SF News Giant New Illuminated LED Art Thingy Now Adorns Ceiling at Powell Street BART Station Some BART art is freshly installed into the ceiling of the Powell Street station, paying homage to both the architecture of Union Square and the “bubble tiles” of that station’s walls.
SF News Bay Area Transit Planners Fret Over ’Doomsday Scenario’ of Service Cuts Amidst Plummeting Ridership The possibility of “No weekend BART, bus lines cancelled” looms for BART, Muni, Caltrain and the ferries, according to a new report detailing these transit agencies’ plans for dealing with the “death spiral” of a looming fiscal cliff.
SF News BART Wants to Know If You Want More Lines and Late-Night Service, So They’re Running A Survey Though BART is only at 40% of pre-pandemic ridership, they’re looking toward the next phase of expanded service, and you can win a $100 Clipper Card by helping them figure out what riders want.
SF News A Person Jumped Onto Tracks at SF's Balboa Park Station Friday BART's Balboa Park Station in San Francisco temporarily closed on Friday after a man reportedly jumped underneath a train — which brought multiple police officers and firefighters to the scene.
SF News BART Delays Are Worse Than They’ve Been In a Decade, According to BART’s Own Data If you think BART's been bad lately, it’s not your imagination — one in three BART cars has been delayed over the last year, thanks to staffing shortages, aging equipment malfunctioning, and what we euphemistically call “police activity.”
SF News It Is 2022 and BART Has Just Added Credit Payment Capability to Add Fare Machines The Add Fare machines in BART stations have forever been cash-only affairs where you have to subtract from $10 the amount you want to add to get out of a damn station. But, no more!
SF News Check ‘Em Out! We Have Our First Renderings of the Second Transbay Tube A longtime BART fan fantasy is coming to life, as a second Transbay Tube gets its first proposed public renderings, though there are a couple proposals, and it probably won’t be operating until 2040 at the earliest.
SF News BART Broke Down In the Rain Sunday, Transbay Tunnel Shutdown Ensued There were massive delays and a fair bit of chaos in the BART system on Sunday, with some "equipment failures" that happened to coincide with the first rain storm to hit the Bay Area in months.
SF News BART Confirms Motorcyclist Was Flung Onto Oakland Railroad Tracks, Died After Being Struck by Train BART acknowledged that the massive delays Friday in downtown Oakland were due to a person being struck on the railroad tracks. It was later confirmed a motorcyclist was involved in a crash and then fell onto the tracks — before being hit by an oncoming train.
SF News BART to Close Part of Track on Antioch Line Over Three Weekends This Fall For Repairs Residents of Martinez, Pittsburg, and Antioch will be dealing with bus bridges and interrupted service in the coming weeks as BART begins repairs on the section of track that was damaged in a June heatwave.
SF News Photos: Thousands Turn Out to Celebrate BART's 50th Birthday On Saturday, BART fans thronged Lake Merritt Station to attend a big birthday bash for BART's 50th birthday. It was a day filled with themed cakes, a time capsule unveiling, and a "downright disturbing" train replica with a human-like face.
SF News Suspect In Fatal Stabbing at SF BART Station Arrested BART announced that SF police arrested a suspect in the deadly stabbing that happened at the 24th Street Station in San Francisco on August 28.
SF News Wheelchair on BART Tracks In SF Leads to Major, Systemwide Delays A wheelchair that ended up on the tracks at Civic Center Station in San Francisco led to single-tracking of trains through the city on Monday starting just before noon.
SF News Man Fatally Stabbed at SF BART Station, Suspect Still at Large Around 1:40 p.m. Sunday, a man was stabbed at the BART station at 24th and Mission streets in San Francisco; the victim later succumbed to his wounds and the suspect remains at large after fleeing the area.
SF News Woman Allegedly Groped and Punched in Face on BART Near El Cerrito Del Norte Station, Suspect in Custody A 21-year-old San Francisco man is in custody at the Martinez Detention Facility after a Wednesday incident in which he’s accused of groping a woman on an East Bay BART train — and when she told him to stop, he allegedly punched her several times in the face.
Arts & Entertainment BART Seeks Artists to Create Anime-Style Mascots BART has put out a call for illustrators and graphic artists to create "a series of original anime-style mascots" to promote the BART system.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Stabbing at South Hayward BART Station A stabbing at BART's South Hayward Station left one man wounded Wednesday night, SF and California officials mull the use of an older smallpox vaccine for monkeypox, and former classmates of Paul Flores and Kristin Smart are taking the stand in the Smart murder trial.
SF News BART Reinstates Mask Mandate — Effective Immediately One Bay Area transit agency is acknowledging that COVID-19 is still very much with us, as the BART board voted Thursday night to reinstate the mask mandate until at least October 1.
SF News BART Taking Heat Over Handling of Heat-Related Train Derailing In June Before a BART train derailed near Concord last month over “track warping” on a surface that reached 140 degrees, the agency apparently did not follow a process that they’d used in years past to prevent such derailings during extreme heat.
SF News Dead Body on BART Train Leads to Brief Closure of Berryessa Station A deceased male was found on a BART train early Thursday morning when an end-of-day cleaning was occurring on the train parked at Berryessa/North San Jose Station.
SF News BART Fences Off Plazas Around 24th St. Mission Station to Curb Illegal Vendor Marketplace Not satisfied with the city's enforcement efforts so far, BART announced Tuesday that it was fencing off the plazas around 24th Street Mission Station in order to evict the street vendors from the area who have been hawking mostly stolen merchandise.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: BART Service Being Impacted By Fires Vegetation fires in the East Bay were impacting service again Tuesday morning on BART, Laguna Honda Hospital continues to have to relocate 600 patients temporarily, and Apple has frozen hiring in several departments due to economic worries.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: BART Mask Mandate Expires Today BART's mask mandate expires today, a small plane crash in Napa killed two onboard and caused a vegetation fire Sunday, and Elon Musk is looking to delay his Twitter trial until February.
SF News BART Has Hired a Hawk to Manage the Pigeon Population In El Cerrito A hawk who has been given the name Pac-Man is patrolling the area around the El Cerrito del Norte Station, thanks to a contract with a falconer in what's sort of a last-ditch effort — after many failed attempts — to control the pigeon population there.
SF News BART Predictably a Mess on Warriors Parade Day, Clipper Card App Melts Down Too “Take public transit to the Warriors’ championship parade,” they said, “It will be easier,” they said. But then BART trains quit stopping at Embarcadero and Montgomery Street, and the Clipper Card app was on the fritz for many users.
