SF News Cracked Rail Causes Systemwide Bart Delays A cracked rail at the Lake Merritt BART Station will cause delays all say long, possible lasting well into the evening. According to ABC 7, the "hairline crack is inside the Oakland Y
SF News BART Twitter Feed Now WIth .PDF! We have to admit we're not totally displeased with the Bart website redesign. (Yes, we visit www.bart.gov on a fairly regular basis, and what?) It features more "real-time info and interactive
misc "Glide Quietly"?!?!?! Bobster1985 posted this AWESOME video from 1968 about the construction of BART. We had no idea that the conditions underground were so challenging -- apparently the air pressure was so different that the
SF News Man Sporting "Indiana Jones-style Hat" Prompts Bomb Scare, Closes Richmond Bart According to the Gate, le Richmond Bart is closed and "trains are being turned around at El Cerrito Del Norte BART" after a man wearing "an Indiana Jones-style hat got on board an
misc What's Going On Here, Powell Street Station? From the station that brought you Chinese water torture, we now have asbestos warnings and some sort of clear plastic tubing thingy that looks like it appeared in E.T. Fun!
misc Oakland Bart Station Opens After Menacing Backpack Is Found It seems an "unattended backpack" prompted the 12th Street Station in downtown Oakland to temporarily close up shop. A little after 6 a.m. this morning a curious sack was found sitting alone
SF News Bart/Muni Bans Segways What with gas prices soaring, Segways -- those two-wheeled, self-balancing, electric scooter-ish type vehicles -- have seen a boom in sales recently. One Segway sales person in Oakland have seen sales triple over
SF News Sexual Assault Under El Cerrito BART Tracks Parolee Troyshawn Robinson, 20, was arrested for committing a sexual assault "on an El Cerrito pathway underneath the BART tracks," according to the Gate. Robinson allegedly walked up to a male and female
misc More Fun On <del>BART</del> MARTA Remember: always keep those cameras rolling, folks. Also, who knew it was daytime? This seems more like nighttime wackiness. Go figure. Update: Someone 10x brighter than us figured out that this takes place
misc Google Relieves Your Muni Frustrations Unfortunately, for just about any trip we could think up, the driving times were always dramatically shorter than the transit times, so this isn't exactly encouraging people to give up their cars. Le
SF News Adult Sippy Cups All the Rage On Bart Although Peet's Coffee kiosks will open up at lucky BART stations later this year, it seems that you won't be able to drink your morning drug while riding to work. Pft. A heavy
misc Yes! That's Right! You Have a BART! myBART sends out a free weekly email full of entertainment news, ticket giveaways and big discounts to events happening close to BART stations. Holy crap. A transit agency ... that actually provides you with
misc It's Time to Take Translink out Behind the Barn and Shoot it The impossible Translink dream has been stumbling around like a rabid possum for so long that it's sometimes hard to remember how disastrous it's been. But for years, it's always been ready. Just
Arts & Entertainment Vandalism Report Card: High Art Toilet Humor One of the federal buildings in the Tenderloin is thoughtlessly tagged with some thoughtful graffiti. According to livinintheloin: I live right on UN Plaza, so my walk to the BART hole is a
misc Unlike 511.org, We're Never Too Busy for Transit BART will be there to do a presentation, and Caltrain, and NextBus, and the MTC; they'll be joined by a ton of eager software developers and UI designers and social-engineering-types. Will Muni be
SF News CoCo County Bart Stations to Receive ATM-Like Library Book Machines Starting sometime in April, library books will be available at Contra Costa County BART stations via "ATM style lending machines." A new program called Library-a-Go-Go, along with the Contra Costa County Library, will
SF News Well, That Was Fast: Bart Power Restored After the third rail near the South Hayward station lost power at around 10 a.m., affecting Hayward, South Hayward, Union City, and Fremont lines, service has been restored and Bart is running
SF News Hayward-Fremont BART Busted A power outage has affected the Hayward-Fremont Bart line. Hayward, South Hayward, Union City, and Fremont are all feeling the powerlessness, and Bart is "currently working on setting up a bus bridge." In
misc The Maze Catches On Fire.... AGAIN? They don't know the cause of today's fire yet, but it sounds like it's not too far from where the fire in May was -- again on the westbound 80 interchange, but this
Arts & Entertainment Let the Valentine's Day Marketing Machine-Slash-Reasons to Feel Suicidal Because You're Single Commence Next Thursday is Valentine's Day. And the pressure is on, couples of the Bay Area, especially for those of you approaching the seven-year-itch mark. Really, this Valentine's Day could be a make-or-break kind
SF News UC Berkeley Music Professor Hit, Killed By BART Car Jorge Liderman, 50, music theory and composition professor at UC Berkeley, died on Sunday after being hit by a BART car at El Cerrito Plaza. At around 9:30 a.m., it seems,
SF News MacArthur BART Adjacent Shooting Kills One And a day before BART Rider Appreciation, no less? Sad. Yesterday, at around 1:20 p.m. near Apgar Street and Martin Luther King Jr. in Oakland, a 20-year-old man was shot and
misc Remember: BART Gives Away Free Fair Trade Coffee Tomorrow Tomorrow is BART Rider Appreciation / Thank You Day, and you, dear BART riders, will reap the benefits. The people at TransFair USA will give away 50,000 coupons for a shot of fair
