SF News BART 'Fleet Of The Future' Train Breaks Down During Test Causing Major Morning Delays It's another bad PR week for BART, and it's just gotten a bit worse after they were testing a four-car train of those new Fleet of the Future cars and it broke down
SF News BART Identifies Some Suspects In Mob Robbery As Woman Comes Forward With Separate Teen Attack Story The swarm robbery by a large group of teenagers that occurred at BART's Coliseum Station Saturday night continues to make the local news as KRON 4, CBS 5, and NBC Bay Area all
SF News No Arrests Yet As BART Catches Flak For Not Publicizing 'Flash Mob' Robbery Should BART have been faster to alert the public about the mob of 40+ teens who bum-rushed fare gates, stormed the platform, and roughed up and robbed a bunch of people at Coliseum
SF News BART Police Beef Up Security After Swarm Robbery By Dozens Of Oakland Teens BART has surveillance video of attacks & robberies but won't release to public it bc suspects are minors @kron4news pic.twitter.com/q1kcKmgeZ3— Will Tran (@KRON4WTran) April 25, 2017 A "flash mob" robbery
SF News The Ongoing BART Voltage Spiking Problem, Explained As you likely heard or experienced last Friday if you're a commuter on BART, the beleaguered rail service had a new encounter with a year-old problem on tracks between North Concord and Pittsburg-Bay
SF News BART's Mystery Voltage Problem Appears To Be Back, Snarls Friday Commute The mysterious electrical problem in which power surges were doing damage to BART's aging fleet of trains last year appears to have returned, and once again train cars were damaged Friday by surges
SF News BART Issues Weird PSA That Implies It's Women's Responsibility To Avoid Creeps On Trains Thom Yorke didn't give us his input, but we're still pretty sure these are some great tips for #AvoidingCreeps while riding. What're yours? pic.twitter.com/CI7GxCoPKl— SFBART (@SFBART) April 11, 2017 BART
SF News Sunken Barge In Bay Is Resting Atop Transbay Tube We learned on Friday that in the midst of that windy storm, just after midnight Thursday night, a barge with a crane on top of it that was under contract to BART capsized
SF News Disability Rights Advocates Sue BART For Broken, Gross Elevators, BART Blames Homelessness Crisis A lawsuit filed in San Francisco federal court yesterday points out what any BART rider already knows: Elevators and escalators on the regional transit system are chronically broken or unusably filthy. But for
SF News 'It's All So BART': Commuters From New Warm Springs Station Disappointed In Service Already BART just opened its first new station in a half decade last week, the Warm Springs/South Fremont Station that extends the system five miles further south toward San Jose on the Fremont
SF News [Update] BART Service Between Oakland And SF Restored As System Recovers From Downed Power Line Madness at West Oakland #bart station. Hundreds of pissed off riders. #CaseOfTheMondays pic.twitter.com/wBc48JlDy6— Eman (@Flipsican) March 27, 2017 An ongoing BART service interruption between San Francisco and the East Bay
SF News Man Arrested After Randomly Attacking Woman On BART 73 year old woman randomly attacked on #Bart this AM. Hospitalized with a head injury. Suspect arrested. @kron4news pic.twitter.com/2JMZv4lBUU— Maureen Kelly (@KRON4MKelly) March 22, 2017 A 73-year-old woman was left
SF News BART's Warm Springs/South Fremont Station Finally Opens Saturday Commuters to and from South Fremont will finally get their own BART station this weekend after what feels like a decade of delays. Warm Springs / South Fremont Station will no longer be a
SF News London Attack Spurs SFO Security Boost An attack that injured an as-yet unknown number of people in London Wednesday has caused San Francisco's airport to increase security, and has San Francisco police monitoring the overseas situation. As reported by
SF News BART Police Seek To Rid Civic Center Of Narcotics Users With Plainclothes Sweeps BART police have arrested 27 suspected drug users at the transit agency's Civic Center Station this week, in a three-day sweep that ran over this Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. According to BART, "Police
SF News Major BART And Muni Delays As Suspicious Item Investigated At Civic Center A suspicious item found at Civic Center Station this morning shut down both BART and Muni Metro service through the station, creating massive system-wide delays for both. As KRON 4 reports, the item
SF News BART Says Their Oakland Airport Connector Is Losing Money Because Of Uber, Lyft Setting aside the fact that BART probably spent way too much money to build the auto-piloted tramway connecting Coliseum Station and Oakland Airport, BART now says that the $500 million boondoggle isn't even
SF News Sex Offender Convicted In BART Masturbation Case Gets 25-Year Sentence 53-year-old Jerome Dion Dawkins, who was convicted last October on multiple counts of lewd behavior and stalking on BART, including false imprisonment, indecent exposure, and lewd acts on children, was sentenced last week
SF News BART's 'Fleet Of The Future' To Roll Out Further In The Future Than Promised Since no news about a BART project being hampered by delays should come as a shock, it should inspire little more than half an eyeroll to hear that BART's fleet of new train
SF News Hundreds Evacuated Following Electrical Fire on BART Large electrical fire at Walnut Creek BART. Trains halted. Crews standing by for BART electricians to secure power. #BARTIC pic.twitter.com/4qbA6yetSa— Confire PIO (@ContraCostaFire) March 5, 2017 As many as 400
SF News Just In Case You Were Wondering, BART's 24th Street Station Is Still Full Of Rats It was way back in 2012 when news surfaced of hapless missives from BART staffers complaining that the 24th Street Station was overrun with rats. More than four years later, you'll be completely,
SF News Overcrowded BART Trains Likely Causing Drop In Ridership, Ironically Despite all the news about the BART system being strained at the seams by population growth and a crush of riders at peak commute hours, overall BART ridership has actually been declining since
SF News Weight Problem: BART's 'Fleet Of The Future' Cars Are A Ton Heavier Than Expected, Could Strain System BART's Fleet of the Future, 775 shiny new train cars that have caused their share of delays and debates in the past, have arrived with a brand new problem: They're a ton overweight,
SF News BART Promises Working Security Cameras In All Trains By July Over a year after many of BART's security cameras were revealed to be fake devices recording nothing, we've got an update on their installation — and you'll be shocked, SHOCKED to hear that the
SF News BART Police Interrupt Sexual Assault At Station A man is in custody today after BART police say they witnessed him sexually assaulting a woman at the transit agency's Rockridge Station in Oakland. NBC Bay Area reports that BART police received
