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,
SF News UPDATE: Strike Canceled, BART and ATU Reach Tentative Deal UPDATE: BART announced at 7 p.m. today that they have come to a temporary agreement with the Amalgamated Transit Union, and tomorrow's strike has been canceled. The following terms will remain in
SF News BART Strike Update and Poll We're chagrined for downplaying this BART strike business earlier this week, but there's just been so many strike threats at this point (going back to mid-June) it's hard not to feel like the
SF News Previously on BART Stike: 1997 View more news videos at: http://www.nbcbayarea.com/video. Remember the BART strike of September 1997? Which lasted an entire week? Turning into a nightmare. Well, what with BART officially announcing a
SF News BART Strike <s>Now Very Possible</s> On Sunday Night The looming BART strike, which has been a verbal threat every since union negotiations crumbled, might be a distinct possibility. More of a distinct possibility, that is, than we thought earlier. This afternoon,
SF News *Double Yawn* ... Hey Everyone, BART Strike Still Might Be On We don't know if this is just a lot of grandstanding by the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555 -- the sole holdout union who rejected BART's latest contract offer -- but in what
SF News Coming Soon: MUNI/BART to Track Your Every Move SF Appeal reports that Muni will be replacing all existing fare gates at its underground Metro stations with TransLink-only fare gates (PDF) by fall of 2010, and it's possible Fast Passes will only
SF News *Yawn*... One BART Union Rejects Contract So, um, this strike thing still looms. Or does it? Wake us when it's over.
SF News BART to Run All Night on Labor Day Weekend Due to Caltrans closing the Bay Bridge in both directions over the upcoming Labor Day weekend for earthquake retrofitting, BART will be running hourly overnight service to 14 stations during the wee hours
SF News BART & Unions Announce Tentative Agreement; Looming Ends After teasing us over and over and over with a strike that promised to cripple public transportation and the lives of many, BART and union leaders came to a contract agreement, tentatively. According
SF News So, Uh, BART Strike Anyone? Believe us when we say we are just as sick as you are of this story/non-story that won't goddamn go away, but ONCE AGAIN, this weekend, there looms the threat of a
SF News BART - Oakland Airport Connector Closer to Reality by Chris Jones Yesterday, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission voted 10 to 3 to approve $140 million to help pay for the long awaited automated people mover between the Oakland Coliseum BART station and
