SF News WiFi/Cell Service Now Available in Transbay Tube Hallelujah. This Xmas week we're happy to share the news that you can now send texts and surf the web continuously all the way from Balboa Park to West Oakland Station, thanks to
SF News Construction Beginning on BART's Warm Springs Extension At long last, another new leg of the BART system is about to see the light of day, this time on the Fremont line. The Warm Springs extension project, which will extend BART
SF News BART Board May Be Awarding Contract for Oakland Airport Tram BART administrators have recommended awarding a $492 million contract for the construction of a tram link between the Coliseum BART station and the Oakland Airport to a joint venture of Flatiron West Inc.
SF News Partial Derailment Of BART Train In East Bay According to KRON 4 News, a BART train partially derailed between the Lake Merritt and 12th Street BART stations. Passengers are being evacuated out of the tunnel. The derailed train was headed for
SF News Police Need Your Help In Solving BART Shooting Involving Teen Girl Speaking of BART, police are asking for the public's help involving the shooting of a teen girl over the weekend. The incident in question, which happened at around 10:20 p.m. on
SF News Asm. Tom Ammiano On Glass Breaking BART Cop After this weekend's headline-churning incident featuring a BART cop protecting passengers from unruly, drunk Michael Joseph Gibson, 37 -- the twist being that the officer accidentally (?) broke a pane of glass during the
SF News BART Cop Smashes Drunk Dude's Head Through Glass Somebody caught this arrest on video Saturday night: a very obnoxious drunk guy starts screaming and generally making a nuisance of himself -- all while brown-bagging it -- as the train is stopped
SF News Bay Bridge Closure Prompts 24-Hour BART Service This Weekend Due to the Bay Bridge being closed over the weekend, BART will run on a 24-hour schedule for Friday and Saturday. According to BART.gov: BART will offer 24-hour service if the Bay
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink UPDATE: Free Chocolate for BART Commuters Tonight Yesterday, we gave you free hot dogs. Today, we bring your free chocolate. Dark chocolate. Milk chocolate too, hopefully. (Whatever, we still love us some milk chocolate. With caramel. And nougat.) Anyway, Mission
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Free Hot Dogs at Zog's Today for BART Riders Speaking of BART, if you have a BART ticket, TransLink or Transbay pass, you can score a free hot dog today. Zog's, located at the tip of Market and Post, is offering free
SF News Send Us Your BART Pics Another thing regarding today's Bay Bridge closure: please send us you images of your packed BART rides. We imagine today's commute will be hellish, and we'd hate for the world not to see.
misc Relevant Facebook Status Update of the Day Via E.K.: "Dear BART a-holes: When you see a sweaty pregnant woman on a crowded train checking her bloodsugar while trying to balance her bags, standing up, it would be polite to
SF News Muni Riders Have No Manners But BART Riders Do? We just came across this amusing post via The Muni Diaries' counterpart in commute-blogging, The BART Diaries. Apparently this blogger *really* hates Muni, and here are her highly generalized observations as to how
SF News BART Partners With Foursquare Will you become mayor of BART? Now it's possible with BART becoming the first major transit agency to partner with Foursquare, the social media thingy where you check-in at certain locales to gain
SF News BART Cop Trial Moved Out of Alameda County Declaring that he couldn't get a fair trial because of public outrage and we-are-all-Oscar-Grant fetishism, Judge Morris Jacobson ruled that Officer Johannes Mehserle, the BART cop accused of murdering Oscar Grant on New
misc What Could've Been, But Never Was: BART On the GG Bridge Eric Fisher has a great batch of old timey maps and hypothetical San Franciscos. Take, for example, the above GE ad, which shows what BART could've been like if people didn't, well, suck.
SF News Bunch of Blood on Civic Center BART Platform Though small bits of blood on the ground are not a rare sight in the Civic Center/Tenderloin environs, we felt we should mention a not-insignificant amount of spilled plasma being mopped up
misc Photo du Jour 469 "A Shared Laugh" by blarfiejandro. (Anyone know the names of these two? Or the name of their band? Or whatever? If so, let us know. Thanks.)
SF News Security on BART Stepped Up After Al Qaeda Plot in NYC We've always wondered whether BART was as likely a terror target as the New York City subway system, and always suspected that no, it isn't. But you may have noticed some stepped up
SF News BART Thanks Riders With Free Ghirardelli Chocolate on Friday This just in via the trusty funcheapSF.com: From 6 to 9 a.m. on Friday morning, BART riders will receive FREE Ghirardelli Luxe Milk Almond Chocolates and coupon cards at the following
SF News Todos Somos Oscar Grant: Father Sues BART The father of Oscar Grant III, Oscar Grant II, is suing the transit agency that he thinks is responsible for his son's death. According to CBS 5/AP, "Oscar Grant Jr., who is
SF News Amalgamated Transit Union Approves Tentative BART Contract, Finally The possibility of a BART strike has most likely been eliminated, as 80 percent of the members of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555 have voted in favor of BART's tentative agreement, which
SF News Remember: BART to Run All Night During Labor Day Weekend In a move that screams "BART slumber party, everybody!," the Bay Area Rapid Transit system will be open for business all night during the Labor Day Weekend, during most of the time the
SF News Report Released Re: New Year's Shooting By BART Cop Most of you should recall the name of Oscar Grant, who was shot late on New Year's Eve at the Fruitvale BART station by a certain BART cop named Johannes Mehserle. Said shooting
misc Proof the Public Averted BART Strike On Sunday, if you recall, there was no BART strike, a surprise twist that all but crippled Bay Area media. The unanimous (and somewhat iffy) angle on the strike aversion was that you,
