SF News BART Reveals Details of How Train Derailed and Caught Fire on New Year’s Day The shocking Monday morning BART train derailment that left nine people injured and a train on fire seemed to be a combination of mechanical failures and human error, and that $2.2 million “Fleet of the Future” train will be out of commission for a while.
SF News New Year's Day Links: BART Train Derails, Injuring Nine A person was struck and killed by a car doing donuts in Oakland on New Year's Eve; a BART train partially derailed outside Orinda Station Monday morning, sparking a fire and injuring nine passengers; and another storm is heading our way.
SF News What You Need to Know About Bay Area Public Transit Changes for New Year’s Eve Muni and AC Transit are offering free rides, while BART is extending its operating hours.
SF News BART Unveils Their Supposedly ‘Evasion-Proof’ Fare Gates at West Oakland Station BART’s four-year, $90 million quest for an “evasion-proof” fare gate is now a working reality, at one station at least, as the West Oakland station is now the first out of the gate with the new gates that will soon be installed systemwide.
SF News BART Police Arrest Man Menacing Riders With AR-15-Style Rifle on Christmas Eve It was a wild Christmas Eve on BART, as a man with a semi-automatic rifle was “bothering other riders,” until BART Police arrested him and had him hauled off to Santa Rita Jail.
SF News Smoke on Tracks at 24th Street Station Causes Major BART Delays An equipment problem caused the tracks to smoke at 24th Street station and made a mess of the Monday morning commute, and while the equipment problem is resolved, train delays continue into Monday afternoon.
SF News Berkeley Advocates for Homeless Up In Arms Over Roped-Off ‘For Customers Only’ Section at BART Plaza A very Berkeley story out of Berkeley this week, as a little restaurant plaza outside the BART station has roped off one area with signage saying “For Customers Only,” and advocates for the homeless population are furious over the move.
SF News BART Police Identify Man Who Got Into Transbay Tube, Causing Two-Hour Systemwide Shutdown It's not entirely clear why it took two hours to resolve the situation Wednesday night that left downtown SF BART stations massively crowded, and the entire system paralyzed. But BART police have identified the suspect.
SF News Heads Up: BART Trains Won’t Run Though Glen Park, Balboa Park, or Daly City Stations This Weekend Inconveniences and delays of up to 30 minutes loom this weekend for BART riders, as they’re shutting down train service between the Glen Park and Daly City stations and offering buses instead, but the ripple effects will affect riders at other stations too.
SF News BART and Muni Getting Huge State Bailout to the Tune of $661M, But It Comes With Conditions After two years of talk of fiscal cliffs and the threat of service cuts, BART and the SFMTA have been thrown a lifeline in the form of state and regional transit subsidies — and the two agencies will be taking the lion's share of the money allocated to the Bay Area.
SF News BART Unveils Prototype for New ‘Evasion-Proof’ Gates, Which… Might Actually Be Evasion-Proof? BART’s $90 million, four-year Holy Grail quest for an evasion-proof fare gate appears to be in its home stretch, as they’ve unveiled the “overall structure” of the current version of the new gates that are allegedly debuting by the end of the year.
SF News Suspected Stabbing at 24th Street BART Plaza Leaves One Injured Saturday A fight between two groups at the 24th Street BART plaza on Saturday afternoon resulted in an apparent stabbing injury and train delays.
SF News BART Paper Tickets Are Going Away — For Real This Time — On November 30 It's the second time in three years that we've been told to "say goodbye" to paper tickets on the BART system. But after re-introducing them last year, the paper tickets are really going away this time.
SF News Stabbing On BART Train In Oakland Leaves One Injured There was a stabbing overnight on a BART train in Oakland that appears to have been unprovoked, and the incident is sure to add to public perception that the trains are unsafe.
SF News Finally! Clipper Card System Will Let You Just Scan Debit and Credit Cards Directly, Starting Next Year You’ll be able to just swipe your debit or credit card to ride BART, Muni, and other Bay Area transit systems, eliminating the need for a Clipper Card, in a major upgrade scheduled for summer 2024.
SF News BART’s Revamped Schedule to Start Monday, Promising Shorter Waits and Shorter Trains The transit agency is rolling out long-awaited service changes to enhance rider experiences starting September 11 — here's what's new.
SF News Man Killed at Lake Merritt BART Station Allegedly Because of Fight Over E-Scooter A fatal shooting last week outside the Lake Merritt BART station was apparently the result of a fight over an e-scooter, according to BART Police.
SF News Fatal Shooting Leaves One Dead at Lake Merritt BART Station There was a fatal shooting Tuesday afternoon outside the Lake Merritt BART station in Oakland, adding to an already violent summer in Oakland.
SF News BART Awards Contract For 775 New Supposedly Evasion-Proof Replacement Fare Gates The West Oakland BART station will get the first batch of futuristic and allegedly evasion-proof fare gates this December, and the whole system will have them by 2025, as the transit agency hopes to stop chronic fare evasion.
SF News BART Plagued By Multiple Problems Monday, Including Fire at Civic Center Station The BART system, which was already dealing with delays from an equipment issue in the East Bay Monday morning, was hit with multiple problems this morning including a disabled train, and police and fire activity at Civic Center.
SF News BART’s Answer to Its Financial Woes Is Putting More Police on Trains and Giving Officers Major Raises A new agreement for BART police officers gives them substantial pay bumps of 20% and mandates at least half of the transit police department's officers patrol trains, amid the transit system's fiscal deficit.
SF News BART Ridership Hits Post-Pandemic High, Mostly Thanks to A's Fans The Giants were on the road Tuesday night, but Oakland A's fans came out in force, packing both the Coliseum and BART trains in order to tell owner John Fisher to sell the team and let it stay in Oakland.
SF News Day Around the Bay: CA Legislature Comes Up With $1.1B Transit Bailout First Lady Jill Biden will be in SF on Tuesday; the CA Legislature has come up with $1.1B in the new budget to bail out transit agencies; and there is finally some movement on the burned-out building at 3300 Mission Street.
SF News Day Around the Bay: BART Delayed By Widespread Police Activity There were widespread delays on BART Wed. afternoon due to an equipment problem and all kinds of police activity; a car ignited a brush fire on Highway 37; and Meta is planning 1,100 more local layoffs.
SF News BART Police Making Lots More Arrests Since Beefing Up Police Force This Year BART claims that March and April of this year saw “two of its highest monthly arrest totals since the arrival of the pandemic,” and is engaging in a PR campaign that hopes more people getting arrested on BART will make riders more comfortable coming back on BART.
