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
SF News BART's Ancient Computer Systems Are Holding Up Opening Of New Warm Springs/South Fremont Station We were led to believe by some optimists at BART that the long-awaited Warm Springs extension, which takes BART's Fremont line 5.4 miles further south toward San Jose, was going to be
SF News Woman Handcuffed And Held Down By BART Police Suffers Miscarriage A pregnant woman traveling to the doctor's office with her boyfriend had a violent encounter with BART police that we reported on in August, and she now says the incident caused her to
SF News Civic Center BART Attack Sends Man To Hospital An early-morning altercation at the Civic Center BART station in San Francisco left a man injured Thursday, after he was shoved down the stairs and stabbed. Police say that the attack went down
SF News Saturday Rain Leads To Power Outages, Downed Trees, Trapped BART Train Once again proving that SF's infrastructure can't really handle much rain, Saturday's modest rainfall led to some major BART troubles and power outages, as well as some downed trees and branches, and at
SF News [Updated] Strong Aftershocks Follow 6.5 Magnitude Quake Off California Coast At least two significant aftershocks have followed a 6.5 magnitude earthquake that struck just off the Northern California coast Thursday morning. According to the US Geological Survey, the initial quake occurred at
SF News The BART Connection To SFO Is Losing Riders Fast As Uber/Lyft Airport Rides Skyrocket In some not so surprising news, ever since Uber and Lyft have been given free rein to pick up and drop off passengers at SFO, ridership on BART's SFO line has been steadily
SF News Unofficial BART Notice Calls Out Racism, Etc., Tells Riders To 'Get Your S**t Together' Several official-looking but clearly unofficial BART notices observed by riders this morning call attention to the national uptick in angry, bigoted attacks since the election of Donald Trump in a campaign whose rhetoric
SF News Tube Job: BART Approves $267 Million Transbay Earthquake Retrofit That Could Disrupt Service For Years Per a BART staff report, the 1974-constructed Transbay Tube that runs for more than 3 miles beneath the San Francisco Bay is in need of an update “in anticipation of a future major
SF News Suspect Arrested Following Alleged Molestation Of 9-Year-Old Girl On BART A suspect is in custody following the apparent molestation of a nine-year-old girl on an SF-bound BART train. The Chronicle reports that the attack occurred Sunday near Bay Fair Station in San Leandro,
