SF News 74-Year-Old Woman Killed After Being Pushed Into Oncoming BART Train In SF, Homeless Male Suspect Arrested An elderly woman was allegedly pushed toward an oncoming train Monday night at Powell Street Station, hitting her head and landing on the platform.
SF News BART Offering 'Most Robust Service Ever' For Pride Sunday BART is planning to run trains every five minutes through San Francisco starting Sunday morning, in what it says is its "most robust service ever" for San Francisco's Pride Parade.
SF News Derailed Maintenance Vehicle Leads to BART Delays, Emergency Track Work A BART maintenance vehicle derailed early Wednesday near 19th Street Station in Oakland, and this has led to some emergency work and the halting of some service out of Richmond.
SF News BART Track Work to Cause Suspension In Service Between 24th Street and Daly City This weekend, June 1 to 2, there will be no BART service — as in no trains running, bus bridge instead — between 24th Street & Mission Station and Daly City, so plan accordingly.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: BART Experiences Major Service Outage In East Bay BART's Orange and Red lines were halted due to an equipment problem Friday morning; the Port of Oakland is countersuing SF over the airport name-change drama; and UCLA may have to pay "Calimony" to UC Berkeley.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: BART Now Required to Fix Elevators Quickly After a settlement in a lawsuit from disability rights advocates, BART is now legally required to fix elevators and escalators quickly; an inmate from Alameda County escaped a prison camp; and Tesla is recalling all its Cybertrucks.
SF News BART Legacy Cars to Be Fully Retired After Celebration and Ceremonial Final Runs on Saturday BART's Fleet of the Future is ready to become the Fleet of the Present, and the legacy fleet of cars with their upholstered seats will be relegated to history after some final runs in the East Bay on Saturday.
SF News Person Stabbed With Box-Cutter on BART Train In San Francisco There was a stabbing incident reported Tuesday night onboard a BART train, and the victim exited the Oakland-bound train at Embarcadero Station.
SF News Crazy Berkeley Kids Appear to Have Set Guinness World Record for Fastest-Ever ‘BART Speedrun’ Seven UC Berkeley students completed what appears to be the all-time record by riding through all 50 BART stations in less than six hours, and they’re being verified to be awarded the Guinness World Record for the fastest BART speedrun ever.
SF News BART Survey Finds Rider Satisfaction Over 80% For First Time In a Decade BART is touting a recent survey of passengers that found over 80% of them fairly happy with their train service — a major improvement since passenger satisfaction began taking about six years ago.
SF News Two Teens Have Died In Two Weeks by ‘Surfing’ on the Tops of BART Trains, Agency Considers Modifications What appears to be another social media-fueled “dare” trend has taken the lives of two Bay Area teens who engaged in BART-surfing on the tops of trains, and BART is now considering modifications to the trains’ rooftop access.
SF News BART’s ‘Fleet of the Future’ Trains Still Glitchy as Heck Whenever It Rains, May Require Expensive Repairs Rain delays are far more frequent with BART’s new “Fleet of the Future” trains than they were with the shoddier old trains, and brake problems on the new trains are the culprit. A new investigation finds the problem might cost ten times more to fix than BART had estimated.
SF News The Race to Replace Barbara Lee in Congress Is Heating Up Longtime East Bay Congresswoman Barbara Lee is vacating her seat in her bid for Senate, and of the nine candidates running to replace her, BART director Lateefah Simon seems to be pulling ahead.
SF News Body Found on BART Tracks Near Balboa Park A body was found early Monday in the BART trackway near Balboa Park Station, and this caused some delays with the first trains running through the area Monday morning.
SF News Man With Machete Arrested on Crowded BART Train In SF A machete-wielding man, who was reportedly just casually waving his large knife around while seated on a crowded BART train, was arrested Monday morning in San Francisco, and it sounds like he's been a frequent flyer with local authorities.
Arts & Entertainment Day Around the Bay: Local Band Shoots Video On Late-Night BART Trains A date has been set for David DePape's state trial; Tesla owners in frigid Chicago are having some major trouble operating their cars in this weather; and local band Business Casual has a new video for their song "Last BART," shot on BART.
SF News BART Announces the Next Eight Stations Getting Those ‘Evasion-Proof’ Fare Gates The new and supposedly gatehopping-proof BART fare gates are already in use at the West Oakland station, and now BART has announced the next eight stations that will get them. Of course, SF’s notorious Civic Center station is on the list.
SF News BART Reveals Details of How Train Derailed and Caught Fire on New Year’s Day The shocking Monday morning BART train derailment that left nine people injured and a train on fire seemed to be a combination of mechanical failures and human error, and that $2.2 million “Fleet of the Future” train will be out of commission for a while.
SF News New Year's Day Links: BART Train Derails, Injuring Nine A person was struck and killed by a car doing donuts in Oakland on New Year's Eve; a BART train partially derailed outside Orinda Station Monday morning, sparking a fire and injuring nine passengers; and another storm is heading our way.
SF News What You Need to Know About Bay Area Public Transit Changes for New Year’s Eve Muni and AC Transit are offering free rides, while BART is extending its operating hours.
SF News BART Unveils Their Supposedly ‘Evasion-Proof’ Fare Gates at West Oakland Station BART’s four-year, $90 million quest for an “evasion-proof” fare gate is now a working reality, at one station at least, as the West Oakland station is now the first out of the gate with the new gates that will soon be installed systemwide.
SF News BART Police Arrest Man Menacing Riders With AR-15-Style Rifle on Christmas Eve It was a wild Christmas Eve on BART, as a man with a semi-automatic rifle was “bothering other riders,” until BART Police arrested him and had him hauled off to Santa Rita Jail.
SF News Smoke on Tracks at 24th Street Station Causes Major BART Delays An equipment problem caused the tracks to smoke at 24th Street station and made a mess of the Monday morning commute, and while the equipment problem is resolved, train delays continue into Monday afternoon.
SF News Berkeley Advocates for Homeless Up In Arms Over Roped-Off ‘For Customers Only’ Section at BART Plaza A very Berkeley story out of Berkeley this week, as a little restaurant plaza outside the BART station has roped off one area with signage saying “For Customers Only,” and advocates for the homeless population are furious over the move.
SF News BART Police Identify Man Who Got Into Transbay Tube, Causing Two-Hour Systemwide Shutdown It's not entirely clear why it took two hours to resolve the situation Wednesday night that left downtown SF BART stations massively crowded, and the entire system paralyzed. But BART police have identified the suspect.
