BART Proposes Parcel Tax To Pay For New Cars
Needing a new fleet of cars for the expected increase in ridership over the next 20 years, BART is proposing a parcel tax to help foot some of the bill.
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Needing a new fleet of cars for the expected increase in ridership over the next 20 years, BART is proposing a parcel tax to help foot some of the bill.
Bay Area Rapid Transit police officers may each get their own stun gun instead of having to check the devices out of a common pool.
Most of us are aware that our country's infrastructure could use a little work, but a new report reveals just how bad things really are, including in portions of the Bay Area.
After a chorus of passenger complaints the past few years, Bay Area Rapid Transit officials said Thursday they are ready to spend millions to clean up the transit system's rolling stock.
BART's new interim general manager says stopping the Oakland Airport Connector project could cost the transit agency tens of million of dollars.
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that BART, as an organization, cannot be held legally responsible for the 2009 shooting death of Oscar Grant III at Oakland's Fruitvale Station.
Minor delays on BART trains in Oakland Friday morning were apparently caused by an unruly passenger talking loudly about weapons of mass destruction, a passenger said on the microblogging website Twitter.
Starting Thursday, BART riders passing through the Millbrae BART station will be able to check out one of 800 books from an automated library.
Some of the first information gleaned from Osama bin Laden's compound indicates al-Qaida considered attacking U.S. trains.
Osama Bin Laden's death has mass transit agencies across the US preparing for retaliatory attacks, but they're also preparing for major cuts in federal funding.
BART stations had increased security and were on a high-risk alert Monday as a precaution against retaliation attacks following the death of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden on Sunday, a BART spokesman said.
The financial fallout appears to continue for BART, following the recent and very public - not to mention expensive - exit of general manager Dorothy Dugger.
Transportation expert Rod Diridon Sr., for whom the station is named, said the addition of BART and high speed rail could give San Jose the busiest train station in North America.
The Bay Area Rapid Transit Agency is considering another test of late-night train service.
A BART Director is looking to halt work on the much-talked about Oakland Airport Connector project.
Authorities are still working to determine how a San Francisco man died after he apparently suffered some sort of medical emergency and fell on an escalator at the Powell Street transit station last week.
BART has created an interactive research lab to obtain feedback on its future fleet of train cars, transit officials said.
Service has resumed at the Bay Area Rapid Transit 16th Street Mission station in San Francisco following a brief police chase of a suspected rapist, police spokesman Officer Albie Esparza said.
BART officials decided to create a police auditor position and have a citizen review board following the shooting death of unarmed passenger Oscar Grant III.
A transgender woman was attacked near a Bay Area Rapid Transit station two weeks ago, prompting the LGBT community to organize a rally Friday night.
The BART Board of Directors is entertaining a number of ideas, many designed to address the cleanliness of trains and train stations.
BART directors voted 6-3 Thursday to hire former general counsel Sherwood Wakeman to serve as the transit agency's interim general manager until it finds a permanent replacement for Dorothy Dugger, who announced her resignation on Wednesday.
Two men arrested for looting after the verdict in the Oscar Grant case were ordered to pay $25,000 to the owner of an Oakland jewelry store that was robbed.
Bay Area Rapid Transit General Manager Dorothy Dugger submitted a letter of resignation Wednesday morning and will step down on April 22, BART officials said.
BART's preliminary budget for the 2012 fiscal year is showing a surplus of between $10 and $28 million, money that will be used to spruce up the agency's trains.
