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BART's next station named: Warm Springs/South Fremont

BART customers eagerly awaiting service to Silicon Valley now have a name to go with a place: Warm Springs/South Fremont Station. The Board of Directors voted today to combine history and practicality in officially naming the future station at the end of the Warm Springs Extension, a key link in BART to San

BART expects record ridership to SFO during holiday week

BART is expecting record ridership to San Francisco International Airport (SFO) during the 2006 holiday travel period. From December 21 thru December 27, BART expects 52,000 passengers or a 5% increase in riders who will take BART to and from SFO this year compared with the same time period last year. LAST

TransLink passes all BART tests, ready for summertime launch

The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) has declared that the TransLink smart card transit-fare payment program is "Revenue Ready" for the BART system. This declaration is a major contractual milestone signifying that TransLink has successfully passed all laboratory and field tests. BART expects that

BART to run longer trains for sports fans and weekend festivals

BART will operate longer trains to serve the crowds heading to sports events and ethnic festivals this weekend. Also on Sunday, San Francisco "Sunday Street" revelers can ride BART to link to Muni to get to this month’s Sunday Streets event, which promotes a safe, fun, car-free day when people can get out and

Discarded grocery bags give BART passengers a greener ride

BART's plastic ties remove equivalent of 1.1 million grocery bags from landfills Little do BART passengers know that many of them are riding the rails tied together with discarded grocery bags and old milk bottles. It's all part of BART's effort to get even greener. "Don't panic, there's nothing unsafe going

BART receives $750,000 DOT grant for workforce development

On August 25th, U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx announced $9.5 million in grants to go toward training and developing tomorrow’s transportation workforce, $750,000 of which will go to BART. Responsive government is dependent on skilled public employees, and building careers in transit

Top engineering group gives BART Director top honors

Director Lynette Sweet wins "2005 Public Official of the Year" While most people were at home with their families or even fast asleep, BART Director Lynette Sweet was either taking dozens of reporters on a 2 a.m. tour of BART's Transbay Tube or spending countless evenings and weekends talking to community

BART plans to issue 2022 general obligation green bonds

BART is preparing to offer its Series 2022 issuance of Green Bonds, certified by the Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI). BART plans to hold an order period exclusively for individual investors on May 10, 2022, with priority granted to BART District residents. The Series 2022 Green Bonds are General Obligation

Podcast: An inside look at BART inspires East Bay teens

BART is making it a priority to reach out to young people. In the latest edition of "Hidden Tracks: Stories from BART" we learn more about how BART is teaming up with U.C. Berkeley on the Y-Plan (Youth – Plan, Learn, Act, Now). It’s an educational strategy that empowers young people to take on real-world

BART wins overall championship at 2019 International Rail Rodeo

BART's Rail Rodeo Team (from second to left to fifth in right), with Superintendant of Richmond Shop Scott Fitzgerald (fourth from right), BART Assistant Chief Transportation Officer Paula Fraser (third from right), and Deputy General Manager Robert Powers (second from right), at the awards dinner in Toronto