SF News BART Approves New Vinyl Seats, Still Can't Wrap Its Collective Head Around Late-Night Service So, the BART board had a meeting last night. They all said "hooray" to a contract to provide new vinyl seats to replace those nasty-ass blue wool seats that carry the lice and
SF News Man Molests Woman Near Pleasant Hill BART Station A 25-year-old woman walking on Oak Road near Treat Boulevard was grabbed by a man on Wednesday afternoon. The man, it seems, had been following her. As soon as she turned around, he
SF News BART Considering Frequent Rider Perks, Escalator Etiquette Signage With BART fares scheduled to go up next July, the transit agency is mulling over a couple new proposals that could help take the sting out of local riders' Clipper Card balances. Among
SF News BART May Have Figured Out Late-Night Friday Service Promises of late-night service on BART may have taken the backburner at the transit agency while they sort out a few bigger problems popping up and bring the new management up to speed,
SF News Suicide at Colma Station Temporarily Shut Down BART Last Night Around 11:20 p.m. last night a man jumped down from a stairwell onto the BART platform at Colma station and in front of an oncoming train in an apparent suicide, according
Arts & Entertainment Will There Be a BART Protest Today? Here's a handy flowchart to help you figure it out! Print it out, pin it up in your cubicle and remind yourself to frantically check BART's service advisories and twitter hashtags before you
SF News BART Decides Cloth Seats Are No Longer Cool, Switches to Vinyl BART may be tuning out the protesters, but the transit agency is all ears when it comes to the seating situation. After several months of tests and public feedback gathered from Seating Labs
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour Rich on Valencia Street with his first-day BART pass from 1973. Photo by Bhautik Joshi.
SF News BART Protests Continue Tonight Expect possible BART station closures, transit delays, and media overreaction again as yet another protest is scheduled to start at 5 p.m. at the Civic Center station. BART police confirmed to SFist
SF News Shooting Near Balboa Park BART Station An 18-year-old man was shot while sitting in a car near the Balboa BART station on Thursday morning. The incident happened at around 11:15 a.m. He was rushed to a nearby
SF News BART Shooting, Stabbing Reported A 19-year-old man was shot in the hip a little before noon on Wednesday near the 24th Street BART station. "The shooting was reported at 11:59 a.m. in front of a
SF News Anonymous-BART Saga Continues This Evening The unfortunate souls who have to work today can not only enjoy some FOMO, along with commuting on a Sunday schedule, but they can also enjoy yet another BART protest. Fortunately, the protests
SF News New BART General Manager Ready for "Fun" Meet your new BART General Manager, Grace Crunican. She’s replacing the interim GM, Sherwood Wakeman, who is probably really, really happy to be off duty. She comes well-pedigreed from the Clinton Administration
SF News UPDATED: Powell and Civic Center BART Stations Reopen (Again) After another round of BART protests this Monday evening, BART officials closed Civic Center and Powell BART and Muni stations. But! Both the Civic Center and Powell stations have just reopened. UPDATE: Scratch
SF News Police Close BART Stations Due to Protests Police closed Civic Center BART station due to protests. According to SF Appeal, "All the protesters have left the BART platform, which remains closed. Roberts says BART police confirmed that no arrests were
SF News Anonymous to Bring Peaceful Wrath Upon BART on Monday SF Examiner is reporting that Anonymous, the group most famous for giving Scientologists a hard time, is focusing its attention on BART on Monday. As you might have heard, BART police shut down
SF News BART Protest Updates: Demonstration Planned for Civic Center Station at 4:30 P.M. Today [UPDATED] Breaking news regarding threatened protests on BART throughout August: No Justice, No BART, the website rallying point for last month's BART protest has posted details on another demonstration set for today's evening commute.
SF News Heads Up, BART Riders: More Protests Could Spoil Your Commute Last night BART put out a rider alert warning passengers, "Protests may disrupt service as early as Thursday, August 11th" (that'd be today). The protests -- more demonstrations in response to the officer-involved
SF News Behold: We Have Seen BART Trains of the Future and they Feature 'Wipeable' Seats The next phase of BART's Fleet of the Future has arrived and designers from BMW Group Designworks USA unveiled yesterday their concepts for potential replacements to the barfy, 40-year-old fleet. After the transit
SF News Computer Problems Stop All BART Service [Updated] A computer SNAFU of sorts halted all BART service this evening. As of 8:05 pm, BART reports: "BART is experiencing computer problems in the Operations Control Center and service is currently stopped.
SF News Woman Clings to Life After Falling from Civic Center BART Wall A 51-year-old woman sits in the hospital "battling life-threatening injuries" after plummeting from a 15 - 20 feet wall surrounding the Civic Center BART station. The incident happened on Thursday a little before
Arts & Entertainment Video: Interpretive Dancers Delight BART Passengers Muni Diaries alerts us to this very important video: three women doing interpretive dance on a Richmond bound BART train. Fun! And fluid! But... would a little Michael Bennett now and then kill
