SF News Video: Watch Passengers Poke Around BART's 'Fleet Of The Future' BART's "Fleet of the Future" is slowly but surely rolling toward a widespread deployment, but as that's still a ways away, BART officials have offered up curious commuters a chance to check out
SF News Warm Springs BART Likely Won't Open Ahead Of Bond Vote After All The several times delayed Warm Springs BART extension will not open this weekend as officials originally hoped. The Chronicle reports that the latest delay, due to unfinished testing, makes it significantly less likely
SF News Map: San Franciscans Want New Subway Lines Pretty Much Everywhere San Francisco has some decent public transit, but huge chunks of the city are conspicuously under-served. Right now, for example, The Examiner tells us that only 25 percent of jobs are within walking
SF News People Lose 40 Pounds Worth Of Keys Every Month On BART, And Other Fun Facts You may think it's the end of the world if you lose your cellphone or wallet on BART, but you may not realize that they actually have a functioning Lost and Found department
SF News Check Out A Brand New BART Car, In Person, In The East Bay This Weekend Yes, it smells like new car. #FleetOfTheFuture pic.twitter.com/dOB580FUw8— SFBART (@SFBART) April 6, 2016 BART's "fleet of the future" is coming, but with full deployment of the new train cars not
SF News BART Experiencing Systemwide Delays Due To Equipment Problems In Daly City And Richmond Blame it on the rain, maybe, but a power outage and subsequent equipment problem between Colma and Daly City stations is causing systemwide delays on the BART system. BART spokesperson Alicia Trost explains
SF News Photo Du Jour: Fruitvale Station Renamed? Since about 2011, Oakland's Frank H. Ogawa Plaza has been identified by activists and protesters from the Occupy and Black Lives Matter movements as Oscar Grant Plaza to commemorate the 22-year-old from Hayward
SF News BART To Central Valley? Advocates Score $2.2 Million To Lay Out Controversial Plan BART and you're there — in Central Valley? Alameda County Supervisor Scott Haggerty likes the sound of that, as he's leading the charge to extend the reach of the Bay Area's regional transit system
SF News In Wake Of Murder, Broken And Dummy Surveillance Cameras Found Across Oakland BART is not the only one with a security camera problem. According to CBS 5, Oakland city officials are scrambling this week to replace broken and dummy cameras across the city after it
SF News BART Hopes To Use Clay To Seal Leaky Tunnels Known As 'The Rainforest' The section of tunnel is so consistently damp that BART maintenance crews call it “the rainforest.” As opposed to "the pricey real estate above," as BART writes, "BART’s tunnels in downtown San
SF News Fatality Involving Train Shut Down 16th Street BART Station Friday Night A man was struck and killed by a BART train Friday evening, leading to some service delays and a two-hour shutdown of 16th Street Station. As Mission Local reports, the incident happened at
SF News BART Tests 'Enzyme Misting System' To Neutralize Persistent Elevator Pee Stank Daily BART riders such as Sunday Parker, who rely on the system's spotty, sometimes unpleasant elevator service had good news last month: The transit agency announced plans to coat elevator floors with a
Arts & Entertainment Self-Appointed BART 'Artist-In-Residence' Installs Subway Swings, Hopscotch Installing swings in public spaces like on Billy Goat Hill is a time-honored San Francisco pastime. Ironically, the emblem for the SF Rec and Parks Department is a child on just such a
SF News Check Yourself, Manspreaders: BART's 'Seat Hog' Ordinance Is Now In Effect Hold onto your butts: BART's new "seat hog" rule is here and it's ready to party. Or be enforced. Whatever. Passed in April, the measure allows BART police to run criminal background checks
SF News BART Now Paying Passengers To Avoid Morning Rush-Hour Commute In a bid to ease congestion during commute hours, BART officials today announced the launching of a new rider program called "BART Perks." The idea, officials explain in a press release, is to
SF News Video: Pantless Man Smokes Meth (Or Crack) On BART SOME HOMELESS GUY SMOKIN CRACK ON BART pic.twitter.com/G2Bnh3MzGs— LIKNEM (@SOMESTEEZ) August 28, 2016 A possibly homeless man without shoes, wearing what appears to be a towel draped over his legs
SF News There's Been An Uptick In Cellphone Snatchings On BART It's uncertain if the same individual or group of individuals can be blamed, but there's been a spate of cellphone thefts on BART the last two weeks, and BART Police are saying riders
SF News Police Discover Stabbing Victim On Civic Center BART Platform BART police are investigating a stabbing that took place at or near San Francisco's Civic Center BART station, after the victim of the attack was discovered on the platform Wednesday night. The Bay
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
