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As fire season heats up, BART grounds crews are in high gear to reduce risk
By MELISSA JORDANBART Senior Web Producer With the hot, dry days of fire season upon us, the work of BART’s dedicated groundskeeping crews becomes more important than ever.Think about the never-ending nature of pulling weeds in your home’s yard, then imagine keeping up the grounds for 121 miles of trackway
Midway through pilot, tests of new filters and UV light on BART show promise
By MELISSA JORDANBART Senior Web Producer BART is about midway through a pilot that is testing new, denser air filters and UV light to create even safer ventilation on trains, as the region rebounds from the pandemic and ridership ticks up. BART cars already have air that is very well filtered; an entire
BART will run Saturday service for 2019 Martin Luther King holiday with free parking
BART will run a modified Saturday schedule on the Martin Luther King holiday, Monday, January 21, 2019. The system will open at 6am and trains will run 20 minutes apart.The service from Richmond will start an hour earlier than usual for a Saturday. There will be additional early trains from Richmond and Daly
Rockridge and Warm Springs monthly permit payment and waitlist moves to the official BART app
Reserving parking at Rockridge and Warm Springs stations is now available through the BART official app. Rockridge and Warm Springs customers will need to transition from Select-aSpot to the official app to purchase monthly reserved, single day reserved, and multi day (previously known as Airport/Long Term)
With solar power and more, Warm Springs may be BART's greenest station yet
Solar panels atop the concourse roof and parking areas provide power to the station. By RAQUEL CRITESBART Contributing Writer and Photographer What does it take to construct a state-of-the-art, environmentally sustainable train station? It was a long road to the March 25 grand opening, but BART, with its new
BART designates last car of each train for those honoring fallen SFFD firefighters
Tomorrow BART asks riders to join the agency in extending sympathy to the hundreds of fire personnel riding BART together in the last car of each train as they make their way to and from tomorrow’s funeral honoring the two San Francisco firefighters who died battling a house fire on June 2, 2011. Fire
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BART Board planning to adopt Warm Springs fares at July 23rd meeting
With the Warm Springs extension project rapidly approaching completion, the BART Board of Directors is set to adopt the station’s new fare schedule at the 5 pm night meeting on July 23 rd. A public hearing on the projects fares was held on June 25. The Warm Springs Extension adds 5.4-miles of new tracks from
BART will run Saturday service for the 2020 Martin Luther King holiday with free parking
BART will run a modified Saturday schedule on the Martin Luther King holiday, Monday, January 20, 2020. The system will open at 6am and trains will run 20 minutes apart. We will run longer trains than usual for a Saturday. The service from Richmond will start an hour earlier than usual for a Saturday. There
“Unwavering Love:” BART PD, outreach workers help mother reunite with her son
Sonja Hagins Perry hugs her son after they were reunited in San Francisco; Photo by Duane A. Hagins, Perry’s brother By MELISSA JORDANBART Senior Web Producer Sonja Hagins Perry never gave up on her son, her firstborn, her boy who loved music, art, being a big brother.Perry, who did tours of Afghanistan, the