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BART Police Chief announces $10,000 hiring bonus to promote officer recruitment

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Starting March 19, 2019, BART Police Department has increased its hiring bonus to $15,000. The BART Police Department is streamlining its hiring process and is now offering for the first time ever a $10,000 hiring bonus for academy graduates or experienced officers. The initiatives are part of the new Police

BART to offer its most robust Pride service ever for SF Pride 2023

Thanks to improvements in BART’s Sunday schedule over the last year BART will offer more service for the 53rd annual San Francisco Pride Parade and Celebration than for any past Pride Sunday. This year’s parade will be held on Sunday, June 25th. On the day of last year’s parade BART handled 133,905 trips

Nation's top transit official: Aging systems like BART need money for repairs

The nation’s top transit official emphasized the need for a sustainable long-term funding source for public transportation systems such as BART so they can not only build for the future but also maintain what’s already in operation. Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Administrator Peter Rogoff toured BART’s

How BART Works: Day in the life of a Station Agent meeting range of rider needs

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By MELISSA JORDAN BART Senior Web Producer BART is working hard to focus on rider needs, investing in priorities such as cleaner stations and new trains. With record ridership, no one sees rider needs closer than the frontline workers who deal most directly with riders every day. For this feature -- “How BART

BART budget outlook: more train service soon, brand new trains later

Signs of a slowly recovering economy are providing BART with the resources to reinvest in the fleet of the future for the long term and to provide extra train service for the short term. The BART Board of Directors explored budget issues during its Thursday, April 12, 2012 meeting as part of the process of

BART turns over internal affairs probe to independent, third-party law firm

BART announced today that it has turned over its internal affairs investigation to the Oakland-based law firm of Meyers Nave. Meyers Nave is an independent, third party that will investigate the actions of all the officers present during the events leading up to the shooting death of Oscar Grant on January 1