SF News Make-A-Wish Kid Picks Riding BART As His Ultimate Dream Come True If your evening commute involves sweating on a crowded BART train, this story might make you think twice before grumbling about it. A wheelchair-bound 13-year-old boy with cerebral palsy recently rode BART for
SF News BART Cops Will Now Begin Harassing Homeless People In Powell Station Per a press release from BART police regarding "evacuation safety," BART has launched a policy effective today that will no longer permit anyone to lie down or even sit with feet extended in
SF News The Legal Costs Of The Oscar Grant Shooting, By The Numbers As noted a few weeks ago, Johannes Mehserle, the BART cop who shot and killed Oscar Grant III on New Year's Day 2009, was back in court for yet another civil case related
SF News BART Wants An Extreme Powell Street Station Makeover: Photos You know BART's Powell Street Station. But maybe you won't know it for long, as BART has set their Station Modernization Program sights on its vast, white, sprawl. That's right, it's time for
SF News Soiled Embarcadero Station Rope Sculpture To Be Removed After 40 Years After 40 years spent collecting dust, dirt and brake grime from BART trains, Barbara Shawcroft's 70s-era sculpture "Legs" will finally walk its way out of Embarcadero Station. The 50-foot, three and a half-ton
SF News 'Obstruction On Track' Temporarily Closes BART Between S.F. And East Bay [Updated] According to an alert from BART, there will be no train service between San Francisco and the East Bay for at least a half an hour around Noon on Tuesday due to an
SF News Person Struck And Killed By BART Train At Pleasant Hill Station Pleasant Hill BART station is currently closed due to "a major medical emergency" according to the transit agency. Bay City News reports a person was struck and killed by a train at the
SF News New BART Regulations Could Mean Even Less Service We've long since stopped holding our breath for late-night BART service, even despite local pols' best efforts, and now it seems new BART safety regulations could actually make the agency head in the
SF News BART Bike Sting Brings Down Notorious East Bay Bike Thief Like their counterparts in the SF, BART cops have been running bait bike sting operations in an attempt to thwart the cowardly types who steal bikes from outside the East Bay BART stations.
SF News Etiquette Week: How To Bring Your Backpack On Muni/BART It seems that not enough people have received the message that carrying a backpack on public transit, or in any crowded urban setting, is not the same as carrying a backpack on a
SF News BART Connector To The Oakland Airport, By The Numbers 3.2: The number of miles BART's Oakland Airport Connector, an elevated transit line that will run from the Coliseum/Oakland Airport BART Station to the Oakland Airport, will travel 4: The number
SF News Yet Another Proposal To Give Us Late Night Transit Hope At Tuesday's Board of Supervisors meeting, D8 supe Scott Wiener introduced the latest plan to try improving the BART's and Muni's after-hours transit options. This isn't the first time we've heard that one
SF News Man Spotted Having Sex With BART Seat Convicted For Lewdness According to a state appeals court, 28-year-old transit lover Leslie Bailey was rightfully convicted of misdemeanor lewd acts when he was spotted getting busy with a BART seat last year. Bailey was cleared
SF News New BART Seats Are Too Seahawks-esque, Say Niners Fans Local fans of football and public transit are not excited about the BART cars of the future, apparently. As some have pointed out, those blue and chartreuse seats are just a little too
SF News It's Just A Drill: BART Conducting Security Exercises Friday If you see cops, TSA agents, and other law enforcement officers scrambling during your morning commute Friday, don't worry, it's (probably) not a disaster. According to BART spokesperson Luna Salaver, on Friday morning,
SF News Beware Of Bed Bugs On BART While BART insists that reports of bed bugs on its trains are very rare, a BART train was taken out of service last Thursday for cleaning after a passenger reported finding bed bugs
Arts & Entertainment BART Car Of The Future Will Tour The Bay Area This Month BART has been teasing riders with mock-ups and renderings ever since the Fleet of the Future was announced back in 2012. Now the transit agency is ready to unveil their final working model
Arts & Entertainment Map: San Francisco, Arranged By Transit Time Today in maps: Peter Dunn of Stone Brown Design has created this time-scaled map of Muni, BART and Caltrain, all arranged by how long it would take you to get to commute to
SF News Woman Recovers Stolen Bike Via Sting With Help Of BART Police A woman whose $900 bike was stolen from one of the racks outside Macarthur Station in Oakland managed to get it back with some help from BART police, and get the thief arrested.
SF News BART Police Creating Smartphone App For Reporting Bad Behavior Dirty business is not uncommon on BART, unfortunately. So BART Police would like to make it easier for you, the smartphone-carrying, eagle-eyed public transit rider to report any crimes, illegal activity, or suspicious
SF News Video: BART Rider Harasses Passengers, Gropes Woman Around 7:30 p.m. Monday night, a man headed south on BART near the Colma Station made his presence known via a boom box loud enough to be heard over the notoriously
SF News Family Members Of Measles-Infected BART Rider Fall Ill Remember all the frustration you expressed over the possibly nonvaccinating family of BART/UC Berkeley's Measles Patient Zero? Well, it looks like you might have been proven right, as Contra Costa County health
SF News BART Experiencing Major Delays Due To Police Activity [Updates] They had to "key open" the front door to let people off BART. Still shut down pic.twitter.com/LW5EB21vLM— Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) February 27, 2014 BART trains in both directions were sacked
