SF News BART Forced To Scrounge For Replacement Parts On eBay As we all know, BART's fleet is old. However, until the remaining 774 new cars are delivered and brought into service over the next five years, we all just have to make do
SF News Photos: First Look Inside That New BART Car, Bike Racks And All It's here. The first of 775 new train cars has arrived in the Bay Area. #BetterBART #FleetOfTheFuture pic.twitter.com/a6AjoqusIT— SFBART (@SFBART) April 6, 2016 After a thankfully uneventful journey across these
SF News The DC Metro, At Almost The Same Age As BART, Is Also Having Major Problems At Middle Age The Bay Area is not alone in having a mass transit system built in the mid-1970's that is showing some major signs of age this past year that are in part the result
SF News BART Delay This Morning Caused By Police Chase And Car Crash Near Tracks In Pleasant Hill UPDATE: A car was reported on the #BART tracks, causing major delays https://t.co/ewPpdMRKh0 pic.twitter.com/YuafM31lnq— KRON 4 News (@kron4news) March 31, 2016 Yet again BART riders faced a
SF News CA Lawmakers Gripe About Change In High-Speed Rail Construction Plans A change announced in February in the construction schedule of California's controversial, gargantuan high-speed rail project one that would connect San Jose to the Central Valley ahead of building the SoCal segment that
SF News BART's Actually Gotten More Reliable Over Last Seven Years, Not Less — Are They Just Crying Poverty? BART and its decrepit, 30+-year-old fleet of train cars has been a major topic of discussion the last couple weeks after a mysterious voltage spiking problem took a group of them out
SF News Company Building New BART Cars Has History Of Missed Deadlines Just before chaos erupted and took 50 of BART's super-ancient cars out of service last week due to a still mysterious, roving voltage spike, we had a cheery video to show you of
SF News BART Having Come-To-Jesus Moment About Where It's Been Spending Its Money JUST IN: #BART operator says they've successfully run 5-6 test trains this morning from #Pittsburg to #Concord pic.twitter.com/yU0jE60E14— KTVU (@KTVU) March 21, 2016 BART is continuing to run bus bridges
SF News Desperate BART Riders Wrestle Broken Door Shut To Keep Friday Commute From Being Ruined During the already cramped, slow, and frustrating East Bay-bound commute Friday evening, several BART riders took matters into their own hands after a Pittsburg/Bay Point-bound train was about to be taken out
SF News BART Delays, Crowding To Go On Indefinitely As Mystery Voltage Spike Remains Unsolved The problem that began Wednesday when 50 BART cars were jolted out of service due to a voltage spike near the end of the Pittsburg/Bay Point line will not be solved quickly,
SF News BART Chaos Continues As Riders Revolt On Twitter Widespread problems with BART continue today, as we learn that 50 BART cars were damaged by a voltage spike requiring that they be pulled from service. The problem, BART officials tell us, is
SF News Commuters, SFO-Bound Passengers Told To Leave Early Due To BART Problem BART is experiencing a trackside maintenance problem on the Pittsburg/Bay Point line today that has led to systemwide delays, and BART is now warning passengers to possibly leave early or stay at
SF News Video: First Functioning New BART Car Begins Cross-Country Journey On Flatbed Truck It's happening, everyone. BART's spiffy, modern new rail cars are actually hitting the assembly line in upstate New York, and the very first one was just loaded up onto a flatbed truck to
SF News Study: BART Cars Host Bacteria Behind Skin Infections, Pneumonia This past December a group investigating the cleanliness of five national transit networks found BART to be teeming with gram-positive cocci — bacteria that can cause skin infections and pneumonia. Samples obtained via swabbing
SF News Commuter Train Out Of San Jose Derails In Mudslide In Niles Canyon, Injuring Nine Sunol: Train derailment. Rescue in progress. @AlamedaCoFire, @FremontFire, @CAL_FIRE, @CHPDublin on scene pic.twitter.com/TszJpQJ1G8— Alameda County Fire (@AlamedaCoFire) March 8, 2016 An Altamont Corridor Express train traveling from San Jose
SF News SFMTA Director: New Buses Work Just Fine On Hills SFMTA Director of Transportation Ed Reiskin wants everyone to calm down. Contrary to a report last week in the Examiner, Reiskin says the new $1.1 million-a-pop 60-foot electric trolley buses purchased by
SF News Mystery Problem In Transbay Tube Knocking Out BART Cars BART is in trouble, but it's not the lack of security cameras or overcrowding that has thrown a wrench in the system this time around. Rather, an as-of-yet unidentified problem in the Transbay
SF News BART Seeks To Gamify Commute In Bid To Ease Congestion BART has a rush-hour problem, and with new cars not expected until sometime in 2017, that problem isn't going away anytime soon. Unless, that is, BART's recently announced plan to gamify your commute
SF News Mostly Fake BART Surveillance Cameras Will Cost $1.4 Million To Replace The cat has been out of the bag for some time that the "majority" or even the "vast majority" of surveillance cameras onboard BART trains are decoys or otherwise inoperable. In the past
SF News [Update] Person Struck On BART Tracks Near North Berkeley Causing Major Delays A person who was struck and killed by a northbound Richmond train on the "wayside" meaning in the BART trackway at or just north of North Berkeley station is causing major delays on
SF News Shooting Aboard BART In West Oakland Was Not Random, Suspect Still At Large According to witnesses aboard a BART train headed to San Francisco on Saturday night just before 8 p.m., right before the doors would open at the West Oakland Station, a "disheveled looking
SF News Prepare To Get Turnt: BART To Run Until 3 AM New Year's Day Hey party people, good news: As they have in previous years, BART has announced it will runs trains until 3 a.m. on New Year's Eve night/New Year's Day. The extra time
SF News Private Shuttle Service Chariot Swears They're For Everyone, Adds New Routes (Maybe) Private shuttle service Chariot is a transportation alternative for everyone (they promise!), and they're launching new routes this week (well, maybe) to prove it. In what is perhaps best read as a business
SF News Muni Still Unable To Wrap Its Head Around Two Trains Arriving At Once The latest effort to make Muni suck just a little less has, surprise surprise, run into delays. A software bug has prevented Muni from safely implementing its planned program of double berthing at
SF News Sorely Needed Improvements (Like An Actual Ceiling) Bound For Powell BART Planners say they see a light at the end of the tunnel for one beleaguered BART station that, “at its worst... looks like an unsupervised construction site,” according to San Francisco BART director
