SF News New Warm Springs BART Extension Might Actually Open This Year BART announced last week that the third rail of the upcoming Warm Springs BART Station south of Fremont Station would be turned on today. The powering on of the rail means that the
SF News BART's New Cars To Have Three Minivan-Like Doors Get ready for a new era, as BART announced yesterday that their forthcoming train cars will be equipped with three doors, eschewing the two-door design to which we're all accustomed. The addition of
SF News BART Kills Off Three-Car Trains, Beefs Up Schedule To Ease Over-Crowding In an effort to deal with overstuffed rush-hour trains, BART will, as of Monday, make several schedule changes and do away with those dumb three-car trains. In an official announcement, BART says they
SF News North Bay To Get Actual Functioning Commuter Rail Next Year North Bay residents who rely on the 101 corridor are soon going to have another, less trafficky option for getting to and from the Golden Gate or at least to and from San
SF News Stolen Clipper Cards Can't Be Cancelled Right Away (And You Have to Keep Paying) If you happen to lose your Clipper card, you might still be responsible — until at least midnight — for whatever taps are wracked up on it even while it’s in the thief’s
SF News Suicide Shutters Embarcadero Station For Several Hours Monday Afternoon Montgomery station right now after a @SFBART train hits, kills person at Embarcadero http://t.co/Um3ZmyceCq pic.twitter.com/p5UvlxVoXt— Todd Johnson (@SFBizTodd) August 24, 2015 A man reportedly jumped in front
SF News BART May Finally Reopen Public Restrooms Shut Since 9/11 Fourteen years on, the BART board is mulling a proposal to remodel and reopen 10 underground BART station restrooms, all of which have remained closed to the public since the week of September
SF News BART Still Isn't Sure How You'll Get Across The Bay During This Summer's Weekend Shutdowns The news for BART riders just keeps getting worse and worse. The transit system's persistent issues with their aging tracks cause near-daily disruptions and delays, weekend East Bay riders need to switch to
SF News BART Shutting Down All East Bay-SF Service During Two Late-Summer Weekends You know all the urgent track maintenance BART has been talking about that has to get done? Well, now the transit agency is announcing that it will be shutting down all service between
SF News Supervisors Help Kick Off 22-Day Muni Challenge With Rally At City Hall Fun times at our rally to kick off the 22-day #MuniChallenge. #OnBoardSF pic.twitter.com/1XPqpAg1yU— Scott Wiener (@Scott_Wiener) June 1, 2015 Back in April the SF Transit Riders Union challenged the
SF News Leap's Private Buses Continue To Hurdle Regulations Leap drives fast and breaks things, so to speak, with the Chronicle reporting that the private bus company has outmaneuvered regulation at every turn and currently occupies a "gray area" in which it
SF News Mayor And Supervisors Challenged To Ride Muni Themselves Much like the citizenry did almost ten years ago with then mayor Gavin Newsom, a citizens' group is challenging the current mayor and Board of Supervisors to ride Muni themselves for 22 days
SF News The Rush-Hour Crush On BART Will Continue Unchanged For At Least Two Years It looks like the results are in from that previously announced study BART was doing on train over-crowding, and yep, rush-hour trains are definitely over-crowded! As the Chronicle reports, and as all commuters
SF News BART's Track Maintenance Problems Way Bigger Than Previously Reported The track replacement situation between Fruitvale and Coliseum stations that's going to deeply inconvenience thousands of East Bay BART riders this spring and summer is just the first of many urgent repairs that
SF News SFPD Chases Suspect Through BART Tunnels Monday Night Causing Major Delays What Embarcadero #BART station looks like when there is a delay. Happy to be off the train. pic.twitter.com/4ObYTmpml7— Sally K (@Sally_K) March 10, 2015 Were you stuck on an
SF News Task Force Declares Second Transbay Tube Necessary For Late-Night Transit The Late Night Transportation Working Group, which consists of 29 representatives for late-night businesses, workers, tourism, and transportation operators, is recommending an overhaul and expansion of overnight bus services while noting that that
SF News Survey Says BART Is Filthier, More Crowded Than Ever BART knows you don't love BART. You said so in their biannual Customer Satisfaction Survey, wherein approval for the service sank to a 16 year low. That said, satisfaction was still at 74
SF News Free Muni Approved For Seniors, People With Disabilities Free #Muni for seniors and people with disabilities rally about to start at City Hall. pic.twitter.com/Ki6N2tzNeN— Jerold Chinn (@jchinn84) January 20, 2015 In a unanimous vote yesterday, the SFMTA approved
Arts & Entertainment Local Caricaturist Draws You Looking At Your Phone On Public Transit If you've ever been engrossed in a device while riding BART or Muni, it's possible Hamilton Cline drew you. For practical reasons, that's how Cline picks his subjects. "Mainly what I'm looking for
SF News California's High-Speed Rail Finally Breaks Ground, In Fresno, Tomorrow The much dreamt-of, argued-over, fretted-over, celebrated and maligned high-speed rail system from San Francisco to Los Angeles, which will not be completed until many of us are middle aged or entering retirement, is
SF News [UPDATE] No More Wi-Fi On BART Trains, In Stations Though you may have found some free wi-fi in BART stations and on some trains the last few years, the test program under which that was being provided has now ended. As BART
SF News Oakland Airport Connector Already Experiencing Breakdowns Due To Windblown Trash The three-week-old, $484 million boondoggle fancy tram to the Oakland Airport ran into some major trouble last Friday, during the tail end of the rainpocalypse, shutting down for seven hours due to windblown
SF News BART And AC Transit Launch New And More Frequent Overnight Bus Service This Weekend Good news, all you East Bay party people who enjoy cavorting in the Mission: At a press conference on Tuesday morning BART and AC Transit officials are unveiling the final details of a
SF News We Could Have BART Service To The Richmond... By 2040 BART is officially studying the possibility of constructing a second Transbay Tube which would take BART service through Alameda, into SoMa, and potentially out to the western part of the city that's currently
SF News Oakland Airport BART Connector Might Be Open By Thanksgiving Right on schedule, BART's Oakland Airport Connector light rail is set to open to the public either by the end of next month, or by early December. The project has been controversial because
