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BART Rider Action Alert: State support for public transit at stake
Dear Rider: We at BART want to make you aware that Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the State Legislature are considering permanently eliminating the very program that funds public transit. That program is called the State Transportation Assistance (STA) fund. They may slash these funds in order to once
Seen & heard on BART this week: Fog town, iPad station, singing rooster
BART riders are a busy bunch -- taking trains to work, to play, to meet friends and travel around the Bay Area. While they're on BART they're gaming, crocheting, listening to music, reading and people-watching. Here's a fresh batch of things people saw and talked about on BART this week. We'll update this
Community listening session on behalf of the California Department of Justice and BART PD (3/9)
The BART Police Department and the California Department of Justice (Cal DOJ) have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) to work with BART PD to independently evaluate the reforms put in place by BART PD and the BART Board of Directors, with the goal of improving BART PD policies where applicable
BART Customer Services representative opens the curtain behind answering and listening to riders
BART Customer Service representative Michelle Pallen-Mendiola poses with staff in front of merchandise booth at a community event pre-pandemic Daniel was on a plane ready to depart at SFO with his family for a wedding, concerned whether his parked car at Millbrae would be ticketed or even towed after he
Seen & heard on BART this week: carols, fake Chanel, E-40, meditation
BART riders are a busy bunch -- taking trains to work, to play, to meet friends and travel around the Bay Area. While they're on BART they're gaming, crocheting, listening to music, reading and people-watching. Here's a fresh batch of things people saw and talked about on BART this week. We'll update this
BART increases service for Giants parade; trains will run until 2AM
BART is gearing up to carry hundreds of thousands of baseball fans to downtown San Francisco on Friday, October 31 to celebrate the Giants World Series seventh game win. BART will run its rush hour service all day--using every available train possible. To ensure that everyone can get home safely, trains will
BART ridership up over Labor Day weekend, overnight ridership down
A total of 539,400 passengers took BART over the Labor Day weekend. That's 61,800 or 13% more passengers than BART anticipated would've taken BART had Caltrans not shutdown the eastbound lanes of the Bay Bridge for the entire weekend to perform earthquake retrofit work. The number of people who took BART
BART Police persistence pays off, results in arrest of armed and dangerous parolee
BART investigators seeking additional information from witnesses A parolee suspected of robbing a person - and who was considered armed and dangerous - sits in jail thanks to the tireless efforts of several BART Police officers who just wouldn't give up. The incident began at 10:25 p.m. on July 28, 2010 when
Take BART to free First Tuesdays at downtown San Francisco museums
Photo: Richard T. Walker, The Speed and Eagerness of Meaning. Courtesy of the artist and Christopher Grimes Gallery, part of a current YBCA exhibt By STEFAN MARTINEZ BART Website Intern Every first Tuesday of the month at noon, a magical thing happens in San Francisco: “free Tuesdays” at several downtown
New Bike Station at Downtown Berkeley BART Station will feature lots of amenities
Employee Felipe Morales at the old bike station By Xuan Lam BART Website Intern If you bike around Berkeley, you’re probably familiar with the bike “cage” on the concourse level of the Downtown Berkeley BART Station. This free bike storage area was started in 1999 and has become more and more popular over