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Stimulus bill increases transit tax benefit for commuters
The Emergency Economic Recovery Act signed into law by President Obama this week provides significant tax savings, up to $1,000 or more a year, to working Americans who commute by transit. The law raises the amount of pretax income that workers enrolled in employer-sponsored commuter benefits programs can use
Public hearing on fare increase, parking fee changes set for May 28
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT: Preliminary budget pamphlets of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District concerning its preliminary annual budget for the fiscal year July 1, 2009, to June 30, 2010, were made available beginning April 9, 2009, to persons requesting them at the Office of the District
Bay Area transit systems release Healthy Transit Plan
Bay Area transit agencies are uniting with the common goal of providing a safe ride for the public as the region responds to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The core of this effort is the newly released “Riding Together: Bay Area Healthy Transit Plan.” The plan outlines action items for frequent cleaning
Rockridge construction to temporarily limit daily fee and permit parking
Dear Customer: We will need to temporarily relocate some Daily Fee and Permit parking spaces as we continue our Earthquake Safety Program construction. Daily Fee spaces will be temporary relocated in the overflow Permit parking spaces in the upper portion of the western lot only. Additional parking for Permit
Expect delays on Daly CIty trains Sat, Feb. 28 and Sun, March 1
From Saturday, February 28 at 1:30am to Monday, March 2, at 3:30am, a variety of BART crews will mobilize at the Daly City Station to work continuously through the weekend. Expect delays of 10 to 15 minutes. Crews will complete a large list of repairs and improvements from platform and concrete work to
Phase II electrical work starts March 9 at MacArthur Station
Starting the week of March 9, 2015, we will finish up Phase I and begin Phase II of the electrical work at MacArthur Station by moving the scaffolding from the north side of the station to the south side and sectioning off areas of the station to do the needed electrical work. Because there is some asbestos
Downtown Berkeley station main entrance/Center Street Closes 8/14/17
The main entrance (Center Street) is scheduled to close 8/14/2017 as part of our Plaza Improvement Project. At the same time, we will close the entrance at the corner of Addison St. West and Shattuck Avenue. The main street entrance and Addison St./Shattuck entrance will reopen in the Fall 2018. The access to
Second weekend closure of Warm Springs Station to be scheduled
June 12, 2017: We will need to close the Warm Springs Station for this work on one more weekend, however that date is still to be determined. We will issue a new bulletin and update this article when a date is chosen. Sunday June 4th 10:30am update: this work is now complete and we have reopened the station
Coliseum Station stabbing suspect identified
32-year-old Robert Dolph of San Francisco was arrested on attempted murder charges following a stabbing at BART’s Oakland Coliseum Station at 2:52 p.m. on Saturday, April 7, 2018.The victims are a woman in her 60’s and her brother in his 50’s.The siblings initially boarded a train at the South San Francisco
Potential Evening Delays Due to Power Cable Replacement in Downtown San Francisco
This is the 2020 article about cable replacement. View the 2021 article. As we experience dramatically reduced ridership due to shelter-in-place orders, we are reducing hours of operation. This gives us the ability to do additional work on vital track and infrastructure projects in the off hours. One such