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
misc Urbane Studies with the Tenderloin Geographic Society, Volume 5: Cheating on BART Bay Area public transportation options often leave much to be desired. Mostly, our various agencies just leave us with the desire to take a different form of transportation. But still we wonder: is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Let's Eat/Drink On BART, Everyone! Or Not. Did you know that it's technically verboten to drink and/or eat on BART? We didn't. OK, we did. And still? We do it all the time. We usually have an entire prix
SF News Bay Area Traffic Not So Bad Lately, But Is That a Good Thing? Several commuting friends of ours have noted that traffic getting into the city over the Bay Bridge is quite light most mornings lately around 8 a.m., and now the Chron informs us
misc BART: Not a Monorail In their official answer to the burning question, "What is a Monorail?" single-track enthusiasts at The Monorail Society (apparently a real thing) would like to clear up some common misconceptions about monorails. Like
SF News Photos: "No Pants" BART Ride 2011 On a glacial Sunday morning, many randy riders headed to the Powell Street BART station sans pants for the annual "No Pants" BART Ride. Here are some images from Sunday morning's scandalous ride.
misc Pantsless BART Riders Return this Sunday After 10 years of the annual "No Pants" BART Ride, we're not entirely sure we consider the event improvisation anymore, but it's still loosely related to flashmob enthusiasts Improv Everywhere so we suppose
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Glen Park Farmers Market Might Be Coming To BART Glen Park, San Francisco's hidden neighborhood of unabashed charm and twee, might finally get a farmers market. And it'll be extraordinarily accessible via BART. "After a year of debate about where to put
SF News Cyclists, Please Stop Taking The Escalators Reminder: We know San Francisco is turning into a playground for cyclists - and with good reason, since they are clearly doing God's work - but please do not haul your green machine
SF News Take BART Until 3 a.m. on New Year's Day BART will extend its service until 3 a.m. on New Year's Day to accommodate the large number of people attending the New Year's Eve fireworks show along Embarcadero. Trains will be running
SF News BART Running Smoothly After Yesterday's Service Disruption BART trains are now running on schedule this morning after service was disrupted along the Transbay Tube yesterday. Smoke was reported at around 1:45 p.m. near the Oakland end. After a
SF News BART Passenger Gets Leg Caught Between Train and Platform Bay City News tells us (via SF Appeal) that on Saturday evening, a BART passenger got his leg stuck between the train and the platform when exiting at the Walnut Creek station. It
