SF News Berkeley Homeless Encampment Near BART Tracks Cleared Out, While Here/There Encampment Stays Residents of the "Here/There" homeless encampment in Berkeley are celebrating today as they were granted a temporary reprieve by a judge, who blocked an attempt by BART police to evict the residents
SF News BART Hopes To Get First Fleet Of The Future Cars Rolling By Thanksgiving After all the delays and bellyaches, it seems like we're finally going to see BART's new cars cruising the rails sooner rather than later. The Chronicle reports that 10 of BART's new "Fleet
SF News Alleged BART Pooper Busted, But Not For Pooping On BART According to a Facebook fan who sent me this photo, the person who was caught using @SFBART as a public 🚽 has struck again. pic.twitter.com/jQgYJvCU5K— Stanley Roberts (@SRobertsKRON4) October 20, 2017
Arts & Entertainment Short Film Features BART Station Agent Who Happily Greets Thousands Daily Agent of Connection from Ivan Cash on Vimeo. Laughing Squid spotted this very well-made short film which focuses on BART agent William Cromartie, who says he personally greets 4,000 commuters every day
SF News Dog Who Disrupted BART Commutes Now Up For Adoption Bart - rescued by @SFBART from the tracks. Now available for adoption. Come meet him! https://t.co/luCk35Ux4W #AdoptDontShop #bartdog pic.twitter.com/w55GLPbZpc— OaklandAnimalShelter (@oaklandsanimals) October 8, 2017 The dog who
SF News Man Stabs Three On East Bay BART Platform, Evades Capture A man who stabbed three people on a BART platform this weekend remains at large Monday, just the latest in an ongoing series of attacks at the transit agency. According to ABC 7,
SF News BART Found Guilty Of 'Egregious' Safety Violations In 2013 Worker Deaths A judge has ruled that BART was guilty of "serious and egregious" safety lapses in the case of the deaths of two workers on the tracks who were struck by a train in
SF News BART's 'Fleet of the Future' Speeds Off Further Into The Future With A New Delay Hopefully you weren't holding your breath, because thanks to yet another delay, the Bay Area will just have to wait a little bit longer to ride on BART's "Fleet of the Future." The
SF News Vegas Shooting And Busy Week Means No Vacation Time For SFPD Officers It's a worrisome combination: Sunday night's mass shooting in Las Vegas, in which at least 59 people were killed and over 500 injured, comes at the same time as one of San Francisco's
SF News Bevan Dufty Tries To Make Point To BART Management By Cleaning Station Himself In defiance of BART management, BART board member Bevan Dufty has been picking up a broom and helping clean 16th Street Station himself. Dufty has been arguing that the station, one of the
SF News Would A Flat $30 Rate Convince You To Take A Taxi To SFO? Gather round kiddies, and I'll tell you a tale: Long, long ago, before your cell phone could let you do anything besides make calls and play Snake, people who wanted to travel to
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
