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
SF News 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
SF News 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
SF News [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
SF News 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
SF News 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
SF News 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
SF News 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
