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Unions Scored With 3.8% Wage Increases In BART Negotiations

Details emerged last night about the deal struck between BART management and their workers' unions on Monday, and the unions certainly came close to getting what they wanted by the 11th hour. The

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S.F. Man Throws Hammer At Striking BART Workers

The attitude aimed at striking BART workers, here in the ostensibly liberal Bay Area, was nothing short of depressing. From Silicon Valley's out-of-touch attitude to angry callers on Tuesday morning's Krasny, it brought

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[Updated] BART Strike Is OVER!

UPDATE II: BART now running limited service. BART is now running limited svc.— SFBARTalert (@SFBARTalert) October 22, 2013 UPDATE I: Contrary to what they had initially told us, BART won't be running trains

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BART Rider Spotted Having Sex With Train Seat Acquitted Of Indecent Exposure

28-year-old Leslie Bailey, who was spotted by a BART driver masturbating and grinding his junk into a BART seat back in May, escaped indecent exposure charges last week. Although he was convicted of

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2 BART Workers Killed by Train

Two BART workers were killed after being struck by a moving BART train Saturday afternoon. The victims, whose names have not yet been released, were conducting inspections on a stretch of track north

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BART Unions Offer 'Rider First' Plan, Would Like To Get Trains Running By 10 p.m. [Updated]

As our collective Bay Area Rapid Transit nightmare continues, the BART unions have offered a "Rider First" plan Friday evening, outlining how they would like to get the trains rolling in just five

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Scenes From BART Strike Part 2: Unions' Revenge

Today's BART strike prompted lots of fuss from the media, anguish on Twitter, and even a petition for a ban on BART strikes altogether. More importantly, many commuters are pissed. Rightfully so. Folks

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BART Strike Slightly Snarls Morning Commute

This morning's commute, tinged with a lack of BART due to the strike, saw crowded freeways and slightly more packed bus routes. In an effort to ease the pain caused by management and

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BART Strike Effective At Midnight

Here we go, folks. After failing to reach an agreement, BART workers will go on strike starting at midnight. While the union and BART management could agree on heath care and pension, "the

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BART Rolls On, and So Do Negotiations

Yet again this morning, like yesterday and the day before and the day before that, there is no BART strike, but there could still be one. Everyone's been very mature, and negotiations continued

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Yes, BART Trains Are Running This Morning

Once again, there will be no BART strike today. Trains will run as normal. BART management and unions agree to resume talks. They will also continue to toy with the public. Until next

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No BART Strike Today

Yes, trains will run as usual today. No, the unions and BART management didn't come to an agreement. Yes, talks will resume today. Previously: All BART Strike coverage.

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BART Management Offers 'Take-It-Or-Leave-It' Contract Deal, Unions Pissed

We're facing yet another midnight deadline tonight in the ongoing strike threat, the third in a row since Friday, and BART management have apparently presented their best and "final" offer to the unions

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BART Trains Running This Morning

BART union allowed for talks to continue Monday morning, which means that trains will today. "The unions said late Sunday that they were close to reaching a new labor agreement with the transit

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BART Station Agent Busted For eBay Ticket Racket

While most BART employees are asking for a raise, one station agent came up with an enterprising side hustle in order to make a few extra bucks. Over the past three years, 40-year-old

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BART Strike Averted, At Least Until Monday

Although BART and the two transit unions still couldn't arrive at a deal before last night's midnight deadline, both sides agreed to a three day contract extension to keep the trains running over

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Yep. The BART Strike Is Really Probably Happening. Again. Maybe.

Though the unions declined to issue a 72-hour strike warning earlier this week in what we thought was a positive sign, tensions have mounted and things don't look great as tonight's midnight deadline

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Naked BART Acrobat Yeiner Perez Released From Jail After Four Months

Yeiner Perez, the man who terrorized the 16th Street BART Station back in May and ultimately earned national internet fame when the video of came out, got out of jail yesterday. He'd been

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There Won't Be Another BART Strike This Week (Unless There Is)

Although both sides have yet to agree on a new contract, the unions have decided not to issue a 72-hour strike notice for Friday. It's a good sign that there will not be

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New BART Vision Project Will Determine How It Might Expand Routes In 30 Years

An ongoing new project, dubbed BART Metro Vision, is seeking to outline various pie-in-the-sky ideas for expanding the train system beyond 2025, and current ideas include adding lines to the Sunset and Richmond,

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BART Strike Looms. Again. Commence Fretting.

Remember June? And July? And then August? Yeah, it's happening again. Because 2013 is Groundhog Day when it comes to BART and its unions. The 60-day cooling-off period ends on October 10th, and

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Woman Choked, Robbed By Fling She Met On BART

Police are looking for a 35-40 year old male suspect who reportedly tied up a woman, choked her and stole her belongings after the two met and exchanged numbers on BART earlier this

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MacArthur BART Transit Village Breaks Ground (Again) Next Week

It's finally happening, Oaklanders. The long-awaited, two-decades-in-the-making MacArthur Transit Village, adjacent to the MacArthur BART station, is finally starting residential construction next week. The developer of the first, affordable phase of the construction

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BART Explains Why It Doesn't Offer 24-Hour Service

In light of the Bay Bridge closure, BART service that runs 24 hours remains a pipedream dancing in the heads of almost every public-transportation commuter. Why can't it be this way year-round? Well,

Arts & Entertainment

This Photo Of 1970s BART Workers Is Very, Very Groovy

Those turtlenecks! That scarf! That 'fro! Those poses! This vintage photo from the 1970s shows four female BART employees standing in front of a set of turnstiles, capturing a decidedly different era in