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
SF News BART Seeks To Gamify Commute In Bid To Ease Congestion BART has a rush-hour problem, and with new cars not expected until sometime in 2017, that problem isn't going away anytime soon. Unless, that is, BART's recently announced plan to gamify your commute
SF News Teen Shot To Death Near BART Tracks A 14-year-old boy is dead Monday morning, after he was fatally shot just steps from a trail that runs next to BART in Richmond. According to Richmond Police Department spokesperson Lieutenant Andre Hill,
SF News Will This Action-Packed Video Of Overnight BART Maintenance Shut Us Up About 24-Hour Service? 24-hour BART service is a literal pipe dream. Without a second Transbay Tube, single-track overnight service is out of the question. But the transit agency knows we don't give a damn for their
SF News Woman Dies After Jumping From Concourse To Platform At Civic Center BART A woman has died, BART officials confirmed Sunday morning, after attempting to jump between the concourse and platform levels of Civic Center Station late Saturday night. According to BART spokesperson Taylor Huckabee, the
SF News Mostly Fake BART Surveillance Cameras Will Cost $1.4 Million To Replace The cat has been out of the bag for some time that the "majority" or even the "vast majority" of surveillance cameras onboard BART trains are decoys or otherwise inoperable. In the past
SF News Major BART Delays As They Recover From Computer Glitch Monday Afternoon BART is recovering from a systemwide computer problem today which has caused widespread delays. As you can see, it began as just a 10-minute delay. 10 min delay system wide due to a
SF News Will $10,000 Bounty Help Police Find The West Oakland BART Train Shooter? Nearly a month after a man was shot and killed while riding BART, it appears the police are no nearer to finding his killer. Will a cash reward help develop a lead to
SF News Thefts Of BART Cop Uniform, Gear Just Put Our Super Bowl Paranoia Into The Red Zone The FBI has certainly put us on high Super Bowl alert, with warnings of terrorists risks including the actions of "self-radicalized individuals" and "attacks on soft targets like subways." And now that alert
SF News BART Rushing To Replace Fake Surveillance Cameras Ahead Of Planned Transit Bond When it was revealed earlier this month that a majority of BART train surveillance cameras are decoys, we all did a bit of a collective face-palm. BART officials, for their part, seemed shamed
SF News [Update] Person Struck On BART Tracks Near North Berkeley Causing Major Delays A person who was struck and killed by a northbound Richmond train on the "wayside" meaning in the BART trackway at or just north of North Berkeley station is causing major delays on
SF News BART Shooting Victim And Suspect Had Prior Altercation After just over a week of investigation, BART police have determined that the January 9 shooting aboard a crowded BART train was not, after all, a random act of violence. Instead, police have
SF News BART Shooting Victim ID'd As Police Release More Suspect Photos BART Police this afternoon released the name of the previously unidentified victim in Saturday's shooting aboard a train car as it approached the West Oakland BART station. At the same time, BART officials
SF News Frugal Man Brings Fridge On BART In a week marked by a severed foot discovered on the tracks at Downtown Berkeley, a terrifying shooting onboard a train at West Oakland, revelations that many BART train cameras are decoys and
SF News Photo Du Jour: The Guy Who Allegedly Screwed Up Last Night's BART Commute @SFBARTalert @abc7newsBayArea they arrested him and brought.him on our train!!! pic.twitter.com/jEQBQWeOlz— Jason Solstice (@Jason_Solstice) January 15, 2016 BART riders in San Francisco were likely late getting home last
SF News Police Release Photos Of BART Shooting Suspect, Say It Could Have Been Random After All BART police yesterday released photos of the man they believe shot and killed another passenger aboard a crowded BART train this past Saturday. The SFO-bound train was pulling up to the West Oakland
SF News Shooting Aboard BART In West Oakland Was Not Random, Suspect Still At Large According to witnesses aboard a BART train headed to San Francisco on Saturday night just before 8 p.m., right before the doors would open at the West Oakland Station, a "disheveled looking
SF News BART Service Disrupted After Severed Foot Discovered On The Tracks An East Bay BART station was closed for about an hour this morning, after a gruesome discovery was made: A human foot, lying on the tracks. BART spokesperson Jim Allison says that the
SF News Man Shot And Killed On BART At West Oakland Station Body of victim of #BART shooting removed by @ACSOSheriffs coroner at West #Oakland station pic.twitter.com/f2mfr8E8Kx— Matthias Gafni (@mgafni) January 10, 2016 A man was fatally shot on a BART train
