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
SF News BART Creates Video To Remind Riders To Behave Like Decent Human Beings BART's ridership is higher than ever, with a record number 400,000 trips being made on most days (that is, when their trains aren't dangling off the tracks). That's why, they say, they
SF News Why Are BART Cars So Hot? Because They Are Busted. "Is it really hot in here," a fellow BART rider mused aloud during a trip I took from Rockridge to San Francisco last week, "or did I just hit menopause?" While that rider's
SF News [Updated] BART Riders Exposed To Potentially Fatal Disease By UC Berkeley Student BART spokespeople sent a rather alarming message to media Thursday afternoon, saying that East Bay passengers might have been exposed to the measles. According to BART spokesman Jim Allison, "a person infected with
SF News Video: BART Cop Repeatedly Tasers Passenger On the evening of January 29th, riders on a BART train stopped at the San Bruno station watched as an officer repeatedly used a stun gun on a man. Authorities claim the suspect
SF News Yikes: Ship's Anchor May Have Hit Transbay Tube BART trains temporarily stopped service Friday afternoon after a ship's anchor allegedly struck the Transbay Tube. A frightening thought, indeed. "At 8:45 a.m., a ship lost propulsion in the bay, so
SF News BART Delays Sunday Caused By Woman On Tracks An unidentified woman may have jumped in front of a train at Embarcadero Station Sunday evening around 5:30 p.m., and she later had to be freed from underneath the train. She
SF News First BART Cop Ever Killed In Line Of Duty Shot Tuesday In Friendly Fire Incident A BART police sergeant was shot and killed by a fellow officer Tuesday during a routine search of a suspect's apartment in Dublin. The incident marked the first time ever that a BART
Arts & Entertainment Bulges And Butts: Photos From 'No Pants Subway Ride' 2014 Saturday marked the annual 'No Pants Subway' ride around the world, wherein passengers do just that: ride various forms of public transportation sans pantaloons. Fully naked? No. But you could see loads of
SF News Cool New BART Cars To Feature Bike Racks, Chartreuse BART's new railcars (teased in mid 2013) will, ideally, make your commute from splendid downtown San Francisco to unfathomable Pleasanton less harrowing. New bikes racks and differently-colored seating are just a few features
Arts & Entertainment Brace Yourselves: Pantsless People Return To BART This Sunday After a particularly naked 2013, the Bay Area Rapid Transit system will see even more pantsless people this Sunday, when whimsical local transit riders don their most playful underoos and take part in
SF News BART Fares Go Up Today For the first time since July 2012, BART fares are getting hiked a few cents, with the minimum fare within the city at $1.85 starting today. The increase is part of a
SF News BART Board Mulls Banning Strikes; Tensions Over Contract Provisions Still Ongoing A BART board member has suggested that the rail concern put its own measure on the ballot in the next few years to disallow BART worker unions from striking in the event of
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: MacArthur BART In The Sun Sun-kissed tiles at MacArthur BART station, shot by Ariel Dovas.
Arts & Entertainment We Are All This Rat Stuck On A BART Escalator At the beginning of this one-minute YouTube video, we're rooting for a rat stuck on an escalator at Civic Center BART to break free of his endless treadmill of fecal matter. By halfway
SF News NYT Columnist Visits S.F., Is Horrified By Our Public Transit Now that San Francisco is officially the most elite city in America, shouldn't we have a public transportation system that works? Or does our dysfunctional transit system point to an elitism at work
SF News Passengers Sick After BART Train Gets Stuck In Tunnel After experiencing some brake trouble, a BART train is now stuck in the Caldecott Tunnel (AKA the Berkeley Hills Tunnel). Around 10-12 passengers stuck on the train have suffered smoke inhalation. As of
SF News BART Experiencing Delays Due To Loose Sheet Metal In Transbay Tube #BART SF Embarcadero station packed. EB trains being turned around due to debris on tracks. pic.twitter.com/qdAqLM7vTl— John Alston (@JohnAlstonABC7) November 27, 2013 If you're wondering what's holding up your BART
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Look Down! Look Down! At the end of the day, you're another day older... and you've still got to use Muni/BART. Enjoy your weekend, folks. (Photo by Troy Holden.)
SF News BART Service Resumes After Temporary SNAFU After a technical glitch jacked up BART shortly after midnight, service has resumed. Trains are running now at about half capacity, but BART hopes to get service running normally by 8:30. Also,
SF News Fatality On The Tracks At BART El Cerrito Del Norte Service resumed to normal this morning after a three-hour delay as police investigated a death on the tracks at the El Cerrito del Norte BART station. "Police would not say if the dead
SF News How To Bring Your Bike On BART Without Annoying Everybody Else The oppressive era during which BART riders with bicycles were forced to limit their train rides to non-commute hours is finally over. The BART Board of Directors unanimously gave you permission to bring
SF News Fire Beneath Train Causes Big BART Headaches In Orinda A fire that appeared to have started on the tracks underneath a Pittsburg-bound BART train at Orinda station Wednesday evening caused some delays into the morning commute this a.m. because of a
