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BART’s Brightening Crew: Blasting Away the Grime
You may have seen them before in downtown Oakland or San Francisco, covered head-to-toe in protective gear and wielding a heated high-pressure washer wand. They’re BART’s brightening crew, and they’re on a deep cleaning mission to blast away the dirt (and blood, and vomit, and human waste) mucking up our
BART participates in emergency drill at Antioch Station
On Monday, February 25, 2019 at 10 am the BART Police Department along with the Berkeley and Walnut Creek Police Departments will participate in an emergency preparedness drill at the Antioch BART Station. The exercise will take place for approximately three hours. The east end of the Antioch Station platform
Cracked rail repaired, BART service restored
BART has restored service along lines affected this morning by a cracked rail north of Lake Merritt Station, although there were residual delays as the system recovered from the disruption. The incident began around 9:15 a.m. today and service was restored at 11:07 a.m. Special shuttle trains were put in
Take BART to San Francisco celebrations this weekend
Be a car-free celebrant when you head to San Francisco’s 159th Annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade and Festival on Saturday or to the first Sunday Streets event of the year. Downtown Stations Close to St. Paddy’s Day Events You can exit any of BART’s downtown stations to view the parade. It begins at 11:30 a.m
A new approach to cleaning BART's busiest stations
If you were to see the marble on a kitchen countertop, the graceful interplay of gray, white and black might catch your eye and prompt you to pause and appreciate its natural elegance. But here, on the concourse level of Embarcadero Station, the marble floor is largely ignored by the thousands of customers
BART unveils new glass canopy entrance
OAKLAND— BART’s latest efforts to improve escalator reliability and provide a more welcoming entrance to our stations in the form of a glass canopy entrance structure, is now completed and open to riders at the 19th Street station. BART Director Robert Raburn joined a crowd of people in celebrating the grand
BART takes direct aim at noise pollution
2/6/18 Update: We now have 34.4% of the legacy fleet (230 cars) upgraded with the new profile. We still expect to have 90% of the fleet converted by the end of 2019. Last year in August, BART announced a design breakthrough hailed as music to our riders’ ears: a small change in the way train wheels contact
Podcast: A new era arrives for escalators at BART
Transcript below: HOST: “BART is making its largest investment in escalators in decades with a generational project, and soon riders will experience the difference, welcome to “Hidden Tracks Stories from BART.” On this edition of Hidden Tracks will dig deep into the Market Street Escalators Renovation Project
BART releases overview of station cleaning, maintenance
Cleaning and maintaining our stations is a priority for us at BART and we understand the importance of providing a good experience for our riders passing through one of our 45 stations. With 130 million riders a year and weekday ridership exceeding 430,000 trips, wear and tear, grime, and dirt can build up