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
SF News Local Bloggers And Journalists Fix BART Escalators With Words Let's hear it for the Fourth Estate, everybody! After bombarding BART with scores of blog posts, news stories and social media campaigns criticizing the dismal state of the transit agency's fleet of non-functional
Arts & Entertainment Etiquette Week: How to Behave on Public Transportation To kick off National Etiquette Week here at SFist, we're going to tackle a topic which we're sure is close to many of your hearts: The unspoken rules for entering, exiting, and riding
SF News BART Agent Fired For Being Charitable A BART station agent who took pity on an impoverished teen was fired yesterday, on his 66th birthday. Jim Stanek admits that he gave a 16-year-old boy $300 in paid BART tickets because
SF News Behold, The New Vinyl BART Seat! Vic Wong of Mission Mission snapped this shot of a brand baby-slapping new BART seat replete with luxurious vinyl. You like? Well, you're in for a lot more of them as BART rolls
Arts & Entertainment Fatal BART Shooting To Big Screen: Octavia Spencer To Star In Indie Movie About Oscar Grant Killing Academy Award winner Octavia Spencer and former Friday Night Lights actor Michael B. Jordan are in talks to star in Fruitvale, an independent flick about the 2009 New Year's Eve killing of Oscar
SF News Man Occupies BART Track, Almost Dies A fellow named Michael, who may or may not be officially affiliated with the Occupy movement, jumped down onto the BART tracks at 24th Street Station yesterday afternoon and was almost hit by
SF News Excuse Us, BART: WTF With All the Broken Escalators? Is it really so hard to fix an escalator? In the world of BART, apparently, it is. At least one two escalators are currently out of service at Embarcadero Station, and SFist has
Arts & Entertainment Video: Watch New BART Seats Installed In Under 45 seconds Ever wonder how your BART seat sausage* gets made? Well, wonder no longer with this hi-def, time-lapse video, in which an entire BART car goes from completely barren to something you actually might
SF News BART To San Jose Begins Construction Next Month Good news for carless South Bay residents: the Feds pulled through and approved $900 million in funds to finally show BART the way to San Jose. With the funds now guaranteed from the
SF News East Bay BART Train Kills Man A little before 7 p.m. on Monday, a man died after walking on the BART tracks at the MacArthur station. A Richmond-bound train plowed into the unidentified man, killing him instantly. According
