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
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,
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
