News Halleloo: BART and Muni Riders Will Soon Be Able to Pay Fares With Mobile Phones Two years behind New York's transit system — a.k.a. right on schedule — Clipper cards are going mobile, enabling riders to stop fumbling with wallets at BART and Muni stations and pay using Apple Pay or Google Pay on their mobile phones.
SF News Second Transbay Tube Takes Another Step Toward Reality, With a Goal of Completion in 2040 Wednesday marked the unveiling of a new multiyear planning process by BART and regional rail providers, a key component of which will be a second Bay crossing for BART between San Francisco and Oakland.
SF News Mittened Bernie Sanders Meme'd on BART, Cable Car The meme of Bernie Sanders sitting slouched, masked, and wearing some large and cozy mittens while waiting for Joe Biden to be inaugurated on Wednesday spread fast and wide. And now there are some Bay Area editions.
SF News Major BART Delays Hit East Bay as Power Line Gets Knocked Onto Tracks, Service Now Back This afternoon was not a good time to take BART in the East Bay, as service was disrupted when a semi truck knocked a power line onto the tracks.
