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.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: BART Board OKs First Fare Hike In Two Years Downtown SF businesses continue to struggle to stay alive, the BART board just approved a 3.4% fare hike, and beloved Chinatown seafood spot Yuet Lee has reopened after an earthquake retrofit.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Major BART Computer Failure Causes Delays The televised January 6th Committee hearings begin tonight, BART had a major computer meltdown this morning that shut down the system for 30 minutes, and there's no timeframe for the residents of 33 Tehama returning home.
SF News Text Messages Show San Jose Officials Tried to Bury Alleged BART-to-San Jose Cost Overruns In light of text messages becoming public, San Jose and VTA officials are now doing an about-face, calling for scrutiny into cost overruns they’d previously disputed.
SF News BART Just Reinstated Its Mask Mandate Through Mid-July BART is now the lone transit agency in the Bay Area with a mask mandate, after going a week with some flip-flopping on the policy.
SF News [Update] BART Says Hold Up, You Still Need to Wear Masks, Then Reverses Following that federal judge's ruling on Monday that abruptly ended mask mandates on planes and public transit, BART reportedly told its police not to enforce mask-wearing on Tuesday. But now, they've issued a statement similar to the SFMTA's saying masks are still required, for now.
SF News BART Sees Major Disruption After Somone Walked Onto Tracks In Downtown SF Commuters who are newly (again) reliant on BART to get to a physical office had a bear of a morning Tuesday after an unauthorized person wandering the tracks between Embarcadero and Montgomery stations caused a major delay.
SF News BART's Only Black Board Member, Lateefah Simon, Reinstated Two Weeks After Her Announced Removal BART staff members seem to have royally effed up a situation involving board member Lateefah Simon, relating to her residency status in the district she represents.
SF News Retired BART Cars Being Repurposed Into Arcades, Beer Gardens, and More Eight lucky winners have been awarded decommissioned BART cars, as BART announced these retired cars will be transformed into a retro video game arcade, a bike repair shop, and a beer garden at The Oakland A’s stadium.
SF News BART Removes Board Member Lateefah Simon Over Seemingly Minor Residency Dispute The only Black member on the BART board, who had to move because of racial harassment, has been kicked off the board for moving “a stone’s throw” outside of her district. But she says she has the receipts showing BART officials said it was OK for her to move there.
SF News Ferry and BART Ridership See Immediate Spikes as Gas Prices Rise The concurrent rise in gas prices and return to physical workplaces in downtown SF and elsewhere has spurned a sudden and unexpected boom in ridership for both BART and commuter ferries.
SF News Humpday Headlines: BART's Richmond Line Is Still Down Service on BART's Richmond line is suspended for a few more days, Sherri Papini got out of jail on a $120,000 bond, and Oakland native and 'Black Panther' director Ryan Coogler was wrongly detained for a bank robbery in Atlanta.
SF News Gas Prices Jump Above $5/Gal In the Bay Area For the First Time Ever It has happened. Russia's war on Ukraine has pushed gas prices north of $5 for much of the Bay Area and California. And for people who are suddenly commuting back to work... maybe this will bolster BART ridership?
SF News BART to San Jose ‘Likely’ Delayed Until 2034, If We Should Even Live That Long An internal document from the Federal Transit Administration says the BART to San Jose project will take four years longer — and cost twice as much to complete — as Bay Area transit authorities had once estimated.
