SF News BART Contemplates Raising Parking Rates BART is taking a survey to see how the public feels about demand-based parking pricing at BART parking lots. The majority of parking lots at BART stations charge only a dollar or two
SF News SF Man Arrested For Kidnapping, Raping Disabled Teen Described by police Chief Howard Jordan as "by far one of the most sickening cases I've seen in my career," 36-year-old Gary Steven Atkinson of San Francisco was arrested this week on multiple
SF News BART To Add Express Trains, Further Expand In Coming Decades Big news coming out of BART today as officials at the rail line discuss the preliminaries of BART Metro, a multibillion-dollar expansion to be complete by 2025 that hopes to accommodate 50 percent
SF News Bay Area Transit Mapped In Trippy Time-Lapse Video Using the same publicly available data that feeds into Google's General Transit Feed Specification, transit-obsessed YouTube user STLTransit has created a trippy time-lapse video showing the movement of every Muni bus, BART train
SF News Here's What's Closed Today Though some of us are at work today (hi!), many get today, the Friday after Thanksgiving, off to shop like crazy people on Black Friday (if you're caught in a Black Friday sandstorm,
SF News If Only BART Had Built the Geary Line What if we could say, without laughing, that the Outer Richmond was the new Mission? That would only really have been possible if BART had gotten it together to build the proposed Geary
SF News Man Who Once Torched Burning Man Takes Own Life at Embarcadero BART Paul Addis, a playwright and performer best known for prematurely setting fire to the man at Burning Man in 2007 (and also did two years jail time for the incident), died Saturday night
SF News Man Tries to Walk to Oakland Through the Transbay Tube, Prompts BART Shutdown A man was captured on BART surveillance cameras Sunday evening around 6:45 p.m. hopping down into the tracks at Embarcadero Station and walking into the Transbay Tube. This caused BART service
SF News BART Breaks Ridership Record! Over this past weekend when absolutely everything was happening all at once in San Francisco, it's no surprise that ridership on BART broke an all-time record. 319,484 people rode BART on Saturday,
SF News Regarding Last Week's Strange Explosive Incident at Civic Center BART They say it was really nothing. Really. It happens about once a year. But somehow, some sort of "metallic debris" ended up on the BART tracks at Civic Center on September 16 and
SF News BART Turns 40; Will Hand Out Free Tickets, Ice Cream Once upon a time in September 1972, just as President Nixon was vehemently denying any involvement with the Watergate break-in and Maude was premiering on television, BART was born. The Bay Area Rapid
SF News BART Agents Fighting Losing War On Rats While we always felt that the Bay Area's subterranean public transit systems were never as overrun with rodents as say the New York City subway, it turns out the folks who are down
SF News Map: BART Opened Its Door 40 Years Ago Today, But Failed To Be This Rad Look, we love BART. It's carpeted and quiet, it allows one to escape from Berkeley with the greatest of ease, and (more importantly) it isn't Muni. The first Bay Area Rapid Transit trains
SF News That Muni/BART Entrance at the Apple Store Will Be Closed for Six Years The Stockton and Ellis entrance/exit from BART and Muni, with the escalator that dumped you off right by the door of the Apple Store, is closing today due to the construction of
SF News Man Struck, Killed By BART Train at Glen Park Station A man who was possibly lying in the East Bay-bound tracks at Glen Park Station on Saturday was struck by a train around 2:30 p.m. and later died of his injuries.
SF News 'Bike Fridays' Pilot Program Allows Bikes On BART All Day Tomorrow and on each Friday in August, BART will launch a pilot program that allow bikes on board its trains at all times of day called "Bike Fridays." Which is to say, the
Arts & Entertainment 'BART Idiot Hall Of Fame' Publicly Shames Ill-Mannered Commuters Recoil in white-hot rage, rule-abiding commuters, as we present to you a batch of horrifying images plucked from the BART Idiot Hall of Fame, a Facebook page that posts photographs of bad behavior
SF News Breaking: Medical Emergency Prompts BART Shutdown [UPDATED] [Update: BART has resumed normal service.] Yikes! Two of the five Bart lines have been shut down this afternoon due to a medical emergency on a train at the Embarcadero station. "The Richmond
SF News Are These Are The Remains Of Your Bicycle? BART Cops Nab Serial Bike Thief BART cops did some real detective work last month, tracking down a prolific bike thief who was also a wanted man in Alameda County. 47-year-old Brett Major of San Francisco was booked on
SF News BART-Crippling Fire Deemed 'Suspicious,' PG&E Experienced More Gas Shutoff Problems As BART continues to deal with the fallout from this morning's disastrous commute, investigators from the Oakland Fire Department have started to shed some light on the literal meltdown that occurred in West
SF News BART To Resume Service By 4 PM. Maybe. [Update] [UPDATE BELOW] After this morning's fire in West Oakland crippled your BART commute, the transit agency says that they plan on restoring service at around 4 p.m. today. Hopefully. "Meanwhile, nearly two
SF News Fire Halts BART Service Between Oakland and S.F. [Updates] A three-alarm fire at a construction site near the West Oakland BART station has shut down the Transbay Tube this morning, completely halting service in both directions between the East Bay and San
SF News BART Escalator Watch 2012: 10 Repaired, 19 To Go Brief updates today as we check in with BART's progress on their promise to repair all those broken down escalators around the system. In their latest press release, the transit agency congratulated itself
