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
SF News Is There A Subway-Groping Epidemic No One Is Talking About? While we're aware that women get inappropriately hit on and outright harassed on buses and in the streets of San Francisco, we're taking this new, semi-sensational piece by the Bay Citizen with a
SF News Reminder: This Weekend Only, BART Runs 24 Hours Thanks to this weekend's scheduled closure on the East Span of the Bay Bridge, BART will be running trains at all hours for three days over the upcoming long holiday. While the trains
SF News New BART Cars Will Be Expensive, Built Offshore As you may know, BART is getting set to lay out an enormous amount of cash on a new fleet of 775 rail cars, and the price tag keeps going up. Matier &
SF News Family Of Charles Hill Sues BART, And They've Got Oscar Grant's Attorney The family of Charles Hill, the "wobbly drunk" homeless man shot and killed by BART police last July has filed a civil suit against BART seeking monetary damages for the incident. According to
Arts & Entertainment New York v. S.F., via Minimalist Transit Maps Lineposters has just created a series of minimalist transit maps for different cities in the world, including New York, Berlin, and Paris. Thankfully, they've including little old S.F. in the mix, even
SF News Woman Attacked On BART Coliseum Platform A woman reported being attacked by 3 to 4 men on the Oakland BART Coliseum/Oakland Airport station platform this morning during the morning commute, reports KRON 4 Morning News. She received medical
SF News Check Out The Sleek New BART Cars Sharp new designs, working air-condition, and clean seats are on the order for a slew of new test BART cars (an estimated 250 of them) that will go into production this May. The
SF News BART To Run Trains Until 3 a.m. New Year's Day, Still Doing Asinine Skip-Stop Thing Despite not being able to remove their collective heads from their tushes to figure out late-night service on a regular basis, BART has managed to make one good decision for New Year's Eve
SF News Ride Muni Free On New Year's Eve Before you take off for the holidays, remember that come New Year's Eve, you can ride Muni for free. For free? For free. Muni travel, including cable cars, is free of charge from
SF News Attention East Bay Commuters: BART Wants To Walk You Home After taking a lot of crap this year for shutting off cellphones and shooting a guy, the BART Police force is looking to make good this holiday season. In a press release, by
SF News Accused BART Copper Thief Busted In the ongoing Depression Era-esque epidemic of stolen metal, at least one copper thief has been brought down. After nearly running over a suspect with a train last week, BART announced yesterday that
SF News Copper Thieves Are Literally Tearing Apart BART And Vallejo Right after BART officials admitted Tuesday that they have a problem with metal thieves yanking wire off the system's tracks, yet another incident of copper theft was reported. This time, thieves ripped out
Arts & Entertainment Shirtless Bruce Lee Look-alike Rapping On BART [Video] Well, this is fun. Muni Diaries brings our attention to a Bruce Lee look-alike caught rapping freestyle whilst riding a BART train the other day. Also, he has no shirt on thus showing
SF News Apparent Suicide Sunday Afternoon at 24th Street BART Around 3:20 p.m. Sunday afternoon BART closed the 24th Street Mission Station after a man reportedly laid down on the tracks in front of an SFO-bound train. Trains continued to run,
