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
SF News BART Employs Multiple Full-Time Staffers At Empty, Unused Station Those of you aghast at the BART janitor paid $271,000 a year to spend hours a day in a storage closet will have new fodder for your resigned dismay today, as it's
SF News BART Directors Propose Sanctuary In Transit Policy In an Oakland meeting of the BART Board yesterday, two BART directors took the stance that the regional transit system should investigate and perhaps adopt a "Sanctuary in Transit Policy." That policy, those
SF News BART Janitor Who Makes $271K A Year Spends Hours At A Time In A Storage Closet Quick thought experiment: You're a janitor at a BART station, and not just any BART station, but the Powell Street BART station, a uniquely gross nexus of sadness and squalor. How much pay
SF News Alleged Masturbator Arrested On BART A man who police say was masturbating while riding BART was arrested Friday, and has been banned from using the transit service for the next month. KRON 4 reports that a woman on
SF News BART Faces Tough News Cycle With Alleged Sexual Battery, $1.2 Million Judgement, Possible Corporate Sponsors For Stations If news were baseball, BART would have been declared out this morning. Three very different news stories illustrated problems that the transit agency appears to have brought on themselves: A judgement against them
SF News Delays And Crowds Cause Big Hit To BART Rider Satisfaction In New Survey In BART's biennial survey of its regular riders, complaints are up about noise and lack of places to sit, and unsurprisingly given BART's delay- and breakdown-plagued 2016, overall satisfaction with the system is
SF News Taser-Wielding Gang Robs Woman Waiting At Powell BART Platform A group of seven people robbed a woman of her cell phone Sunday night as she waited inside the supposed safety of a San Francisco BART station. The crime occurred at 10:55
SF News BART Says, Actually, Standing On The Right And Passing On The Left Causes Escalators To Break While it's part of Bay Area gospel and a piece of established etiquette that longtime residents try to drill into the minds of all newcomers to stick to the right side of a
SF News Police Release Photos Of Suspect In Machete Slashing Case At Civic Center BART The San Francisco Police Department is still seeking their suspect in a machete attack last week inside the Civic Center BART station. The attack occurred on Friday evening, January 6, and was witnessed
SF News Update: BART Service Outage Between 24th St. And Colma After Two Trains Hit Tree Limb 24th Mission Street Station Chaos. #SFBART #BART #SF .@SFBART pic.twitter.com/b5tlV3lUXz— Charlie (@PerKerry) January 11, 2017 Under heavy winds during rush hour this evening, a BART train struck a large tree
SF News Man Trapped Between BART Train And Platform Dies, Donor Pays To Ship Remains To Philippines Following the death of a man who was trapped between a BART train and the platform at San Francisco's 24th Street Station last week, an anonymous donor has stepped forward to transport the
SF News Man Slashed With Machete At Civic Center BART Entrance On Friday evening a 29-year-old man had his neck allegedly slashed with a machete near the UN Plaza entrance to Civic Center BART station closest to Seventh Street, and the suspect remains on
SF News Packed Trains, Slow Commute After Disabled Train Halts BART Service To SF That one time #BART was completely insane due to plateform 1 shutting down. pic.twitter.com/jwg6tQLhzk— Keith Ellwood Baker (@KeithEllwood) January 6, 2017 A disabled train in West Oakland halted BART service
SF News SFFD Rescues Possibly Intoxicated Man Pinned At Waist Between BART Cars In SF Witness tells me man hit by @SFBART appeared to be intoxicated & slipped btwn train & platform. #ABC7now 24th & Miss pic.twitter.com/Olf4SlOQEE— Katie Utehs (@KatieUtehs) January 5, 2017 A man
SF News Free Muni, Late BART, And Free Towing All On The Table This New Year's Eve People celebrating New Year's Eve in San Francisco have even fewer excuses than usual to drive drunk Saturday, as bountiful options are available to shuttle partiers safely back home. According to the San
SF News BART Bolts Swinging Doors Shut To Stump Fare Evaders, Unimpressed Fire Inspector Says Stop A quick fix to the problem of fare evaders on BART has been shut down just as fast as it was implemented. That was a decision by the transit agency to bolt closed
