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BART to open early and run long, extra trains for 2016 SF Pride

Download the 2016 Pride timetable BART will be opening early at 7:00 am on Sunday, June 26th to accommodate revelers attending San Francisco’s annual LGBTQ Pride parade. We strongly encourage customers to take advantage of this pilot opening time to beat the crowds and take one of the early trains downtown

Essential work of cleaning continues at BART: “We can make it through this”

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BART station and train car cleaners are using this time of lower ridership to rev up their cleaning efforts. "We're tasked every day to maintain the cleanliness of the station for the safety of the customers and also for the workers here," said cleaner Chad Briscoe as he worked at Pittsburg/Bay Point Station

BART Police save teenaged girl by arresting suspected kidnapper

Quick work by the BART Police Department, in partnership with the San Francisco Police Department, last night ensured the safety of a teenage girl and landed a suspected kidnapper in custody.

Shortly after 8:00 pm  BART Police received a call regarding a juvenile female victim who was forcibly removed from the Powell Street Station by an adult male and pulled into a vehicle. 

Witness statements confirmed the initial report and surveillance video from Powell Street Station showed the incident, including the suspect forcibly removing the female from the station.

The parents of the teen filed a missing persons report shortly afterward.

At about 3:00 am San Francisco Police located the suspect and an associated vehicle. BART police took 37-year-old Jamall Blue into custody.

The missing juvenile was also located early this morning and she was referred to the appropriate juvenile services.

 

 

 

 

BART offers authentic number plates from decommissioned cars for sale

As part of our 50th anniversary celebration, BART is selling authentic number plates from decommissioned legacy cars for $50 on our merch store railgoods.com. Each plate comes with a keepsake certificate with facts about the car it came from including the car type, dates of service, top speed, and miles

BART partners with Cypress Mandela: “We need more people to do the work”

Students in the Cypress Mandela Track Worker Workforce Development Program assemble a section of track By MELISSA JORDANBART Senior Web ProducerOne works in an Amazon warehouse pulling items for packaging. One just graduated high school. Another has a masters’ degree in forensic psychology. What they all have