SF News BART 'Fleet Of The Future' Train Breaks Down During Test Causing Major Morning Delays It's another bad PR week for BART, and it's just gotten a bit worse after they were testing a four-car train of those new Fleet of the Future cars and it broke down
SF News BART Identifies Some Suspects In Mob Robbery As Woman Comes Forward With Separate Teen Attack Story The swarm robbery by a large group of teenagers that occurred at BART's Coliseum Station Saturday night continues to make the local news as KRON 4, CBS 5, and NBC Bay Area all
SF News No Arrests Yet As BART Catches Flak For Not Publicizing 'Flash Mob' Robbery Should BART have been faster to alert the public about the mob of 40+ teens who bum-rushed fare gates, stormed the platform, and roughed up and robbed a bunch of people at Coliseum
SF News BART Police Beef Up Security After Swarm Robbery By Dozens Of Oakland Teens BART has surveillance video of attacks & robberies but won't release to public it bc suspects are minors @kron4news pic.twitter.com/q1kcKmgeZ3— Will Tran (@KRON4WTran) April 25, 2017 A "flash mob" robbery
SF News The Ongoing BART Voltage Spiking Problem, Explained As you likely heard or experienced last Friday if you're a commuter on BART, the beleaguered rail service had a new encounter with a year-old problem on tracks between North Concord and Pittsburg-Bay
SF News BART's Mystery Voltage Problem Appears To Be Back, Snarls Friday Commute The mysterious electrical problem in which power surges were doing damage to BART's aging fleet of trains last year appears to have returned, and once again train cars were damaged Friday by surges
SF News BART Issues Weird PSA That Implies It's Women's Responsibility To Avoid Creeps On Trains Thom Yorke didn't give us his input, but we're still pretty sure these are some great tips for #AvoidingCreeps while riding. What're yours? pic.twitter.com/CI7GxCoPKl— SFBART (@SFBART) April 11, 2017 BART
SF News Disability Rights Advocates Sue BART For Broken, Gross Elevators, BART Blames Homelessness Crisis A lawsuit filed in San Francisco federal court yesterday points out what any BART rider already knows: Elevators and escalators on the regional transit system are chronically broken or unusably filthy. But for
SF News Muni Bans All Political, Offensive, And Violent Advertising On Buses And Trains People with cool, provocative political messages will have to save it for their bumper stickers. As of today, political ads on Muni buses and trains are are prohibited, ABC 7 reports, following a
SF News Police Search For Man Accused Of Series Of Sexual Assaults On Muni .@sfpd says be on the lookout for this man who they say is rubbing himself against unsuspecting women on @sfmta_muni. #SanFrancisco pic.twitter.com/8soiDQpyDO— Lilian Kim (@liliankim7) April 4, 2017 A
SF News 'It's All So BART': Commuters From New Warm Springs Station Disappointed In Service Already BART just opened its first new station in a half decade last week, the Warm Springs/South Fremont Station that extends the system five miles further south toward San Jose on the Fremont
SF News BART's Warm Springs/South Fremont Station Finally Opens Saturday Commuters to and from South Fremont will finally get their own BART station this weekend after what feels like a decade of delays. Warm Springs / South Fremont Station will no longer be a
SF News Muni Metro Delays Create Rush Hour Havoc We may be experiencing a new uptick of Muni Metro troubles and delays something that has been written about extensively on SFist over the years but which had become a bit less of
SF News Major BART And Muni Delays As Suspicious Item Investigated At Civic Center A suspicious item found at Civic Center Station this morning shut down both BART and Muni Metro service through the station, creating massive system-wide delays for both. As KRON 4 reports, the item
SF News BART Says Their Oakland Airport Connector Is Losing Money Because Of Uber, Lyft Setting aside the fact that BART probably spent way too much money to build the auto-piloted tramway connecting Coliseum Station and Oakland Airport, BART now says that the $500 million boondoggle isn't even
SF News Sex Offender Convicted In BART Masturbation Case Gets 25-Year Sentence 53-year-old Jerome Dion Dawkins, who was convicted last October on multiple counts of lewd behavior and stalking on BART, including false imprisonment, indecent exposure, and lewd acts on children, was sentenced last week
SF News BART's 'Fleet Of The Future' To Roll Out Further In The Future Than Promised Since no news about a BART project being hampered by delays should come as a shock, it should inspire little more than half an eyeroll to hear that BART's fleet of new train
SF News Overcrowded BART Trains Likely Causing Drop In Ridership, Ironically Despite all the news about the BART system being strained at the seams by population growth and a crush of riders at peak commute hours, overall BART ridership has actually been declining since
SF News Weight Problem: BART's 'Fleet Of The Future' Cars Are A Ton Heavier Than Expected, Could Strain System BART's Fleet of the Future, 775 shiny new train cars that have caused their share of delays and debates in the past, have arrived with a brand new problem: They're a ton overweight,
SF News Muni Thinks Most Riders Pay Their Fares It's true that a lot of people around SF are good with the honor system and dutifully tag their Clipper cards when boarding Muni buses and light-rail trains. But do the overwhelming majority?
SF News BART Directors Propose Sanctuary In Transit Policy In an Oakland meeting of the BART Board yesterday, two BART directors took the stance that the regional transit system should investigate and perhaps adopt a "Sanctuary in Transit Policy." That policy, those
SF News BART Janitor Who Makes $271K A Year Spends Hours At A Time In A Storage Closet Quick thought experiment: You're a janitor at a BART station, and not just any BART station, but the Powell Street BART station, a uniquely gross nexus of sadness and squalor. How much pay
SF News Delays And Crowds Cause Big Hit To BART Rider Satisfaction In New Survey In BART's biennial survey of its regular riders, complaints are up about noise and lack of places to sit, and unsurprisingly given BART's delay- and breakdown-plagued 2016, overall satisfaction with the system is
SF News BART Says, Actually, Standing On The Right And Passing On The Left Causes Escalators To Break While it's part of Bay Area gospel and a piece of established etiquette that longtime residents try to drill into the minds of all newcomers to stick to the right side of a
SF News Friday The 13th Will Mark The Arrival Of Muni's First New 'Fleet Of The Future' Train The first of 64 brand new Muni Metro light-rail trains will arrive in San Francisco on Friday, January 13th. It's not the most auspicious date for a transit system known for its poor
