SF News NYE BART To Run Until 3 AM, Tradition Of Skip-Stop Continues As in years past, BART will extend its New Year's Eve service until 3 a.m. If you're not done celebrating the arrival of 2015 by then, have a great Uber. BART NYE
SF News Oakland Airport Connector Already Experiencing Breakdowns Due To Windblown Trash The three-week-old, $484 million boondoggle fancy tram to the Oakland Airport ran into some major trouble last Friday, during the tail end of the rainpocalypse, shutting down for seven hours due to windblown
SF News Montgomery Station Reopens, Get Ready To Climb Some Stairs [Updated] #Hellastorm, #rainpocalypse, #biblicalrain: take your pick of media nickname for this real big rainstorm you're seeing right now. But whatever you want to call this thing, it claimed two BART stations, at both
SF News Day Around The Bay: Singing Frogs San Francisco has a love-hate relationship with the Pacific chorus frog. [BayNature] This video takes you on a tour of opening night at Chris Cosentino's Cockscomb. [Eater] The Street Sheet got a redesign
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Super Mario BART (Redux) Speaking of vintage arcade games... remember when somebody last year made a rudimentary BART map in the 8-bit style of Super Mario Bros.? Well, now Super Mario enthusiast Robert Bacon, who's made something
SF News BART And AC Transit Launch New And More Frequent Overnight Bus Service This Weekend Good news, all you East Bay party people who enjoy cavorting in the Mission: At a press conference on Tuesday morning BART and AC Transit officials are unveiling the final details of a
SF News Repairs Promised For Some Of BART's Beleaguered Escalators BART's escalators are so bad...How bad are they? They're so bad that it's news when they're fixed, not when they're broken! OK, sorry for the borscht beltiness of that last paragraph, but
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
