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BART has repaired ten escalators this week as it continues a full court press to tackle an unusually large number of escalator outages. Four of the escalators returned to service are at BART’s four downtown San Francisco stations, the busiest in the system. As of 9AM Friday, 19 station escalators remain out

Beginning on February 11, 2019, BART's start of service will shift from 4 am to 5 am systemwide for a massive project that will seismically retrofit the Transbay Tube. About 2,900 riders enter our system in that first hour of service. BART conducted extensive outreach this past spring which included surveys

BART is praising one of its Station Agents after she administered CPR to a patron that had collapsed on the platform of the Castro Valley Station yesterday morning. At about 7:50 a.m. on Monday, February 22, 2016, during the height of the morning commute, a rider knocked on the station agent booth window and

The sounds of Reggae, Jazz, and Folk music will bring joy to BART riders in the month of October as the latest “welcome back” gesture by the agency to encourage the return to transit and reinforce the role public transit plays in fueling the Bay Area’s economy and culture. BART and Taylor Street Production

Today the BART Board of Directors put the brakes on the next regularly scheduled fare increase. Instead of ticket prices going up on January 1, 2012 as originally planned, they won’t increase until six months later – on July 1, 2012. This was the last piece of the Board’s overall plan to thank riders for

Oakland Airport Connector on fast track to construction BART is looking for industry input to begin the process of building the long-awaited transit connection between the Oakland Airport and the Coliseum BART Station that will be quicker, easier and more efficient than the current connection – the AirBART

One year following the launch of BART’s groundbreaking “ Not One More Girl” campaign to bring awareness to sexual harassment on transit, rider survey data indicates the initiative is helping reduce harassment and improve the perception of safety on BART. BART has been working with the Alliance for Girls

Resolution emphasizes that BART will seek prosecution to fullest extent of the law The BART Board today expressed its solidarity with front line employees such as Station Agents and Train Operators by unanimously passing a resolution that expresses “support for the prosecution of attacks on front line staff

50,000 riders expected to take BART to SFO airport BART officials expect ridership to the San Francisco International Airport (SFO) Station during Christmas week to soar even above last year's record-setting levels. From December 21 to December 27, BART is predicting 50,000 people will use the SFO Station

Lockers at Castro Valley Station Over the last few months BART has installed 336 new electronic bike lockers at 19 stations. This is the second deployment of lockers around the BART system. The first shared-use electronic lockers started appearing at BART stations in 2008. BART now has more than 500