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.
Arts & Entertainment Decommissioned BART Train Cars Could Become Restaurants, Art Pieces, and More BART is seeking proposals for the creative reuse of old BART train cars as they continue to be taken out of service. The agency suggests that organizations or entrepreneurs may want the old cars to turn them into exhibits, art cars, sculptures, restaurant spaces, and more.
SF News Once Again, BART's Twitter Persona Gets Real, But This Time About Farts It's a been a minute since we had the pleasure of BART's Twitter account coming alive with some honest and/or sassy commentary. But whoever's in charge over there this summer, kudos.
SF News Woman Sets Her Hair On Fire On BART Train In East Bay, Video Lands On TikTok An upsetting situation which, for lack of better information, we're going to chalk up to possible mental illness or intoxication and an accident involving an open flame, unfolded on a BART train on Tuesday afternoon and was posted to TikTok. Welcome to July, 2020!
SF News SFO BART Station Closed Due to 'Police Matter,' Reopened Wednesday Morning No trains were going in or out of BART's SFO Station for about an hour Wednesday morning due to an unspecified "police matter" that has yet to be made public.
SF News Suspect Wearing 'Scream' Mask Arrested In SF Following Brutal Attack On BART A suspect wearing a mask inspired by both the Edvard Munch painting and the horror movie franchise Scream allegedly attacked a young man on BART after he boarded an East Bay-bound train at Colma Station on Tuesday.
SF News BART Begins Publishing Load Charts To Help Riders Avoid Crowded Trains As part of its process to encourage people to start using BART to commute around the Bay again, the transit agency is now publishing load charts for all trains, showing which are the least and most crowded.
SF News Day Around the Bay: BART Director Praises Robert E. Lee Another BART director is drawing public ire, BART's board just approved $200 million in budget cuts, and a group of farm workers in central California have gone on strike following a COVID outbreak.
SF News Homeless Woman Allegedly Pushes Man Onto BART Tracks In Front of Oncoming Train, And He Narrowly Escapes A woman identified as a transient who had been sleeping on a bench nearby is accused of attempted murder after allegedly shoving a man onto the BART tracks at Downtown Berkeley Station Monday night.
SF Politics East Bay BART Director Under Fire for Disputing That ‘BART PD Murders People,' Forgetting Oscar Grant UPDATE: A BART board director who was Karen-ing pretty hard has deleted her Twitter after the local transit Twitterverse called for her to step down.
SF News BART Service to North San Jose Begins Saturday, Several Decades and $2.3 Billion Later True to form, BART has finally cleared miles of red tape and hurdled past legions of complications to extend train service to San Jose for the first time in the middle of a pandemic when South Bay commuters need it least. But they did it, dammit!
SF News Frontline BART Worker Tests Positive for COVID-19 A third BART employee, this time a frontline worker, has tested positive for COVID-19, and BART says that the worker did not interact "closely" with riders, had been masked on the job, and has been sent home to self-isolate.
SF News BART's 15-Point 'Welcome Back' Plan Includes Personal Hand Straps, Electrostatic Fog Treatments As BART prepares for some of its pre-pandemic ridership to return, agency management today unveiled a 15-point plan to keep riders as safe and as socially distanced as possible on a public transit system.
SF News Day Around the Bay: BART Announces June Openings for New South Bay Stations SF health director Dr. Grant Colfax warns that the city will be battling the coronavirus for up to two years, a new small outbreak has been found at Laguna Honda Hospital, and BART is finally opening the Milpitas and San Jose Berryessa stations in June.
SF Politics Trump Spends Morning Tweeting About Transit Funds That Were Announced a Month Ago In an effort to change the conversation away from his moronic decision to take the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine to fend off the coronavirus, President Trump was on Twitter this morning "announcing" month-old transit funding allocations from the CARES Act.
SF News BART's Morning Rush Hour Is Now 5:30 to 7 a.m., Because Nurses The only people riding BART these days, for the most part, are essential workers like grocery store clerks and healthcare personnel, and they go to work earlier than most of us.
SF News BART Will Keep Running During Shelter-In-Place Period As of today, BART is committing to keeping its trains running during the three-week mandatory shelter-in-place order in the Bay Area in order to help residents to do essential travel.
SF News Dear BART, If You Want More Riders on Nights and Weekends, Stop Being Filthy, Slow, and Scary BART can't just wave a magic wand and get riders back as its aging trains and tracks make for some truly unpleasant — if not dangerous — experiences during late-night and off hours.
SF News Police Put BART Chain-Attack Suspect On Psychiatric Hold A suspect who allegedly attacked a fellow BART passenger with a chain, unprovoked, on board a train in Oakland Tuesday evening has been arrested, but not yet publicly identified.
SF News BART Police Seek Suspect Who Attacked Rider With Chain Just one day into BART's new Ambassador program, a BART rider was attacked and injured by a suspect on board a Daly City-bound train Tuesday evening.
SF News BART Adds Ambassadors, Switches Up Some Train Schedules Starting Today Today is the first day for the pilot BART Ambassadors program, so commuters may begin seeing the unarmed outreach personnel patrolling trains in search of quality-of-life infractions. Also, some train schedules are shifting for commuters between SF and the East Bay.
SF News BART To Change Services Starting Tomorrow, Significant Updates For Yellow And Green Lines Brace yourself for longer headway times between BART trains on Sundays, certain rail car services ending at Concord instead of Pleasant Hill, and a host of other noteworthy adjustments the rapid transit agency will kick off Monday morning.
