BART Snags Extra $11 Million Due To Higher Ridership
San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit officials say higher ridership and a tax boost have brought in an extra $11 million.
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San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit officials say higher ridership and a tax boost have brought in an extra $11 million.
Four additional trains will run in each direction on the line during the hour between 7 and 8 p.m. Riders along the line can expect trains roughly every seven and a half minutes, rather than every fifteen minutes, according to BART spokesman Jim Allison.
Passenger service is now expected to start in 2017, a year earlier than previously scheduled.
BART and Oakland Police have teamed up to combat an increase in street robberies over the past few months. They're handing out flyers on how to avoid being a robbery victim and how to protect yourself.
The Glen Park BART station in San Francisco has reopened following an incident in which a person was struck by a train and all trains should be running on time again.
BART passengers experienced major delays Friday afternoon because of a person under a train at the Lake Merritt station, according to a dispatcher.
One of the Bay Area's largest transit agencies is becoming even busier. BART ridership was up nearly 7% in the latest fiscal quarter, compared to the same time period last year. That marks 20 consecutive months of growth in BART's ridership.
In an effort to double the number of bicyclists who commute using BART, the service is launching a five-week, Friday's only experiment by dropping its rush-hour bike ban beginning August 3rd.
Two teenage boys were arrested earlier this month after allegedly robbing a BART rider of a cellphone in San Francisco, a BART police spokeswoman said Tuesday.
Starting on Friday, August 3, bike riders can take their wheels on Bay Area Rapid Transit trains during commute hours, normally a no-no for cyclists throughout the year.
BART's southward extension toward San Jose is on track with the Warm Springs Station set to open in 2015.
KCBS, CBS 5 and San Francisco Chronicle Insider Phil Matier said many of the broken escalators are the result of human excrement gumming up its gears.
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency plans to upgrade its aging bus fleet with the help of more than $21 million in federal grants, city officials announced Monday.
The U.S. Department of Transportation announced $45.7 million in transit related grants for the San Francisco Bay Area on Monday.
Bay Area Rapid Transit passengers in and out of the East Bay should expect some travel problems Saturday morning with a grass fire near the Pleasant Hill station and a power outage at the downtown Berkeley station, according to BART Central.
A joint CBS 5 and California Watch investigation into an Oakland school that sends students out panhandling at BART stations has prompted the transit agency to take action.
Construction on the future BART line to San Jose took a big step forward Thursday when crews began demolishing five vacant industrial buildings east of the Flea Market.
A body was found this afternoon in the bushes near the Dublin/Pleasanton BART station parking lot, a BART police lieutenant said.
Police officers and prosecutors who work in the four counties served by Bay Area Rapid Transit are eligible for smartcards that allow them to ride for free when they are off duty, BART officials announced Wednesday.
The foundations for the people mover that will connect Oakland International Airport to Bay Area Rapid Transit have been finished, officials announced Friday.
A power outage that left over 7,000 PG&E customers in Berkeley without power and closed the downtown BART station Tuesday night was caused by an underground fire, officials said.
A former Bay Area Rapid Transit station agent who gave a needy teenager $300 of unused transit tickets has lost his appeal to keep his job.
Officials said Tuesday afternoon that foul play is not suspected in the death of a man who was found slumped over on the floor of a Bay Area Rapid Transit train Tuesday.
A 17-year-old Oakland boy is facing charges after police say he punched a teenage girl in the face at a BART station.
Federal authorities have confirmed that arson was to blame for a fire that shut down Bay Area Rapid Transit train service into and out of San Francisco earlier this month.
