SF News Video: Long-Awaited Bay Bridge Implosion Goes Off Without A Hitch This morning at 7:17, the long-awaited implosion of one of the larger piers from the old Bay Bridge went off marvelously as hundreds of microcharges beneath the water sent a massive plume
SF News Sorely Needed Improvements (Like An Actual Ceiling) Bound For Powell BART Planners say they see a light at the end of the tunnel for one beleaguered BART station that, “at its worst... looks like an unsupervised construction site,” according to San Francisco BART director
SF News 16th And Mission BART Plaza 'Overrun' With Rats The 16th and Mission BART Plaza is known around the Bay Area for many reasons — its central location and proximity to Dolores Park, that it plays host to a weekly poetry slam, and
SF News Sorry Everyone, Implosion Of Old Bay Bridge Delayed Sad news for anyone hoping to watch this Saturday's planned implosion of part of the eastern span of the old Bay Bridge (and especially these people who paid $90 per person for an
SF News New Warm Springs BART Extension Might Actually Open This Year BART announced last week that the third rail of the upcoming Warm Springs BART Station south of Fremont Station would be turned on today. The powering on of the rail means that the
SF News 'Curated' Retail Booths Arriving At BART Stations This Week BART trains are, occasionally, delayed and/or too crowded for you to fit on. But for Blinq, a newly founded Bay Area company that's negotiated an exclusive retail deal with the regional transit
SF News BART's New Cars To Have Three Minivan-Like Doors Get ready for a new era, as BART announced yesterday that their forthcoming train cars will be equipped with three doors, eschewing the two-door design to which we're all accustomed. The addition of
SF News BART Train Fills With Smoke As Significant Delays Are Reported In SF Bart train slowly filling with smoke. Happy Monday @sfbart A photo posted by @korov on Oct 26, 2015 at 9:59am PDT It's been a rough Monday for BART, with equipment problems causing
SF News BART Is Not About That Vape Life, Makes Ban Explicit With Signs When they get their heads out of their personal clouds, vapers riding BART are in for a rude awakening. You can't vape while riding on or waiting for Bay Area Rapid Transit, and
SF News BART Service Returning To Normal After Track Alignment Halted SF Service San Francisco BART riders were hit with "major delays" Thursday morning after travel was halted between 24th Street and Colma for about 20 minutes. According to BART, at 10:55 trains stopped traveling
Arts & Entertainment Sports Fans Greeted By Cool Art Celebrating Oakland Teams Fans attending today's Raiders game will catch a glimpse of a colorful piece of art celebrating Oakland and its sports teams. The 150-foot "yarn bomb" is strung on the chain-link fence on the
SF News BART Kills Off Three-Car Trains, Beefs Up Schedule To Ease Over-Crowding In an effort to deal with overstuffed rush-hour trains, BART will, as of Monday, make several schedule changes and do away with those dumb three-car trains. In an official announcement, BART says they
SF News Selfie-Taker On Tracks Snarls BART Commute It's been a week of ups and downs for BART: while they made it through their second weekend of the Transbay Tube closure with nary a hitch, travel this week has been marred
SF News Remember: There's No East Bay-SF BART Service This Weekend BART is 43 in human years, but in public transportation years, it's like a zillion and showing its age. As such, the agency has budgeted $20 million this year, and then $30 million
SF News BART Police To Seek Attempted Murder Charges For Man Who Allegedly Shot Himself On West Oakland Platform Just witnessed a shooting at West Oakland Bart station. 2 police men. 1 black man. pic.twitter.com/GijZ40ARq3— Akshay Dodeja (@dodeja) September 2, 2015 BART police announced Wednesday that they plan on
SF News Man Claims BART Police Shot Him At West Oakland Station Tuesday Night, But Cops Say He Shot Himself He was also tazed. I heard a pop then saw man on ground with 2 cops on him. Man yelled "they shot me.. They shot me" pic.twitter.com/TqLaDMeW4M— Akshay Dodeja (@dodeja)
SF News BART Will Maybe Solve Terrible Screeching Sound In Transbay Tube Once And For All During the weekend closure of the Transbay Tube earlier this month, BART replaced some of the tracks in the tube itself that they say are responsible for the terrible screeching sound that we
SF News Stolen Clipper Cards Can't Be Cancelled Right Away (And You Have to Keep Paying) If you happen to lose your Clipper card, you might still be responsible — until at least midnight — for whatever taps are wracked up on it even while it’s in the thief’s
SF News Suicide Shutters Embarcadero Station For Several Hours Monday Afternoon Montgomery station right now after a @SFBART train hits, kills person at Embarcadero http://t.co/Um3ZmyceCq pic.twitter.com/p5UvlxVoXt— Todd Johnson (@SFBizTodd) August 24, 2015 A man reportedly jumped in front
SF News Why We May Never Have Wi-Fi On Muni Or BART You'll recall how last year BART canceled that contract they had with a wi-fi service provider after five spotty years of service that drew thousands of complaints. Well, commuters and the Chronicle's Michael
SF News Depending On Who You Ask, Your BART Ride Just Got Louder Or Quieter Not only was BART's first (of two) weekend shutdown of the Transbay Tube not as bad as expected, but the transit agency claims that work done during that period has been great for
SF News Weekend BART Closure Not The Disaster It Was Expected To Be The weekend-long interruption of transbay BART service, which allowed BART crews to do some needed track work in and outside of the Transbay Tube, turned out not to create the traffic nightmare that
SF News BART Station Agent Stabbed At Powell And Market A mid-day altercation just outside Powell Street Station ended in injuries for a BART staffer and an arrest for his alleged attacker. According to San Francisco Police Department spokesperson Officer Grace Gatpandan, police
SF News Powell BART Escalator Tries To Eat Lady, Almost Succeeds The escalators leading from Powell Street Station's BART platform to the station aren't as foul as, say, the feces-encrusted escalators that take you from Powell Station to street level. Then again, that poopy
SF News BART Tells Everyone (Not Just Riders) They Should Stay Home During Summer Weekend Shutdowns Though BART has managed to scare up enough buses to shuttle passengers across the bridge during two late-summer weekend service shutdowns, they warn that those buses are only for people who have no
