SF News Day Around The Bay: Golf Club-Wielding Man Allegedly Smashes Up BART Train, Causes Big Delays Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. The last remaining resident of a shrimping village established
SF News BART Spends $340K To Pee-Proof Elevators For many people, BART elevators are something to be avoided — even if they do happen to be working. For others, they're a necessary means of accessing the public transit that we all depend
SF News Design Your Dream SF Subway System With New SFMTA Tool San Francisco public transit riders can be forgiven for giving in to the occasional fantasy. Hopeful, even wistful maps of what local transportation might have been or might yet be are widely made
SF News East Bay BART Delays To Start Today And Last Three Weeks Adding another repair project to the list, BART officials just announced new work in the East Bay that will result in ongoing delays for passengers. The repairs, which start today and involve replacing
SF News Morning BART Fire Means Delays All Day Friday BART riders at 24 St. station headed to SFO/peninsula told:take alternative trans. due to track power cable issue. pic.twitter.com/BSDipE0wJB— Cbarnard (@CornellBarnard) August 12, 2016 Bay Area commuters are
SF News You May Again Be Able To Pee In A Powell BART Station Restroom... In 2018 Moving slower than frozen molasses per usual, a plan BART announced a year ago to possibly reopen some underground restrooms that have been closed over safety concerns since September 11th 2001 is still
Arts & Entertainment Local Artist Puts A Bunch Of Bart Simpsons On BART Because Why Not In a public art project that is more delightfully random than meaningful, local artist Elissa Patel decided to put a bunch of people in Bart Simpson masks and have them ride BART for
SF News In Extremely BART Move, New 'Fleet Of The Future' Delayed By Six Months Yes, it smells like new car. #FleetOfTheFuture pic.twitter.com/dOB580FUw8— SFBART (@SFBART) April 6, 2016 The arrival the first "Fleet of the Future" BART car in April was a much-ballyhooed event, with
Arts & Entertainment The 8 Coolest BART And Muni Stations For this week's local listicle, we turn to public transit, and specifically to our favorite Muni and BART stops, most of which are underground. To be clear, these are not necessarily the absolute
SF News Claims Of Racism Following Violent BART Arrest A violent arrest caught on video at the Embarcadero BART station last Friday has led to allegations of racism — not in the actions of police but in that of an older white man
SF News Video: Excessive Force Allegations After BART Police Punch Handcuffed Man In Face An arrest by BART police has sparked claims of excessive force after video depicting an officer punching a handcuffed and prone African American man in the face went viral. CBS 5 reports that
SF News Reminder: Weekend BART Closures Start Tomorrow And Will Impact SFO Trips As we mentioned earlier this month, BART will cease service between Glen Park and Daly City for a host of weekends over the coming months as it works to replace and repair track.
SF News Officials Approve $40M In Projects To Ease Your Bay Bridge Commute With traffic in the Bay Area so notoriously bad these days, isn't it about time someone do something about it? That seems to be the thought of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, anyway, as
SF News New BART Station Proposed For 30th And Mission District 9 Board of Supervisors candidate Joshua Arce held a press conference this morning to announce plans to build a new BART Station at 30th and Mission Street. And, distinguishing this from just
SF News Alleged DUI Driver Smashed Onto BART Tracks, Snarls Wednesday Commute For the "pics or it didn't happen" crowd. pic.twitter.com/VpbknN5lWi— SFBART (@SFBART) July 21, 2016 BART riders who needed the cross the Bay were left cooling their heels for over an
SF News BART Seriously Still Hasn't Replaced Decoy Cameras With Real Ones When 19-year-old Carlos Misael Funez-Romero of Antioch was shot and killed aboard a BART train at the West Oakland Station on January 9, no footage of the crime was available. That's because, like
SF News BART Responds To Claims That It Misrepresented True Cost Of November Bond Measure With BART officials claiming that much of the transit system's infrastructure has reached the end of its lifespan, a $3.5 billion bond on this November's ballot, if passed by voters, would provide
SF News November BART Bond Might Actually Impact Homeowners More Than They Think With the $3.5 billion BART bond measure officially on November's ballot, one might think that the basic facts of the matter — like how much it will cost local homeowners — would be agreed
SF News (Video) BART Patrons Forced To Scramble Over Side Of Escalator To Nowhere Concord BART riders were faced with a troubling choice Thursday, when they walked down one of the transit agency's oft-broken escalators to the platform, only to have their escape from the steps blocked
SF News Brace For BART Snarls: Shutdowns Between Glen Park And Daly City Begin This Month Prepare yourselves, BART riders who expect to travel south of San Francisco between July and October. If you're headed out on a weekend, you should expect delays, disruptions, and more, as BART will
SF News Fire On SF Tracks Snarls Thursday Morning BART Commute, Empties Glen Park Station Up to 20min delays on BART after a debris fire on the tracks this morning pic.twitter.com/6iFmIIEAJ0— Matthew Zamudio (@neutralcolored) June 30, 2016 BART travel ground to a halt in San
SF News BART Seat Hogging? Expect A Criminal Background Check, Fines Starting this September, BART passengers taking up more than one train seat may be subject to police questioning, criminal background checks, fines, and even arrest. So reports CBS 5 as BART police share
Arts & Entertainment A Look At The 'Best-Case Scenario' For 2050 Bay Area Transit Bay Area denizens love making "dream" maps of public transit. The reality, of course, is that the construction of new lines, tracks, and whatever else is required to add new public transit to
SF News BART GM Acknowledges Her System's A Mess, Doesn't Seem Sure How To Fix It At a Bay Area transportation summit held last week, BART General Manager Grace Crunican sounded, frankly, exhausted and overwhelmed regarding both the system's issues and the public perception of the beleaguered transit agency.
SF News Despite Spending $2.5M, BART Still Doesn't Know What Caused Mystery Voltage Problem Remember those unexplained voltage spikes that knocked over 100 BART cars out of service earlier in the year? Thankfully, whatever was causing the disruption eventually stopped, and BART was able to resume normal
