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
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