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BART Board of Directors approves two-year budget

On June 8th, the BART Board of Directors approved a two-year budget that addresses the agency’s highly uncertain, challenging financial outlook. Although the budget is balanced for FY24, which begins July 1st, a $93 million deficit looms for FY25. “Despite our best efforts to hold the line on expenses and

BART employees volunteer to spruce up downtown Oakland

In partnership with the Oakland City Council, over 125 BART employees and their friends and families helped to clean Oakland’s downtown South of Broadway neighborhood today. "The South of Broadway area, which covers 12th Street to 17th Street area between Madison Street to Franklin Street, took the brunt of

BART issues statement on union leadership’s labor lawsuit

BART spokeswoman Alicia Trost issued the following statement on union leadership’s decision to pursue legal action: “This unnecessary action will only delay resolution to BART’s labor contract. A lawsuit is not needed to correct a mistake. When mistakes are made in contract negotiations they are corrected

Attend a workshop on the Downtown Berkeley BART Plaza redesign

Come help redesign the Downtown Berkeley BART Plaza & transit area. How can we improve the BART Plaza area? What do you like? What needs to change? What would you like to see? Attend a Community Workshop January 23 7-9 p.m. in the MultiPurpose Room of the North Berkeley Senior Center @1901 Hearst Ave. at MLK

BART announces Thursday's Spare the Air ridership results

BART estimates 28,000 additional passengers or 358,000 total riders, are taking advantage of Thursday's (July 20) free BART rides. That's 8.5% jump in ridership for a typical Thursday. During the first five Spare the Air days this year, BART estimates that a total of 131,000 additional people have steered

BART expands its involvement in student engineering competition

BART sponsoring more schools as they try to follow in footsteps of 2005 Future City regional winner BART will expand its involvement in the Future City engineering competition Saturday, January 7, 2006 when it invites eight teams from middle schools in San Francisco, Oakland and Richmond to the BART

BART issues notice of disadvantaged business enterprise goal

In accordance with requirements of the U.S Department of Transportation (USDOT) as set forth in 49 CFR Part 26, the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) hereby notifies the public that it has set an overall Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) goal for federally funded contracts during the

BART responds to drought with water reduction action plan

BART applauds the Governor’s call for mandatory water reduction statewide. For over a year now BART has put into place water reduction strategies to respond to the drought. Action items are both short term and long term and align with BART’s environmental and sustainability policies. “BART has made a