SF News A BART Director Has A Concealed Gun Permit Because He Fears Activists Since 2010, John McPartland, a member of BART's board of directors, has held a concealed handgun permit from the Alameda County Sheriff's office according to public records obtained by the Chronicle. McPartland appears
SF News Video: Hear The New BART Horn, And Get An Up-Close Look At The New Car's Interior Following that big press event on Wednesday, we now have video footage inside the first of the new Fleet of the Future BART car, currently undergoing testing at BART's Hayward facility. The video
SF News BART Forced To Scrounge For Replacement Parts On eBay As we all know, BART's fleet is old. However, until the remaining 774 new cars are delivered and brought into service over the next five years, we all just have to make do
SF News Photos: First Look Inside That New BART Car, Bike Racks And All It's here. The first of 775 new train cars has arrived in the Bay Area. #BetterBART #FleetOfTheFuture pic.twitter.com/a6AjoqusIT— SFBART (@SFBART) April 6, 2016 After a thankfully uneventful journey across these
SF News The DC Metro, At Almost The Same Age As BART, Is Also Having Major Problems At Middle Age The Bay Area is not alone in having a mass transit system built in the mid-1970's that is showing some major signs of age this past year that are in part the result
SF News BART Delay This Morning Caused By Police Chase And Car Crash Near Tracks In Pleasant Hill UPDATE: A car was reported on the #BART tracks, causing major delays https://t.co/ewPpdMRKh0 pic.twitter.com/YuafM31lnq— KRON 4 News (@kron4news) March 31, 2016 Yet again BART riders faced a
SF News After Weeks-Long Electrical Problem, BART Nearing Regular Service Following a mysterious voltage spike at the end of the Pittsburg/Bay Point line that's bedeviled BART since March 16th, the regional transit system has been running a bus bridge between North Concord
SF News BART's Actually Gotten More Reliable Over Last Seven Years, Not Less — Are They Just Crying Poverty? BART and its decrepit, 30+-year-old fleet of train cars has been a major topic of discussion the last couple weeks after a mysterious voltage spiking problem took a group of them out
SF News As BART Cries Poor On Twitter, They Hand Out $3.3 Million In Bonuses The guy behind BART's much-vaunted "honest tweets" might have a whole new shitshow to deal with today, as the public was reminded that even as the disintegrating transit agency still struggles to get
SF News Company Building New BART Cars Has History Of Missed Deadlines Just before chaos erupted and took 50 of BART's super-ancient cars out of service last week due to a still mysterious, roving voltage spike, we had a cheery video to show you of
SF News In Wake Of Brussels Bombings, SF And BART Police On Heightened Alert #SFPD increasing patrols in transit areas/SFO in response to overseas attacks. If you see something, say something. pic.twitter.com/xJJXfKpKl4— Albie Esparza (@OfficerAlbie) March 22, 2016 In the wake of this
SF News Man Behind BART's Honest Tweets: 'Public Transit Has Always Been About Politics' Until last week, BART's Twitter account has consisted mostly of a series of apologies in reply to tweets from riders. Exhibit A: But like much of BART's strategy and infrastructure, saying "sorry" wasn't
SF News BART Having Come-To-Jesus Moment About Where It's Been Spending Its Money JUST IN: #BART operator says they've successfully run 5-6 test trains this morning from #Pittsburg to #Concord pic.twitter.com/yU0jE60E14— KTVU (@KTVU) March 21, 2016 BART is continuing to run bus bridges
SF News Desperate BART Riders Wrestle Broken Door Shut To Keep Friday Commute From Being Ruined During the already cramped, slow, and frustrating East Bay-bound commute Friday evening, several BART riders took matters into their own hands after a Pittsburg/Bay Point-bound train was about to be taken out
SF News BART Delays, Crowding To Go On Indefinitely As Mystery Voltage Spike Remains Unsolved The problem that began Wednesday when 50 BART cars were jolted out of service due to a voltage spike near the end of the Pittsburg/Bay Point line will not be solved quickly,
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Luck Of The BARTish 🍀 Just met a Bart leprechaun 🍀 pic.twitter.com/Yq6pdiJfhB— cara rose defabio (@caradefabio) March 17, 2016 BART sure could use a little luck today, what with the voltage spikes knocking out so many
SF News BART Chaos Continues As Riders Revolt On Twitter Widespread problems with BART continue today, as we learn that 50 BART cars were damaged by a voltage spike requiring that they be pulled from service. The problem, BART officials tell us, is
SF News Commuters, SFO-Bound Passengers Told To Leave Early Due To BART Problem BART is experiencing a trackside maintenance problem on the Pittsburg/Bay Point line today that has led to systemwide delays, and BART is now warning passengers to possibly leave early or stay at
SF News Video: First Functioning New BART Car Begins Cross-Country Journey On Flatbed Truck It's happening, everyone. BART's spiffy, modern new rail cars are actually hitting the assembly line in upstate New York, and the very first one was just loaded up onto a flatbed truck to
SF News Fear Of Overreach Keeps BART Board From Passing Fines For Seat Hogs You can still lounge to your heart's content across an entire row of BART seats — at least for now. The vote on whether or not to impose fines of up to $500 on
SF News The Massive Cost To Clean Up BART, By The Numbers We all know BART has a well-earned reputation as a grimepit, from the skin-infection hosting seats to their infamous poop escalators. And the problem seems to be getting worse, as a study from
SF News BART Police Release Video of West Oakland Shooting Suspect BART Police today released for the first time video of the suspect in last January's shooting aboard a crowded BART car. The video shows the suspect walking through what appears to be Pittsburg/
SF News Study: BART Cars Host Bacteria Behind Skin Infections, Pneumonia This past December a group investigating the cleanliness of five national transit networks found BART to be teeming with gram-positive cocci — bacteria that can cause skin infections and pneumonia. Samples obtained via swabbing
SF News BART Director Proposes $500 Fine For Seat Hogs Loungers, luggage-bearers, and other folks who spread out into more than one seat beware: If BART Director Joel Keller has his way, seat hogs might soon face fines of as much as $500.
SF News Mystery Problem In Transbay Tube Knocking Out BART Cars BART is in trouble, but it's not the lack of security cameras or overcrowding that has thrown a wrench in the system this time around. Rather, an as-of-yet unidentified problem in the Transbay
