SF News Frontline BART Worker Tests Positive for COVID-19 A third BART employee, this time a frontline worker, has tested positive for COVID-19, and BART says that the worker did not interact "closely" with riders, had been masked on the job, and has been sent home to self-isolate.
SF News BART's 15-Point 'Welcome Back' Plan Includes Personal Hand Straps, Electrostatic Fog Treatments As BART prepares for some of its pre-pandemic ridership to return, agency management today unveiled a 15-point plan to keep riders as safe and as socially distanced as possible on a public transit system.
SF News Day Around the Bay: BART Announces June Openings for New South Bay Stations SF health director Dr. Grant Colfax warns that the city will be battling the coronavirus for up to two years, a new small outbreak has been found at Laguna Honda Hospital, and BART is finally opening the Milpitas and San Jose Berryessa stations in June.
SF Politics Trump Spends Morning Tweeting About Transit Funds That Were Announced a Month Ago In an effort to change the conversation away from his moronic decision to take the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine to fend off the coronavirus, President Trump was on Twitter this morning "announcing" month-old transit funding allocations from the CARES Act.
SF News BART's Morning Rush Hour Is Now 5:30 to 7 a.m., Because Nurses The only people riding BART these days, for the most part, are essential workers like grocery store clerks and healthcare personnel, and they go to work earlier than most of us.
SF News BART Will Keep Running During Shelter-In-Place Period As of today, BART is committing to keeping its trains running during the three-week mandatory shelter-in-place order in the Bay Area in order to help residents to do essential travel.
SF News Dear BART, If You Want More Riders on Nights and Weekends, Stop Being Filthy, Slow, and Scary BART can't just wave a magic wand and get riders back as its aging trains and tracks make for some truly unpleasant — if not dangerous — experiences during late-night and off hours.
SF News Police Put BART Chain-Attack Suspect On Psychiatric Hold A suspect who allegedly attacked a fellow BART passenger with a chain, unprovoked, on board a train in Oakland Tuesday evening has been arrested, but not yet publicly identified.
SF News BART Police Seek Suspect Who Attacked Rider With Chain Just one day into BART's new Ambassador program, a BART rider was attacked and injured by a suspect on board a Daly City-bound train Tuesday evening.
SF News BART Adds Ambassadors, Switches Up Some Train Schedules Starting Today Today is the first day for the pilot BART Ambassadors program, so commuters may begin seeing the unarmed outreach personnel patrolling trains in search of quality-of-life infractions. Also, some train schedules are shifting for commuters between SF and the East Bay.
SF News BART To Change Services Starting Tomorrow, Significant Updates For Yellow And Green Lines Brace yourself for longer headway times between BART trains on Sundays, certain rail car services ending at Concord instead of Pleasant Hill, and a host of other noteworthy adjustments the rapid transit agency will kick off Monday morning.
SF News Of All SF BART Stations, You're Most Likely To Have Your Phone Stolen at Balboa Park Get off your phones! Cellphone and laptop thefts in the BART system were up 32 percent in 2019 over the previous year, and in San Francisco the stations where the most thefts occurred were Balboa Park and 24th Street/Mission.
SF News BART Police Puts 12 Officers On Regular Evening Train-Patrol Duty For First Time BART Police are going to be regularly patrolling trains on nights and weekends as part of a new program that launched Monday, and the news has some regular riders going "Really?... Now?"
SF News BART Will Spend $800M To Modernize Train Control System Timelier service schedules? Added trips through the Transbay Tube? A far more reliable BART commute? All that’s promised (and more) to come from the rapid transit agency spending a mind-boggling $798M to update their aged train control system.
SF News Day Around the Bay: BART Board Unanimously Approves Ambassador Program An SF supervisor is crying for more trash cans on the street, Sen. Dianne Feinstein is walking back some comments critical of Pelosi, and some burglars snagged $83K in jewelry from the Bloomingdale's in Palo Alto.
SF News BART Might Finally Have Seamless Wi-Fi, In a Few Years In addition to voting on that "ambassador" program on Thursday, BART's board of directors will be voting on a four-phase, multi-year plan to finally make good on a decade-old promise to provide systemwide wi-fi.
SF News BART Likely to Launch Unarmed 'Ambassador' Program To Address Quality-of-Life Complaints The BART Board of Directors is inching closer to approving a program that's been in the works nearly two years in which unarmed "ambassadors" will roam trains cleaning up needles and other "biohazards" and providing outreach to the homeless.
SF News Oakland Man Accused Of Attempted Murder In Attack on Homeless Woman at Richmond BART Station A man was arrested Sunday on suspicion of attempted murder following an attack on a homeless woman on the BART platform at Richmond Station.
SF News Here's How To Safely Get Around The Bay Area on New Year's Eve From free Muni and Caltrain rides to discounted cabs, here's how to traverse our slice of Northern California during the last New Year's Eve of this decade.
SF News BART Director Stirs the Pot With Op-Ed Accusing Management and Fellow Directors of Negligence On Safety BART director Debora Allen, has been an outspoken critic of new General Manager Bob Powers and some of her fellow directors in recent weeks. And last week's stabbing on board a train in South Hayward has pushed her to pen a scathing opinion piece in the East Bay Times.
SF News Transient Man Accused In 2018 BART Stabbing Pleads Insanity In court on Friday, 29-year-old John Lee Cowell pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity in the stabbing death of Nia Wilson at the MacArthur BART station in July 2018.
SF News BART to Reopen Bathrooms, Modernize Stations at Powell Street and 19th Street In Oakland BART's board has just approved a contract to modernize Powell Street Station in San Francisco, a project that will include reopening the public restrooms there that have been closed since September 11, 2001.
SF News Nursing Student Tells Harrowing Hero Story Of Trying To Save BART Stabbing Victim A 22-year-old nursing student who uses a wheelchair and is legally deaf was a witness to the entire conflict on the BART train on Tuesday that ended with the stabbing death of Oliver T. Williams.
SF News BART Has Major Systemwide Delays Ahead of Thursday Rush Hour As of 2:40 p.m. Thursday, BART reported major delays across the system due to an "obstruction" on the track in the Transbay Tube.
SF News BART Murder Victim Remembered By Family and Friends As Happy, Generous Soul The 49-year-old Oakland man who was fatally stabbed aboard a BART train on Tuesday is being remembered by his loved ones as a kind and helpful person who was always quick to defend others against bullies.
