SF News BART Seriously Still Hasn't Replaced Decoy Cameras With Real Ones When 19-year-old Carlos Misael Funez-Romero of Antioch was shot and killed aboard a BART train at the West Oakland Station on January 9, no footage of the crime was available. That's because, like
SF News BART Responds To Claims That It Misrepresented True Cost Of November Bond Measure With BART officials claiming that much of the transit system's infrastructure has reached the end of its lifespan, a $3.5 billion bond on this November's ballot, if passed by voters, would provide
SF News November BART Bond Might Actually Impact Homeowners More Than They Think With the $3.5 billion BART bond measure officially on November's ballot, one might think that the basic facts of the matter — like how much it will cost local homeowners — would be agreed
SF News BART Seat Hogging? Expect A Criminal Background Check, Fines Starting this September, BART passengers taking up more than one train seat may be subject to police questioning, criminal background checks, fines, and even arrest. So reports CBS 5 as BART police share
Arts & Entertainment A Look At The 'Best-Case Scenario' For 2050 Bay Area Transit Bay Area denizens love making "dream" maps of public transit. The reality, of course, is that the construction of new lines, tracks, and whatever else is required to add new public transit to
SF News BART GM Acknowledges Her System's A Mess, Doesn't Seem Sure How To Fix It At a Bay Area transportation summit held last week, BART General Manager Grace Crunican sounded, frankly, exhausted and overwhelmed regarding both the system's issues and the public perception of the beleaguered transit agency.
SF News Despite Spending $2.5M, BART Still Doesn't Know What Caused Mystery Voltage Problem Remember those unexplained voltage spikes that knocked over 100 BART cars out of service earlier in the year? Thankfully, whatever was causing the disruption eventually stopped, and BART was able to resume normal
SF News A Close Up Look At The New BART Seats Yes, it smells like new car. #FleetOfTheFuture pic.twitter.com/dOB580FUw8— SFBART (@SFBART) April 6, 2016 While we're all certainly excited for the numerous amenities the new BART cars will offer, the seats
SF News Shills From Private Shuttle Service Chariot Are Now Proselytizing At Muni Stops Have you heard the good word? Chariot, the San Francisco network of shuttle buses that falls somewhere between the jitneys of yesteryear and the tech commuter buses of today, wants to make certain
SF News Some BART Employees Making Triple Their Salaries In Overtime A perceived pattern of excessive overtime pay to BART employees has a least one state senator asking questions, and has forced officials within the transit agency to launch an internal probe into the
SF News [Update] Person Stuck Under BART Train Shuts Embarcadero Station, Causes Systemwide Delays Embarcadero Station is shut down this morning as rescue workers attempt to free a person trapped under a train. According to BART, trains are skipping the station "due to a major medical emergency.
SF News [Update] Major BART Delays After Smoke Fills 16th Street Station BART riders at San Francisco stations have been experiencing major delays in the East Bay direction this morning. The cause appears to be an equipment problem that left 16th Street station filled with
SF News BART Power Loss Wednesday Morning Leads To System-Wide Delays, Trapped Passengers BART is currently experiencing system-wide delays today of at least 20 minutes resulting from some sort of widespread power loss, BART officials announced. Meanwhile, at least some passengers appear trapped on dark trains
SF News Etiquette Week: Do You Have To Line Up For BART Doors? It's Etiquette Week at SFist, in which SFist's editors dole out some prescriptive advice for how to behave in this city we all share in order not to overly annoy, offend, or otherwise
Arts & Entertainment Etiquette Week: How To Ride A Muni Bus It's time again for something we haven't done in a couple years here at SFist, and that's Etiquette Week in which SFist's editors dole out some prescriptive advice for how to behave in
SF News Muni Will FINALLY Allow Two Trains In A Station At Once, Soon After years of trying and failing to make this work, Muni is finally (maybe) getting close to allowing "double stopping" or "double berthing" in downtown Muni stations, thereby alleviating some computer-created congestion in
SF News Muni Is Getting A New Fleet Of Train Cars, Starting This Year Starting this year, Muni is set to begin receiving the first of its 260 new rail cars. Some of the trains, which the Chronicle reports are made by German company Siemens and are
SF News Engineers Still Don't Know Why New BART Car Crashed PHOTOS: Crews work to dig out new #BART train stuck in dirt during testing crash in Hayward: https://t.co/58uJUenn2v pic.twitter.com/APAEn7Jpzb— ABC7 News (@abc7newsBayArea) April 22, 2016 When a
SF News New BART Car Overshoots Test Track, Plows Into Dirt PHOTOS: Crews work to dig out new #BART train stuck in dirt during testing crash in Hayward: https://t.co/58uJUenn2v pic.twitter.com/APAEn7Jpzb— ABC7 News (@abc7newsBayArea) April 22, 2016 The first
SF News N-Judah Meltdown Snarls Morning Commute Thankfully, rush-hour meltdowns on Muni aren't quite as frequent as they were in recent years, but they're not yet a thing of the past. This morning saw an "overhead wire issue" near the
SF News BART's Mysterious Voltage Spike Disappears Without Explanation The mysterious glitch that knocked 50 BART cars out of service one morning in March, causing service issues and delays throughout the system for weeks, has disappeared as quickly as it appeared as
SF News BART To Tackle Broken, Poopy Escalators With Newly Approved Funds BART admits total defeat pic.twitter.com/1BHwYk0ynR— Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) November 29, 2015 Over the past few years BART's escalators have basically become a punch line, filled with poop as they are
SF News BART And Workers' Unions Reach Tentative Labor Deal Ahead Of 2017 Contract Anyone who was here in 2013 and relied on BART to commute to and from the East Bay knows how painful a BART strike can be. That strike only lasted four days, but
SF News Guess What! The Transbay Terminal Project Has Run Out Of Money Again Budget shortfalls and funding drama have been the name of the game in the construction of the $2.25 billion Transbay Transit Center project going back several years. And now, the six-story, four-block-long
SF News Video: Hear The New BART Horn, And Get An Up-Close Look At The New Car's Interior Following that big press event on Wednesday, we now have video footage inside the first of the new Fleet of the Future BART car, currently undergoing testing at BART's Hayward facility. The video
