SF News Outraged Commuter Records BART Rider Using Train As Restroom We all know that BART elevators (and escalators!) are frequently used as restrooms. According to a regular BART rider, the trains are also at risk, and he has video of one such incident
SF News Stray Dog On BART Tracks Causes Major Delays pic.twitter.com/HlFIVB9KXl— Salim Tarazi (@starazi) September 27, 2017 A dog that somehow got down onto the BART tracks at Coliseum Station Wednesday morning caused some major rush-hour delays. BART first reported
SF News Crew Of Panhandlers On BART Turn Out To Be Roma, Living In Hayward There's been an apparent uptick recently in the number of panhandlers working on the BART system, some of them women carrying babies and others men who seem to speak little English, pass out
SF News BART Says Randomly Beaten Rider 'Out Of The Ordinary,' Apparently Forgetting Similar Attacks Last Month An unprovoked attack on a woman riding BART from city college drew a seemingly disingenuous response from the transit agency, with a spokesperson terming the random attack as "out of the ordinary" though
SF News Photos Released Of BART Note Passer/Attempted Mugger, Do You Recognize Her? The story of a bizarre attempted robbery on BART that some thought was too strange to be true...was actually true, it appears, after the transit agency released surveillance video of the woman
SF News BART Gives Away Free Weekend Round Trip Tickets In an effort to help boost its weekend ridership, BART is handing out free round-trip tickets that are good for a trip on any weekend until December 18th. The agency has already distributed
SF News Bizarre BART Mugging Attempt Goes Sideways When Victim Fakes Seizure When a BART passenger was handed a note demanding her wallet and phone, the quick thinking woman took an original approach to thwarting the theft: She pretended to have a medical emergency, which
SF News Roughed-Up Riders Suing BART For Inadequate Security The $3 million civil suit against BART brought forward by the family brutalized in the infamous deplorable teen flash mob robbery has now morphed into a much larger class action suit with more
Arts & Entertainment Incredibly Satisfying Video Follows BART's 'Brightening Crew' As They Power-Wash Station Stairs Aww, some nice PR for BART for a change. BART just posted this video, apparently produced by their in-house communications team, highlighting the work of the guys who power-wash all the grime (and
Arts & Entertainment Video: Mapping 24 Hours Of SF Transit In Two Minutes A mapping startup called Mapzen has been working on an experimental map-visualization project called TransitFlow that provides us an animated look at 24 hours worth of transit-vehicle movement around San Francisco. Curbed points
SF News BART Says Riders Who Don't Pay Fares Don't Cost The Transit Agency Anything When does a rider who doesn't pay their fare cost the cash-strapped transit agency known as BART any money? When that rider is related to an employee, if comments made by their spokesperson
SF News Woman Arrested For Allegedly Abusing Her Kids At BART Station A woman was arrested Saturday at BART's MacArthur station, after witnesses say she was physically abusing her two young children as she stood on the platform. Bay City News reports that 28-year-old Oakland
SF News Overcome By The Heat, BART Announces Delays As Long As 60 Minutes All Weekend Those of us feeling dramatically less productive due to the current heat wave have a spirit animal in BART, it appears, as the transit agency has announced that the weather has caused them
SF News [Update] Suspicious Package Disrupts Muni And BART Service, Briefly Closes Market Street At Powell Market St closed on 800 block pic.twitter.com/jDwkJm6pIZ— _ (@R27D) August 30, 2017 Fears of a suspicious package spurred officials to close a busy stretch of Market Street Wednesday afternoon and to
SF News Video: BART Riders Rush To Stop Oncoming Train After Jumper Lands On Tracks A man who was possibly in crisis jumped onto the tracks at the Civic Center BART station Monday afternoon was saved after multiple riders on the station platform waved to get the attention
SF News BART To Permanently Close Two Entrances To Civic Center Station That entrance to the BART/Muni station at the foot of Grove Street, in front of Burger King, is a thing of the past, and BART will also be closing the corresponding entrance
SF News BART Defends Panhandling As Free Speech, But Says 'Aggressive Panhandlers' Will Be Arrested A man was arrested at the Bay Fair BART station Tuesday, after he allegedly battered a patron who refused to give him money. The incident was detailed in a Facebook post published by
SF News BART Patrons Arrested In SF For Threats To Women, Attempted Hat Theft In a welcome change of pace to the many stories of unsolved BART crime, BART police say they made at least two arrests this weekend, both at stations in San Francisco. The first
SF News Day Around The Bay: BART To Open One Hour Later At 5 AM Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here We now have a cause of death for Home
SF News Party's Over For BART Gate-Hoppers As Police Crack Down On Fare Evasion If you’re in on the dirty little secret that many BART stations (like Embarcadero) have free-swinging gate exits that you can just walk right through, your swinger party may be over. ABC
SF News Billion Dollar BART Extension To Livermore Has Officials Livid Have you ever gazed at the system map while riding BART and noticed some dotted-line ‘proposed extensions’ and said to yourself “Haha yeah right, as if I’m going to live that long!
SF News Things People Do On BART: Pepper-Spray, Carry Crack, Attack, Shave Monday-BART police searching for this man. Accused of assaulting passengers in 2 separate incidents @kron4news pic.twitter.com/hMC0I3TxbT— Will Tran (@KRON4WTran) August 7, 2017 Did BART's decision to stop sending out their
SF News BART Fills Budget Gap By Letting Ford And United Airlines Wrap Whole Trains With Ads BART debuts train cars wrapped in ads. https://t.co/VXMWCoNeRm via @matierandross pic.twitter.com/BI8rQbP6rZ— SFChronicle (@sfchronicle) August 2, 2017 In yet another case of a public transit entity making ends
SF News Man Busted For Alleged BART Wank Session A man was reportedly arrested by BART police at a San Francisco station this weekend, on reports of indecent public activity. KRON 4 reports that the arrest occurred at 6:44 a.m.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Fed Up Woman Places Masturbating Man Under Citizen's Arrest On BART The health department releases an updated map of the highest injury streets and intersections for traffic incidents. [Hoodline] A man who was allegedly masturbating on BART was placed under citizen’s arrest by
