SF News False Alarm: BART Directors Don't Want Nat Ford Either Yesterday's rumor from the generally reliable Matier & Ross speculating that Nat Ford was in the running for BART's top spot was apparently way off base. According to a couple members of BART's
SF News Ex-Muni Chief Nat Ford Could Be Ruining BART Next Nat Ford might be out at Muni, but as Chronicle super sleuths Matier and Ross report this morning, the much-loathed golden parachutist could be in the running to fill a vacancy as BART's
SF News BART Protesters Chant, Vandalize and Grind Evening Commute to a Halt Yesterday's protest of the officer-involved shootings of Charles Hill on July 3rd and the 2009 shooting of Oscar Grant drew some 70-80 protestors to Civic Center Station just before the evening rush hour.
SF News Group Demanding BART Police Be Disbanded Might Be Disbanded by BART Police The No Justice, No BART group calling for the complete shutdown of the BART Police Department might run in to some resistance from (wait for it...) the BART Police Department during their protest
SF News Monday: Rally Planned for BART Civic Center Shooting A group called No Justice, No Bart will hold a rally to protest Sunday's officer-involved shooting of Charles Hill, 45, a man with no fixed address. If you recall, two BART cops responded
SF News BART Cops Shoot, Kill 'Wobbly Drunk' at Civic Center Station Sunday A suspect armed with a knife and a broken bottle of booze on the Civic Center station BART platform was shot and killed during a confrontation Sunday night. Two BART police officers responded
SF News Glen Park BART Station Reopens After Train Runs Over Woman After a woman "amazingly" survived being struck by a BART train at Glen Park this morning, the station now reopened. What happened, exactly, you ask? Well: "A train operator pulling into the station
SF News Because of a Difference of an Hour, BART Remains Reluctant About Late-Night Train In all this discussion about possibly adding a "late-night" train on Fridays, BART has really only been proposing adding an eastbound train that departs Embarcadero station one hour later than the existing last
Arts & Entertainment Reminder: BART Beta Testing Lab Today [Updated] As SFist informed you last week, if you want to play a part in determining what BART's new Fleet of the Future will look like, then head over to Justin Herman Plaza today
SF News BART Still Pussy-Footing Around the Late-Night Thing You may recall that in recent months BART broached the topic of extending service by one hour, only on Fridays, and apparently even this extremely cautious but nevertheless welcome proposal has hit a
Arts & Entertainment Help BART Choose New Seating Designs As part of BART's Fleet of the Future project, in which they'll be phasing out their 40-year-old workhorse train cars -- the oldest in the nation -- with sleeker ones, BART wants rider
SF News Google Maps Brings In Real-Time Transit Data Edging ever closer to omnipotence, the big G has added real-time transit data to Google Maps. If you've ever tried to catch a bus or BART train based on Google's arrival in the
SF News Expect BART Delays Through Transbay Tube Sunday and Monday, This Week and Next BART announced in a rather confusing manner that there will be delays through the Transbay Tube this weekend and next. What it boils down to is that passengers traveling between San Francisco/Peninsula
SF News MacArthur BART Transit Village Project Finally Gets Underway 17 years in the making, the MacArthur Transit Village project has finally broken ground, making way for what will be a huge and potentially transformative development in a fairly desolate part of Oakland.
SF News Johannes Mehserle Could Be Out of Jail With Less Than Half His Sentence Served Johannes Mehserle, the former BART cop sentenced to two years in prison for the involuntary manslaughter of Oscar Grant, is scheduled to be back in court for a hearing on June 1st where
SF News Man Booted Off BART After Talking About Weapons of Mass Destruction A man was escorted off a BART train this morning after loudly and wildly talking to passengers about weapons of mass destruction. Egads. "BART officers responded at about 9:20 a.m. to
SF News Peninsula BART Riders Get Reading Material Dispensers The last time we heard about BART teaming up with local libraries to dispense reading material through vending machines was three years ago. Back then, the world was an entirely different place. George
SF News Halleloo: BART May Test Late-Night Service This Fall Lawda mercy, BART's board of directors today will be discussing a proposal to test out "late-night" train service one extra hour of service actually, only on Fridays come September, as part of a
SF News Fatal Escalator Incident Closes Entrance to Powell Street BART Tuesday Yesterday afternoon, a 50-year-old man who witnesses say was attempting to run up the down escalator towards Hallidie Plaza at the Powell Street BART Station suffered an unknown medical condition that caused him
SF News BART Train Strikes Person Near Rockridge Station Late Tuesday Night Just after 10 p.m. last night, a Pittsburg/Bay Point Train struck a person who had apparently been laying on the tracks at the Rockridge BART Station. According to a BART spokesman,
SF News Slight BART Delays This Morning Hope you weren't already running late for your BART commute: East Bay-bound trains have been running on a 10-minute delay through 24th Street Station since just before 9 a.m. due to an
SF News BART Delay Update Please be advised: There is a 15-minute delay on the Fremont Line in the Richmond and Daly City directions due to an equipment problem on a train.
SF News 24th Street Station Problems Slows Morning BART Commute After "recovering from a major problem" at the 24th Street Station, your morning BAR commute will see delays of up to 15 minutes for all East Bay-bound trains. "Service should be back to
SF News No BART Service Between S.F. And Oakland A report of smoke on the tracks at West Oakland Station has prompted a shutdown of BART service between San Francisco and Oakland. "The power must be turned off so mechanics can examine
SF News Federal Budget Proposal Would Help Build Central Subway, BART to San Jose Obama's proposed budget has some numbers in it that local transit-o-philes will either love or lambast, depending on how quickly they want to get from Chinatown to the Ballpark and how they feel
