SF News Panhandling and Busking Ban Gets Thumbs Up From BART Staff Report A proposed ban on all panhandling and busking on BART trains appears to be moving forward as a new report from the transit agency's legal staff finds that a ban should pass muster if it's only for paid areas like platforms and trains.
SF News Suspect Arrested in West Oakland Following Box-Cutter Slashing On BART An apparently mentally disturbed suspect was arrested Friday afternoon after an incident in which a woman was stabbed or slashed with a box-cutter on board a BART train.
SF News Riding BART to SFO Would Get You In TSA Priority Lane Under New Proposal BART is actively trying to incentivize getting to SFO via train, rather than Uber or Lyft or private vehicle, and they want to give riders access to the TSA Priority lane at security via a scan of their Clipper card.
SF News BART Says Service Won't Be Interrupted Despite Wide Possible Power Outage BART pledges that train service will not be interrupted Wednesday and Thursday despite large swaths of the Bay Area being expected to lose power in a PG&E safety shutoff.
SF News Major BART Delays Follow Non-Injury Shooting at Pittsburg-Bay Point Five people were detained for questioning Monday evening following a shooting at BART's Pittsburg-Bay Point Station.
SF News Video Shows Dozens Jumping Over BART Gates After Rolling Loud Festival in Oakland A mere four days after BART decided to move forward with new, more fare-cheat-proof gates, a Twitter video surfaced yesterday after Oakland’s Rolling Loud festival, showing dozens of riders jumping over the gates at the Coliseum BART Station.
SF News BART May Not Reach Parts of Silicon Valley and Downtown Jose Until 2030 Don’t sweat: BART is still on-track to service part of San Jose by the end of this calendar year. However, the rapid transit system we love to hate might not reach certain parts of Silicon Valley, including downtown San Jose, until 2030.
SF News BART Board Votes To Install Muni-Esque Fare Gates To Combat Evasion BART's directors voted Thursday to move forward with a swing-style gate design that is not unlike the fare gates that Muni installed systemwide a decade ago.
SF News BART Board Considers New York City-Style Turnstiles To Combat Fare Evasion The comedy of errors over at BART over how to update its 50-year-old fare gate designs continues, though it might come with a significant twist this week.
SF News Person Struck By Train Closes Powell Station, Causes BART Snarl A "major medical emergency" was reported at the Powell Street BART Station Thursday afternoon at 2 p.m., with the whole station shut down and emergency personnel on the scene.
SF News BART Drivers: ‘Fleet of the Future’ Trains Might Trap And Kill You Oh, this isn’t troubling at all: A veteran BART driver says of the Fleet of the Future trains, “passengers could be trapped in a car while an emergency is going on.”
SF News Lots More Homeless Are Riding BART Trains All Day Than Last Year While complaints about the homeless on trains are not new, the problem appears to have gotten significantly worse on BART this year.
SF News BART Board May Ban Panhandling, But Buskers Could Be Barred Too A full banishment of panhandling could be in the works for the BART system, but we’d lose our lovely musical busking performers in the stations as well.
SF News BART Board President Says Milpitas and Berryessa Stations Will Open by December 31st After much hoopla and delay, the president of the BART board has promised that two new South Bay BART stations are almost definitely going to open by December 31st.
SF News Passenger Kicks Through BART Train Window, Causes System Delays A suspect reportedly kicked through a window of a BART train on Tuesday afternoon, leading to Embarcadero Station being briefly shut down and residual delays in both the eastbound and westbound directions.
SF News Man In Tracks At Montgomery Station Causes Huge Mid-Morning BART Delay A man who was injured underneath a westbound BART train at Montgomery Station Wednesday morning led to significant systemwide delays — including a significant backup in West Oakland for SF-bound riders.
SF News Two Stabbed On BART Escalator In Downtown Berkeley Early Tuesday A man and a woman exiting the Downtown Berkeley BART station Monday night/early Tuesday were stabbed by an assailant who has not been located. Both victims were hospitalized with non-life-threatening wounds.
SF News BART Will Extend Its Poop-Preventing Elevator Patrol To Two More Downtown SF Stations The BART system would prefer you call them “elevator attendants,” and they’ll soon expand from just Civic Center and Powell Street to Montgomery Street and the Embarcadero Station as well.
Arts & Entertainment Design Geeks Cheer Application For Historic Designation For Glen Park BART Station Glen Park Station has long been a favorite of all the BART stations among architecture nerds and other aesthetes. And now a local preservationist has applied for it to be added to the National Register of Historic Places.
SF News Muni Dumps Water On BART, Shuts Down Embarcadero Station While testing a fire-suppression system Thursday morning, Muni sprung a leak, flooding its own Embarcadero Station and sending water cascading into the BART station below it.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Major BART Delays Lead To Crowded East Bay Platforms A Tenderloin carjacking leads to a chase and a crash in Oakland, BART was having major issues in the East Bay this morning on the Dublin line, and Berkeley is banning natural gas in all new buildings.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Couple Takes BART To Wedding In Oakland, With Their Whole Wedding Party A San Francisco couple opted out of the usual limo or party bus ride across the Bay to their wedding on Saturday, and instead took their whole wedding party on BART from Powell to Lake Merritt.
SF News Everyone Hates The New Double-Stacked BART Fare Gates (And They Don't Thwart Fare Evaders) BART has only installed the "double-clamp" fare gates in one station — Richmond — but the news stories and public grumbling about them continue.
SF News Air Compressors Blamed For Disabled BART Train That Led To Evacuation The failure of air compressors in two consecutive new train cars left a BART train inoperable on Monday, leading to the evacuation of 421 passengers from the middle of train tunnel in Oakland.
SF News BART's New Double Gates Don't Actually Stop Fare Evaders, And Most Citations Go Unpaid Anyway BART has a well-documented fare evasion problem — and one that it's likely been under-reporting — and the transit agency's latest method of curbing the problem doesn't look like it's doing much at all.
