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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”
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 Explorers program seeks youth interested in law enforcement careers
The BART PD Explorer Post 413 is currently recruiting young men and women from the ages of 14-20 to join the Explorer training program. Our Explorers are a voluntary organization that helps the youth from our community to be trained by Police Officers in aspects of Law Enforcement, Leadership, and Community
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
16th Street Mission BART station elevators will be temporarily out of service
From Tuesday, April 8 through Friday, April 11, 2008, our crews will be interrupting elevator service at the 16th Street Mission Station to complete electrical improvements to the elevators. This elevator shutdown will limit access to our train platforms at this station. If you require an elevator, you must
Construction kicks off for first downtown San Francisco BART escalator canopy
Work is now underway on a project that will bring a dramatic new look to the Powell Street Station entrance on the north side of Market Street at Ellis and 4 th Streets. The new canopy is designed to protect both passengers and our escalator from the elements as well as to bring an additional layer of
BART Board of Directors to hear budget outlook at meeting on Thursday, Feb. 25
The BART Board of Directors is scheduled to hear a presentation at its Thursday, February 25, meeting on the "pro forma" outlook for the next fiscal year (FY11), which begins July 1, 2010. The pro forma budget rolls over the current budget with existing service levels and programs, with updates for known
BART's Independent Police Auditor attends innovative de-escalation training program
Russell Bloom, BART’s Independent Police Auditor recently attended an innovative de-escalation training program and provided the following blog post on the experience: Late last month I attended a training developed by the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) at the headquarters of the Santa Cruz County
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