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BART looks to bolster number of police on trains by approving significant pay increase to help recruit officers
The BART Board of Directors has unanimously approved a new agreement that will increase police officer salaries to put the BART Police Department's (BPD) pay on par with other Bay Area law enforcement agencies. Before the Board’s action, BPD officer salaries were 19% below the market average for 10 local
BART PD arrests suspect wanted for fatal stabbing above 24th Street Mission Station
BART police have arrested 42-year-old Richard Henry Visor in connection with a fatal stabbing that happened last month at the street level on the 24th Street Plaza above the 24th Street/Mission Station in San Francisco. BART Police and the San Francisco Police Department have been working collaboratively
One Book, One BART: Pulitzer winner Hua Hsu on growing up riding local transit
In May, BART launched its first ever book club for riders, One Book, One BART. The inaugural book selection for the book club, which runs through August, is "Stay True," a memoir set in 1990s Berkeley by writer Hua Hsu. Hsu, a staff writer at the New Yorker and a professor of literature at Bard College, grew
All trains at Millbrae will use the same platform for improved BART to Caltrain transfers starting March 22
Starting Monday, March 22nd, BART trains will arrive and depart at Millbrae Station from Platform 3, the one closest to Caltrain at the station. This significant improvement will allow riders at Millbrae to cross the same platform to transfer instead of the previous walk up and through the concourse. BART and
In a historic first, BART runs Exploratorium train and station advertisements in Chochenyo, the language of the East Bay Ohlone
The Exploratorium advertisement for ¡Plantásticas!, written in Chochenyo, featuring Ohlone leaders Vincent Medina (left) and Lous Trevino (right). For the first time in its fifty-year history, BART is running advertisements on trains and in stations written in the oldest language of the inner East Bay
BART offers limited late night service for Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays starting 7/15/21
Beginning Thursday, July 15, 2021, BART will run interim limited late night service after regular BART service ends at 9pm on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. The limited late night service aims to give late night workers and patrons enjoying San Francisco nightlife more options to return home. BART will run
BART System Expansion Policy survey open until 5/12/2022 to public to revisit policy
To meet the needs of an evolving Bay Area, BART is revisiting our System Expansion Policy. This updated policy will serve as a guide as we evaluate proposed projects. As part of these efforts, BART has developed a brief survey to help us understand your priorities for system development: http://s.alchemer.com
After successful 1st year, BART-dedicated SF Homeless Outreach Team expands to Mission
BART-dedicated SFHOT workers Robbie Fischer, left, and Jessie Jones at 16th/Mission By MELISSA JORDAN BART Senior Web Producer A partnership with the San Francisco Homeless Outreach Team that dedicated two workers full-time to downtown San Francisco BART stations had such success in its first year that it’s
Annual BART Holiday Toy Drive to benefit hundreds of families in Eastern Contra Costa County
Update 12/16/21: The annual BART Holiday Toy Drive collected more than 1,000 toys and over $1,000 in gift cards to benefit the hundreds of families aided by the East Contra Costa Community Alliance (ECCA). BART’s advertising partner Outfront Media supported the toy drive by collecting 35 toys and $250 in gift
BART Police's newest Deputy Chief, Ja'Son Scott, knows community connections matter
When newly minted BART Police Deputy Chief Ja’Son Scott was young, he lived across the world with his parents, who both spent their careers serving in the U.S. Air Force. They lived on military bases from Mississippi to Germany and everywhere in between. “During that time, one of the things that was instilled