SF News Significant BART, Muni Delays Wednesday Morning [Updated] Wow, did you hear that thunder and see that lightning last night? Pretty cool, huh? Well, not to Muni, as the storm that accompanied nature's light show flooded the Van Ness Muni station
SF News We Could Have BART Service To The Richmond... By 2040 BART is officially studying the possibility of constructing a second Transbay Tube which would take BART service through Alameda, into SoMa, and potentially out to the western part of the city that's currently
SF News BART 'Upstreamers' Frustrate Lazier Commuters At Downtown Stops Presumably denizens of Powell Street BART, the staff of the Chronicle is officially hip to a transportation hack they're dubbing "Upstreaming." That refers to the practice of riding trains back a few stops
SF News Protesters Chain Themselves To BART Trains At West Oakland, Temporarily Halt Transbay Train Service [Updated] Following a quiet Thanksgiving Day in Oakland, protest-wise, a group of 20 to 25 Ferguson-related protesters managed to chain themselves together and chain themselves to two BART trains at West Oakland Station, shutting
SF News Two Apparent BART Suicides Closed Embarcadero And Berkeley Stations Tuesday Night One apparent suicide and an apparent suicide attempt that occurred within two hours of each other shut down both the Downtown Berkeley and Embarcadero stations last night, one during rush hour. The first
SF News Homeless Advocates Protest As BART Continues To Roust Homeless From Powell Station Hallways As we reported back in July, BART recently began cracking down on the homeless situation in Powell Station. In particular they're citing, and rousting, people trying to sleep in the station's long hallways,
SF News Major Delays After Woman Leaps In Front Of BART Train [Updated] BART is experiencing major delays this morning, after a woman was fatally struck by a train. According to BART spokesperson Alicia Trost, service at San Leandro Station was halted on reports of a
SF News BART Service Resumes After Dead Body Is Discovered On Tracks [Updated] BART service was shut down for hours Monday between their East Bay stations of Pleasant Hill and Pittsburg/Bay Point while their police officers investigated reports of "blood and possible human remains" on
SF News Oakland Airport BART Connector Might Be Open By Thanksgiving Right on schedule, BART's Oakland Airport Connector light rail is set to open to the public either by the end of next month, or by early December. The project has been controversial because
SF News BART Realizes Downtown Stations Are Rush-Hour Nightmares, Will Spend $400,000 Studying The Problem Since BART loves to spend money studying its problems, the transit agency is going to be spending $410,000 on a study to figure out what they can do about over-crowding in Embarcadero
SF News BART Service Resumes After Search For Armed Man On Train [Updated] BART service is back on track after an hour-plus-long stoppage at the West Oakland Station, BART officials confirmed Monday morning. At 8 a.m., BART sent an alert reading "There is a major
SF News Getting On BART At Rush Hour A Tighter Squeeze Than Ever Have you been a sweatier, crankier, even more tightly packed sardine during your morning and evening BART commutes lately? Obviously, you're not alone, and part of the problem is BART's aging train fleet,
SF News BART Planning To Beef Up Weekend Overnight Bus Service by Eric Wuestewald Rejoice! After several failed promises and setbacks to late-night BART trains bridging the chasm between San Francisco and East Bay, the Chron is reporting that BART is now planning a
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Watch This 1968 Promotional Video For BART 50 years ago this past June, then-President Lyndon Johnson broke ground on BART. Four years later, according to Jeff Quitney, this promotional video for the transit system was released, cheesy acoustic soundtrack and
SF News Video: Apparently Disturbed Woman Roughed Up By BART Police In Dramatic Scene [Updated] This series of three videos came in via the tip line over the weekend and they appear to show a talkative, allegedly mentally disturbed woman getting some rough treatment at the hands of
SF News Person Is Hit By BART Train, Survives A person who was struck by a BART train Tuesday night is, remarkably, recovering in the hospital following the collision. According to BART spokesperson Jim Allison, "witnesses saw the person jump in front
SF News Rumors Of Intoxicated Person Disrupt Tuesday Morning BART Commute BART riders faced stoppages and delays Tuesday morning, after their police force was eluded by a "possibly intoxicated person." According to BART, at about 8:15 this morning, BART police received "more than
SF News BART Used To Shut Your Cell Phone Off, Now They Want It On And Reporting Crimes Though BART police have come under fire for failing to respond swiftly to station issues like the naked acrobat, they're promising riders that if they use their new crime-reporting app, BART Watch, the
SF News More Delays For BART Riders After 'Routing Issue' In Daly City When will our BART nightmare end? Less than a day after a BART train's deteriorating wheel left thousands stranded, and mere hours after BART got stuck in the Transbay Tube, the transit agency
SF News BART Meltdown Strands Thousands During Tuesday Night Commute BART commuters on the Pittsburg/Bay Point line had a nightmare commute Tuesday evening, after one of the transit agency's trains somehow managed to damage both the track and the third rail, disabling
SF News Unidentified Fumes At West Oakland Cause System-Wide BART Delay [Updated] We're getting reports via a perturbed BART rider that "something has been released" causing passengers to start coughing on the lead car of a BART train at West Oakland Station. Another rider says
SF News Video: Man Does Sit-Ups On BART Anyone who has ever spent more than a half second looking at the carpet on a BART train should know this man is insane. SF Weekly spotted this video of a man in
SF News At Any Time, There's Only One Person Cleaning BART's Downtown Stations Another day, another poopy BART and Muni station story. Today, it's the Civic Center Station stairs that gets the fecal-expose treatment, plus the news that there's only a single person tasked with keeping
SF News BART Thinks Signs Will Keep Cyclists From Flouting Bike Rules Back in December, 2013, when BART ended their ban on bikes on their trains during rush hour, they told cycle-toting riders that there were still some rules that they need to follow. Now,
SF News BART's Summer Of Bomb Threats Continues With West Oakland Scare Tuesday Night It's been a wild month of bomb scares at East Bay BART stations! In the latest incident last night, their service was disrupted for about two hours while a bomb squad investigated a
