BART To Receive $5 Million Federal Grant To Protect Trackside Workers
The Federal Transit Administration is awarding BART a $5 million grant to develop a new technology to protect track-side workers.
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The Federal Transit Administration is awarding BART a $5 million grant to develop a new technology to protect track-side workers.
Smoke filling the Powell Street station caused a scare for some Bay Area Rapid Transit commuters Friday morning.
BART directors voted unanimously Thursday to give final approval to an ordinance that allows the transit agency to ban electronic cigarettes on its trains and in its stations.
This week's warning sent out to BART riders that they may have been exposed to measles is raising more questions about vaccinations and who is most susceptible to the highly-contagious disease.
A new KPIX 5 / SurveyUSA poll found many in the Bay Area want charges upheld against 14 protesters who blocked a BART train on Black Friday, causing major delays. The poll comes amid a push among the protesters and some BART officials to drop the case.
Bay Area Rapid Transit riders may have been exposed to measles last week from a passenger traveling between the East Bay and San Francisco, according to public health officials.
It seems like trains and buses are more packed than ever. But overall, the Bay Area is actually depending less on public transit.
With the San Francisco Bay Area economy booming, a plan to build a second tube for BART trains under San Francisco Bay is getting renewed attention.
Bay Area Rapid Transit is looking to improve service after numbers released Thursday from a recent revealed customer satisfaction with the transportation service has fallen.
Two people were injured over the weekend near the 16th and Mission Street BART station in separate stabbing incidents, one of which where the victim is not cooperating with police.
BART to San Jose's construction project is almost a year ahead of schedule, but it will close the intersection of Sierra Rd. and Lundy Ave. for nine months of trench digging.
San Francisco fire personnel and BART police are responding to a report of a stabbing involving a juvenile at the 16th Street BART station Sunday evening, according to a fire dispatcher.
An overflow crowd of protesters showed up to BART's board of directors meeting on Thursday evening to demanding an end to the prosecution of the 14 Black Friday protesters who temporarily shut down the transit service in West Oakland and may have to pay $70,000 in restitution.
A PG&E spokesperson has confirmed a massive power outage Tuesday afternoon in the East Bay affecting 38,000 homes and businesses, mostly in Berkeley.
A large crowd of protesters left Fruitvale BART station in Oakland Monday afternoon, police said.
A group of Occupy protesters have locked themselves to an entrance of the Oakland Federal Building in solidarity with the BART protests in San Francisco Friday morning.
All BART station have reopened after ongoing protests in San Francisco closed the Embarcadero, Montgomery and Powell stations Friday morning, BART officials said.
Facebook briefly took down the event page of an activist group organizing a protest set for Friday morning on the underground platform of BART's Montgomery Street Station in downtown San Francisco.
A male who witnesses said jumped in front of a BART train was killed on the Powell Street station tracks in San Francisco Wednesday morning, closing the station and causing major delays systemwide.
Organizers are planning a protest at the Montgomery BART Station Friday, January 16th in solidarity with the Black Friday BART protesters who were arrested last year.
BART is looking into the possibility of community service rather than financial restitution for 14 protesters who shut down the transit system at the West Oakland station on Black Friday, agency officials said this week.
BART's crime analyst is figuring out, from the times and locations of the crimes and surveillance video, the pattern of the thefts, and officers have been able to nab potential thieves.
Some Bay Area BART riders were in no hurry to shut down a an argument between two women who started loudly exchanging words on a platform before getting into a knock-down brawl on a crowded train.
BART police are looking for a suspect or suspects that left a man injured on Tuesday night.
Parking fees at multiple BART stations are expected to go up by 50 cents later this month.
