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A Sacramento company, WiFi Rail Inc., has finalized a 20-year agreement with BART to provide high-speed wifi service on the Bay Area Rapid Transit system. WiFi Rail has been testing the service for the past year in four downtown San Francisco stations, where more than 15,000 customers registered to use it

In celebration of Transit Month, BART is hosting “All Aboard with Transit CEOs,” a multi-modal ride-a-long and social event giving the public a chance to ride with and meet regional transit leaders. The event is Friday, September 16, 2022, from 3pm-6:30pm. 11 General Manager/CEOs from various Bay Area transit

The public would get improved information about meetings of BART special committees under changes to the committee system that were discussed by the BART Board of Directors at its June 9, 2011, meeting. The Board agreed it needed more information on the proposed changes and said the issue would be put on the

On Monday, September 14 th, BART will make improvements to its train schedule and will add more cars to help provide some crowding relief while we wait for the Fleet of the Future to arrive. The number of cars scheduled to be in service during the rush hours will be at an all-time record high, with additional

BART is back on time and the San Leandro station has been re-opened after a medical emergency this morning. Bus bridges were stopped after the station opened at 9:46 a.m. The incident occurred at 7:23 a.m. Trains began to move through San Leandro Station at 7:52 a.m., but did not stop at the station. A bus

Photo by David Baer By MELISSA JORDAN BART Senior Web Producer Art, technology and transit intersected recently when the East Bay IGers, a group of fans of the iPhone application Instagram, conducted its monthly photo-walk as a photo-ride – on BART. Instagram is one in a new wave of applications that let

BART Spokesperson Alicia Trost released the following update: The derailment that occurred on Saturday May 20 th at 2:55 pm occurred at a rail joint about 400 feet from the Daly City platform. A rail joint is where two sections of rail are mechanically joined. It involved two cars in the middle of a nine-car

April Grant and David Boyll in rehearsals for “2 Across” at Pacifica Spindrift Players. Two strangers, both tackling the New York Times crossword, meet on an empty BART train at 4:30 in the morning at SFO. The woman, a psychologist, is organized and rational. The man, unemployed, is flighty and free-spirited

Ty Carter (left) and his father, Mark President Barack Obama is scheduled to award the Medal of Honor today to Army Staff Sergeant Ty Michael Carter, an Antioch native whose father Mark is a BART electrician. Mark is in Washington, D.C. to see his son receive the nation’s highest military honor, but his

Advertisements paid for by Progressives for Immigration Reform went up this week in parts of the BART system. They’ve been placed primarily at San Francisco’s Civic Center Station and Oakland’s 19 th Street Stations with smaller numbers in other stations and in trains. This campaign complies with free speech