BART Protesters March For 5th Consecutive Monday
About two-dozen anti-BART protesters marched along San Francisco's Market Street Monday evening in the fifth consecutive Monday rush-hour demonstration.
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About two-dozen anti-BART protesters marched along San Francisco's Market Street Monday evening in the fifth consecutive Monday rush-hour demonstration.
Another Monday means another protest at downtown San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit stations.
A few hours after protests ended at one Bay Area Rapid Transit station in San Francisco on Thursday, vandals destroyed machines and sprayed graffiti at another BART station across the city, an agency spokeswoman said.
A man was seriously injured in a shooting near the Balboa Park BART station in San Francisco on Thursday morning, police said Friday.
More than 20 protesters were arrested at San Francisco's Powell Street station Thursday evening at a rally organized by a group whose goal is to disband the Bay Area Rapid Transit Police Department.
Bay Area Rapid Transit and San Francisco police have arrested a man suspected of stabbing a passenger at the Balboa Park station Thursday morning, a BART spokesman said.
As one protest group prepped for its fourth consecutive Monday protest at the Civic Center Bay Area Rapid Transit station Monday evening, another activist organization announced plans for a demonstration against BART police on Thursday.
Emergency officials are responding to a report of a person underneath a train at BART's Bay Fair station in San Leandro, a transit official said.
Bay Area Rapid Transit directors voted 8-1 Wednesday to appoint former Seattle transportation chief Grace Crunican as BART's new general manager.
For the third consecutive Monday, BART officials had warned commuters that stations may be closed due to this planned protest by the hacker group "Anonymous."
BART advised passengers to be prepared for possible stations closures during the Monday evening commute if protesters once again try to disrupt train service.
We are learning more about the 35 who people were arrested during Monday evening's BART protest, which shut down two downtown San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit stations at several points throughout the roving demonstration.
Two shootings in West Oakland Tuesday night and Wednesday morning left one person dead and a man injured, according to police.
The search for a new general manager for Bay Area Rapid Transit is underway in earnest, and the BART Board of Directors met for hours in closed session Thursday morning to discuss a possible hire.
Police Chief Kenton Rainey said that arrests will continue if protesters continue to gather on station platforms at future demonstrations.
Leaders of the San Francisco Bay Area's transit agency said they may adopt a policy allowing police to turn off wireless communications on train platforms but only in extreme public safety circumstances. The board of the Bay Area Rapid Transit system held a special public meeting Wednesday to discuss the issue.
BART directors were set to hold a special meeting Wednesday morning to discuss the transit agency's decision to shut down cellphone service at stations in an effort to thwart a planned protest.
The group Anonymous said they already plan to hold another protest next Monday and will continue to do so until they "get what they want."
A protest prompted BART to close Civic Center and Powell Street stations in San Francisco several times Monday evening.
Bay Area Rapid Transit officials are again warning passengers of a possible service delay during the Monday evening commute through San Francisco on word of a planned protest at the Civic Center station.
With the threat of another disruptive protest looming, BART officials issued a letter to BART customers Saturday defending BART's decision to interrupt cellphone service to prevent a protest on Aug. 11, and announcing that the issue would be discussed at a board meeting Wednesday.
Recent protests of the BART system have been fueled by computer hackings and street demonstrations by a group known as Anonymous. One man who claims to be a part of the clandestine "hactivist" squad agreed to talk to CBS 5.
The union representing train operators and station agents said there is a lack of communication and no plan in place to deal with the numerous issues that BART has faced over the last month.
The Bay Area Rapid Transit agency has been targeted again by hackers, who posted personal information on 100 police officers online Wednesday.
The Federal Communications Commission is opening an investigation into the Bay Area Rapid Transit's shutdown of cell service in order to disrupt a planned protest.
