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
SF News BART Service Resumes Following Early-Morning Train Fire [Updated] San Leandro Bart station- it's closed! Everyone who walks up and sees this- well, their jaw drops. #nowwhat? pic.twitter.com/VNisftVEr8— Amy Hollyfield (@amyhollyfield) July 9, 2015 BART service has resumed following
SF News BART May Finally Reopen Public Restrooms Shut Since 9/11 Fourteen years on, the BART board is mulling a proposal to remodel and reopen 10 underground BART station restrooms, all of which have remained closed to the public since the week of September
Arts & Entertainment Watch This Guy Play A Surprisingly Solid Game Of Tennis In Powell Station I thought I'd seen all there was to see at a @SFBART station. Then I saw this guy play tennis at Powell. #OnBoardSF pic.twitter.com/yw83pTvvA4— Nick Josefowitz (@josefow) June 18, 2015
SF News BART Still Isn't Sure How You'll Get Across The Bay During This Summer's Weekend Shutdowns The news for BART riders just keeps getting worse and worse. The transit system's persistent issues with their aging tracks cause near-daily disruptions and delays, weekend East Bay riders need to switch to
SF News Close Your Eyes And Imagine If This Fantasy Muni Map Were Real Dreams of more northerly BART routes, forever doomed when Marin County backed out of the regional system plan in the 1970s, not to mention more westerly underground routes to the avenues, are still
SF News BART Shutting Down All East Bay-SF Service During Two Late-Summer Weekends You know all the urgent track maintenance BART has been talking about that has to get done? Well, now the transit agency is announcing that it will be shutting down all service between
Arts & Entertainment 55-Foot Burning Man Sculpture To Arrive At San Leandro BART Station While sculptor Marco Cochrane is at work on his third monumental female figure for Burning Man 2015, one of his earlier works just landed a new, permanent home. The City of San Leandro
SF News Powell And Civic Center BART Entrances To Get New Glass Canopy Things The concrete-walled entrances to BART stations along Market Street are set to get makeovers over the next decade or so, as the Chron's John King explains in an impatient tone today. He's impatient,
SF News Day Around The Bay: Faulty Manufacturing Blamed For Broken BART Rail Following a threat of a lawsuit, the Haight Street McDonalds gets rent-a-cops. [Hoodline] BART blames a manufacturing defect, hydrogen bubbles in fact, for the piece of rail that broke the other week. [CBS
SF News System-Wide BART Delays Reported Due To Equipment Problem In East Bay BART commuters this morning ran up against some serious delays, reportedly up to an hour, especially for those trying to get between the East Bay and SF. Delays that were initially announced as
SF News No One Knows Why That (Fairly New) BART Rail Blew Apart Wednesday Exclusive video: CPUC inspectors arrive to examine broken BART track, hitch a ride on repair train. pic.twitter.com/it3YedCglZ— Doug Sovern (@SovernNation) May 6, 2015 Days after a BART rail between Civic
SF News Uber Surged Big-Time During Wednesday's BART Delays Uber has promised not to gouge "surge" their ride prices during storms and other emergencies, a promise it may not always be keeping. But during a BART shitstorm such as yesterday's track deformity
SF News [Updates] 'Deformity' Causes Major BART Delays Throughout San Francisco In case you'd forgotten that BART's tracks are in terrible, terrible shape, a snarled commute in SF today is here to remind you — a "reported deformity" on the tracks between Civic Center and
