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.
SF News Shoeless Sacramento Man Suspected of Murder On BART Train In Hayward A grisly murder occurred Tuesday afternoon in front of multiple witnesses on a Warm Springs-bound BART train, and it allegedly stemmed from an attempted theft of a sleeping man's shoes.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: New South Bay BART Stations Won't Open In December A standoff ends peacefully in San Jose, steam from a power plant caused some panic in Crockett, and BART is once again disappointing everyone with a new delay on the Milpitas and Berryessa station openings.
SF News Lengthy Exposé Shows How Crime on BART Has Gone Off the Rails NBC Bay Area reveals that BART is “one of the most dangerous transportation systems in the country,” and details which stations are the worst for violent crime.
SF News Civil Rights Lawyer John Burris To File Lawsuit on Behalf of BART Sandwich Eater McMuffin-gate — or whatever we're calling it — continues today as we learn that Oakland civil rights attorney John Burris is filing a lawsuit against BART on behalf of Steven Foster, the man detained last week by a BART police officer for eating a breakfast sandwich.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink McMuffin-Eating Protest Planned Saturday at Pleasant Hill BART Station In a continuing public response to last week's story about a black guy who was handcuffed and cited by a BART cop for eating a breakfast sandwich, a protest is being organized this weekend involving many more breakfast sandwiches at the BART station where all this went down.
SF News BART General Manager Issues Apology To Sandwich Eater Detained By BART Cop Amid public outcry over the black man detained at Pleasant Hill Station by a BART police officer for eating a breakfast sandwich on the platform, BART's new General Manager Bob Powers has issued a public apology.
SF News BART Riders Stage 'Eat-In' To Protest Man Detained For Consuming Sandwich Ravenous riders flooded SF's Embarcadero Station yesterday to snack and protest the fact that a man was handcuffed for literally eating a breakfast sandwich on BART's Pleasant Hill platform earlier in the week; it was a modern-day “eat-in,” if you will.
SF News #ByeFelicia: BART Retires First Legacy Car 'Felicia' To Make Room For Newer Fleet Vehicles After nearly two decades of (somewhat) faithful service, BART has scrapped a 19-year-old car in order to make way for the 775 new autos the transit system will roll out in the coming years.
SF News BART Police Officer Detains and Cuffs Black Man For Eating Breakfast Sandwich On Platform A pair of videos has been making the rounds of a BART police officer having a heated interaction with a rider whom he wanted to cite for eating on the Pleasant Hill BART platform earlier this week.
Arts & Entertainment Photo: Someone Brought a Pony On BART A pony appeared on BART Tuesday, and this delighted many people on Twitter.
SF News New BART General Manager Goes on ‘Listening Tour,’ Encounters What We See Every Day New BART GM Robert Powers is going station to station every Wednesday, allowing you the opportunity to give him heck in person.
SF News Panhandling and Busking Ban Gets Thumbs Up From BART Staff Report A proposed ban on all panhandling and busking on BART trains appears to be moving forward as a new report from the transit agency's legal staff finds that a ban should pass muster if it's only for paid areas like platforms and trains.
SF News Suspect Arrested in West Oakland Following Box-Cutter Slashing On BART An apparently mentally disturbed suspect was arrested Friday afternoon after an incident in which a woman was stabbed or slashed with a box-cutter on board a BART train.
SF News Riding BART to SFO Would Get You In TSA Priority Lane Under New Proposal BART is actively trying to incentivize getting to SFO via train, rather than Uber or Lyft or private vehicle, and they want to give riders access to the TSA Priority lane at security via a scan of their Clipper card.
SF News BART Says Service Won't Be Interrupted Despite Wide Possible Power Outage BART pledges that train service will not be interrupted Wednesday and Thursday despite large swaths of the Bay Area being expected to lose power in a PG&E safety shutoff.
SF News Major BART Delays Follow Non-Injury Shooting at Pittsburg-Bay Point Five people were detained for questioning Monday evening following a shooting at BART's Pittsburg-Bay Point Station.
