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Man Killed at Lake Merritt BART Station Allegedly Because of Fight Over E-Scooter

A fatal shooting last week outside the Lake Merritt BART station was apparently the result of a fight over an e-scooter, according to BART Police.

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Fatal Shooting Leaves One Dead at Lake Merritt BART Station

There was a fatal shooting Tuesday afternoon outside the Lake Merritt BART station in Oakland, adding to an already violent summer in Oakland.

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BART Awards Contract For 775 New Supposedly Evasion-Proof Replacement Fare Gates

The West Oakland BART station will get the first batch of futuristic and allegedly evasion-proof fare gates this December, and the whole system will have them by 2025, as the transit agency hopes to stop chronic fare evasion.

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BART Plagued By Multiple Problems Monday, Including Fire at Civic Center Station

The BART system, which was already dealing with delays from an equipment issue in the East Bay Monday morning, was hit with multiple problems this morning including a disabled train, and police and fire activity at Civic Center.

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BART’s Answer to Its Financial Woes Is Putting More Police on Trains and Giving Officers Major Raises

A new agreement for BART police officers gives them substantial pay bumps of 20% and mandates at least half of the transit police department's officers patrol trains, amid the transit system's fiscal deficit.

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BART Ridership Hits Post-Pandemic High, Mostly Thanks to A's Fans

The Giants were on the road Tuesday night, but Oakland A's fans came out in force, packing both the Coliseum and BART trains in order to tell owner John Fisher to sell the team and let it stay in Oakland.

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Day Around the Bay: CA Legislature Comes Up With $1.1B Transit Bailout

First Lady Jill Biden will be in SF on Tuesday; the CA Legislature has come up with $1.1B in the new budget to bail out transit agencies; and there is finally some movement on the burned-out building at 3300 Mission Street.

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Day Around the Bay: BART Delayed By Widespread Police Activity

There were widespread delays on BART Wed. afternoon due to an equipment problem and all kinds of police activity; a car ignited a brush fire on Highway 37; and Meta is planning 1,100 more local layoffs.

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BART Police Making Lots More Arrests Since Beefing Up Police Force This Year

BART claims that March and April of this year saw “two of its highest monthly arrest totals since the arrival of the pandemic,” and is engaging in a PR campaign that hopes more people getting arrested on BART will make riders more comfortable coming back on BART.

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Pickup Truck Collides With BART Train In Oakland, Three Injured Including Train Operator

An accident occurred Monday night near E. 8th Street in Oakland in which a pickup truck crashed through a fence and collided with a northbound BART train between Fruitvale and Lake Merritt stations.

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BART, Caltrain Running Special Early Trains This Sunday For Bay to Breakers

With Bay to Breakers starting at 8 a.m. Sunday, BART and Caltrain are both firing up special fleets of early morning trains for the occasion so “runners” from all over the Bay Area can be at the starting line in time for the race.

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Gas Thief Accidentally Torches Six Cars In Antioch eBART Parking Lot

A suspect apparently trying to steal gas by way of an electric drill caused a fire Thursday afternoon that spread to six cars in the eBART parking lot in Antioch.

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Scary Situation On BART As Lunatic Slashes Passenger With Meat Cleaver

Just a day after we heard survey results showing that Bay Area residents largely don't feel safe on BART anymore, a crazed suspect pacing a train in the Transbay Tube apparently slashed a man with a meat cleaver.

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People Are Ditching BART Because of Safety and Uncleanliness, Says Pro-Business Group Poll

A new poll suggests that it’s not remote work, but safety and lack of cleanliness keeping people off of BART. But the survey is from a business group with a history of somewhat dubious polls.

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BART Has Local Kids With Autism Doing Station Announcements for Autism Acceptance Month

You might be hearing some new voices on your BART station announcements this month, as a group of Bay Area youngsters with autism are the stars of a new series of BART public-address bits.

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BART Unveils Renderings of Its New $90 Million, Allegedly Evasion-Proof Fare Gates, Which Have Spikes

Think you can hop these upcoming new supposedly evasion-proof BART fare gates? Before you jump, realize they’re going to have bird-repellent spikes designed to be very hostile toward gate-hoppers’ hands.

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BART's Chronic Delays Caused by New Trains' Braking Glitch in Wet Weather

The new trains' automatic control system applies fail-safe brakes when sensors detect spinning wheels on wet tracks, causing all the wheels to go flat and suffer uneven wear — and no permanent fix is in sight.

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BART Board Moves Forward On $90 Million (Supposedly) Evasion-Proof Fare Gate Project

Despite so-called “fiscal cliff” concerns, BART is embarking on a $90 million project to replace all their fare gates with new jump-proof “next generation” models, and got a recommendation to move ahead on the first $47 million phase of this at Thursday’s board meeting.

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Suspect Arrested In Pistol-Whipping and Shooting On BART Train

A suspect is in custody for the March 16 pistol-whipping incident onboard a BART train that resulted in a shot being fired in the train car.

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Shot Fired During Argument On BART Train, Bullet Grazes Victim

In another story that is unlikely to improve ridership on BART, a man was grazed by a bullet on a BART train Thursday night, after he was being pistol-whipped by another man and the gun went off.

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Plans For That Second Transbay Tube May Be Getting Shelved Over High Cost, Low Ridership

The latest grand plan for a second Transbay Tube would have cost at least $29 billion and wouldn’t have been completed until around 2040, and now regional transit planners are backing off the idea of building that new tube.

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BART Beefing Up Police Presence In Hopes It Will Bring Riders Back

BART Police say “We are going to saturate every train and hit every train in Oakland and San Francisco” as the BART board of directors is on the verge of agreeing to more than double the presence of officers.

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[Update] Fire Near Tracks Has Halted East Bay BART Service Between Coliseum and Fruitvale Stations

A Tuesday morning fire near the tracks between the Coliseum and Fruitvale stations has reportedly been extinguished, but its aftermath is still disrupting service on the Berryessa line between those two East Bay stations.

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Possible HazMat Situation Disrupts BART Service at Balboa Park, Daly City, and Colma Stations

An apparent butane or propane leak that seems unrelated to BART shut down a few BART stations Friday morning, and it sounds like all traffic on several Daly City thoroughfares is completely shut down as well.

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BART San Jose Extension Gets $375 Million State Grant, Expects To Start Construction Next Year

Another big pile of state money is kickstarting BART’s extension into downtown San Jose and Santa Clara, which will come in handy, as authorities now admit the total project cost will indeed be about $9 billion.

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