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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
BART Launches Open Public Records Request Portal
In an effort to make the records request process easier for the public, and to improve transparency and efficiency, BART has implemented a new, open public records portal at https://bart.nextrequest.com/. Built by San Francisco-based software company NextRequest, the portal helps BART streamline processes
BART doubles down on cleaning with new hiring of cleaners
As part of BART’s new General Manager Bob Powers' plan to put the riders first and improve the customer experience through cleaner stations, BART plans to hire 15 cleaners over the next six months. The job posting went up this week and can be found at https://www.bart.gov/jobs listed as job opening 8315 for
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 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
New on BART: demo cars with handstraps and bike spaces
We’ve had some inquiries from customers curious about a couple of new features they’ve noticed on BART cars marked as "demonstration cars." They've asked about the handstraps hanging from the bars at the top of the cars and about the large blue "Bike Space" decals marking a priority space for bikes. Here’s
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 Police to ensure safe and speedy evacuations of stations
Starting Monday, July 21, 2014, BART Police began to focus on its legal obligation to evacuate a station in an emergency from the furthest corners of the platforms in four to six minutes or less as required in the California Building Code Section 433 pertaining to transit systems. Ensuring hallways are not
Celebrate SF Pride 2019 and take BART to the Parade
The 49th annual San Francisco Pride Celebration Parade will be held on Sunday, June 30th and BART will increase service to carry participants to and from the festivities. BART will open at 8am and will run Dublin/Pleasanton trains to Daly City rather than turning them around at MacArthur Station. There will