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On July 3, 2011, a BART Police Officer responded to a service call at Civic Center Station, which evolved into the police-involved shooting death of Charles Hill after Hill threw a knife at the Officer on the busy station platform. A loss of life is a tragedy in any circumstance; however, on February 22, 2012

BART will conduct a one-day operational test at Dublin/Pleasanton Station on Thursday, May 17. The test will begin at 9:00 a.m. and continue throughout the day until the end of service. Trains will depart Dublin/Pleasanton Station from Platform 2 as scheduled. Trains traveling to Dublin/Pleasanton may

BART service to Oakland International Airport is expected to begin this Fall but just how much riders will pay for the 3.2 mile trip is still up in the air. The Board is scheduled to vote to set the fare at its 9 a.m. meeting on June 12. The fare options under consideration range from $4-$6 for a one way trip

BART will be replacing system components, rail and control equipment on a portion of trackway in downtown Oakland the weekend of January 23. The timed transfers that normally occur at 19th Street Station between Richmond and Bay Point north bound trains will occur only at MacArthur during that two-day period

Beginning in August 2006, BART will begin working to upgrade equipment in elevators in all the Fremont line stations. This work will include replacing buttons in the elevators, installing new hands-free phones and reconfiguring the way in which riders call for the elevators. This work will require taking each

Meet the unsung heroes who scrub, mop, sanitize, and polish our trains. Our car cleaning crews work every night of the week scrubbing the inside of train cars to keep them clean and disinfected (including the seats!). This video offers a glimpse at our top-to-bottom cleaning efforts. We clean cars multiple

BART’s Ticket Exchange Window at the 12 th Street/Oakland City Center Station will have reduced hours on Thursday, October 31, 2019. The window will be open from 2:45pm-6pm. We apologize for the inconvenience. Tickets with minimal values can be consolidated into a larger single ticket. Please note the

Effective October 9th, there will be a new, permanent vehicular entrance to the BART parking garage, moving from the south to the west side of the parking garage. This impacts how vehicles enter and exit the garage, as well as the pedestrian path of travel to access the station (see map). Pedestrians and

BART workers need to perform urgent cable replacement work in southern Alameda County to ensure trains on that part of the system have a reliable feed of electricity. The work will take place near Union City Station and will require that service be reduced to one track in the area. The next day for the work

Catalina Ortega, right, works with a child in the Tenderloin After-School Program. Ortega, 25, attended the program herself when she was a child. (Editor’s note: This story uses first names only for program participants to protect their privacy) By MELISSA JORDANBART Senior Web Producer Wadad walks her 11