SF News Saturday Links: CHP Arrests BMW Driver Who Posted Alleged 170 MPH Joyride Videos Online Over 20 nations are now condemning Israel's expansion plans; Giants pitcher Kai-Wei Teng dedicated the first win of his career last night to his dad; and a man was arrested after posting videos of his BMW M4 speeding at 170 mph.
SF News Day Around the Bay: World's Ugliest Dog Contest Opens Sonoma County Fair This Friday The suspect in a recent East Bay Target bombing has been linked to a multi-state ATM heist crew; an LA activist has been tailing and filming ICE agents, while alerting communities to their presence; and the Sonoma County Fair kicks off tonight with the World's Ugliest Dog Contest.
Arts & Entertainment Jokers Pretend to Be Flight Attendants, Bring Beverage Cart on BART In something akin to a Burning Man performance, a trio of jokers dressed up like flight attendants and pushed a beverage cart through a BART train, with the logo saying BART Air.
Arts & Entertainment Field Notes: The Tanforan Memorial’s Legacy, Isaac Julien’s Dreamscape, and '9 to 5'’s SF Roots Field Notes highlights the Tanforan Memorial’s history, Isaac Julien’s cinematic art at the de Young, SF’s cameo in 9 to 5, Pescadero’s coastal charm, and Charlie’s Café—a vibrant Mission District spot bringing people together with food and music.
SF News Clipper Card System Goes Down, Free-For-All Ensues For BART and Muni There was a widespread outage in the Clipper system Tuesday morning that was impacting commuters on BART, Muni, and Caltrain, but many were just treated to free rides.
SF Politics BART and Muni Secure $750M Loan From State Along With Other Local Transit Agencies Some proposed cuts to transit funding are off the table, and Bay Area transit agencies including, primarily, BART and Muni, will be receiving a lifeline in the form of an interest-free loan from the state in the upcoming budget.
SF News Saturday Links: SoCal Man Says He Was Dragged From Van, Arrested for Filming ICE Raid A new report warns that Sonoma County is still not prepared for large scale emergency fire or flood evacuations; a San Jose police officer was arrested for firing his gun and faces child abuse charges; and a SoCal man says he was violently dragged and arrested for filming an ICE raid on Thursday.
SF News Last Month's BART Fire at San Leandro Was Actually a ‘Systemwide’ Issue, and Could Happen Again at Any Station BART officials are revising their explanation of why a fire broke out on the tracks of the San Leandro station and affected service for days, and the problem is apparently a “systemwide” issue that could come up again at any of the 50 BART stations.
SF News BART's Richmond Line Temporarily Halted After Person Reportedly Struck By Train at North Berkeley Station A medical emergency shut down BART's North Berkeley Station Monday morning and service on the Richmond-Millbrae line was also halted.
Arts & Entertainment Last Week, This Week: SF LGBT Center’s Building the Block House Party This weekend: Scenes from Carnaval and Chinatown Pride. Last week: A BART wedding, a Muni tram, a Seth Rogan rom-com, and AI bots on the fritz; This week: book festival, menstrual dignity day, pro-wrestling, and SF LGBT Center block party.
SF News Day Around the Bay: BART’s Green Line Won't Be Running Again Until Tuesday The fired SFPD officer who allegedly caused a DUI crash pleaded not guilty; the Golden State Valkyries won their first game ever; and BART’s Green Line won’t run again until Tuesday, but you can still transfer trains and get anywhere.
SF News Humpday Headlines: BART Service Mostly Restored After San Leandro Fire BART has restored most service but Green Line service remains down today; a missing 2-year-old girl has been found in Oakland; and the Trump Justice Department is dropping federal oversight of the Minneapolis and Louisville police departments — but not Oakland's, yet.
Arts & Entertainment Couple Gets Married on Moving BART Train, With Bouquet Made of BART Tickets Congratulations to newlyweds Lenora and John, who were married over the weekend on a moving BART train, with the bride’s bouquet fashioned from paper BART tickets, and flower garlands decking out their train car.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Fire at San Leandro Station Disables Some BART Service An electrical fire at San Leandro Station halted all BART service south of Lake Merritt; United Airlines has been having catering troubles at SFO; and Waymo has gotten the OK to expand service to San Jose.
SF News BART Riders and Police Injured In Some Sort of Pepper Spray Incident at Powell Station An assailant may have sprayed pepper spray at police officers on the platform of Powell Street Station, or someone did, and the incident led BART trains to temporarily bypass the station Saturday afternoon.
Arts & Entertainment Last Week, This Week: Hunter Pence to Lead Guinness World Record Attempt A round-up of last week's highlights: BART’s meltdown, SFPD overtime, and a flipped Lamborghini. Plus, the week ahead: SFJazz jam session; a conversation with Rebecca Solnit; and Hunter Pence leading a Guinness Record attempt.
SF News BART Says Morning Meltdown Was Due to Isolated Device Malfunction, No Further Problems Anticipated BART officials have been quick to reassure the public that Friday morning's complete and total shutdown of the system, which lasted for five hours, was due to a minor, isolated problem that has been addressed.
SF News Update: Limited BART Service Returns After Rush Hour Meltdown Due to Computer Issue BART was forced to close all 50 stations in the system Friday morning around 4:30 am due to an issue that was affecting service in the entire system.
SF News Sunday Links: Jeffries, Booker Hold Sit-In At Capitol To Protest GOP Budget Plan A Tenderloin resident was critically injured and a dog was killed during a small apartment fire on Friday; SF State has completed a new state-funded student affordable housing complex; and Hakeem Jeffries and Cory Booker held a sit-in protest Sunday on the Capitol steps.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Bibliophiles Celebrate Indie Bookstore Day Saturday As Amazon Holds Overlapping Sale A former San Bruno elementary school teacher was sentenced to 25 years in prison for molesting four of his students; Cornell removed Kehlani from its Slope Day lineup due to her pro-Palestine views; and Amazon is holding a major sale the same time as Independent Bookstore Day.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: BART Considers Selling Off East Bay Land The BART board is set to begin looking at selling off some 235 acres of unused land it owns in the East Bay; Meta is closing some offices in Fremont; and a Tesla charging station had all of its charging cables cut.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Red Flags Abound As Fyre Fest 2 ‘Changes Locations,’ Authorities Say No Paperwork Was Ever Filed Organizers say Fyre Fest 2 is still happening in a couple months, even though Mexican authorities said no paperwork had been filed; Musk’s xAI has acquired X, officially “intertwining” the two; and Sex Pistols tickets go on sale April 4.
SF News Amidst 'Fiscal Cliff’ Panic, Scott Wiener Introduces BART and Muni Funding Package As fears set in that BART trains would run just once an hour and Muni might cut frequency by 50%, state Senator Scott Wiener is proposing a funding package to save them, but it involves voters approving a new sales tax.
SF News Saturday Links: 30,000 Attend AOC and Bernie Sanders’s 'Fight the Oligarchy' Visit In Denver Over 30,000 people attended Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders’s joint tour stop in Denver; two unions representing 60,000 University of California employees are poised to begin striking on April 1; and Bach on BART is in full swing.
SF News BART Fare Evasion Way Down With the New Gates, or at Least That’s What BART Claims BART is touting that fare evasion may have dropped by one third since they started putting in those so-called “evasion-proof” fare gates, though this is just based on some informal poll they did where they asked riders if they saw anyone hopping the gates.
