Playoffs Could Be A Ridership Home Run For BART
The Bay Area's largest mass transit agency is hoping to benefit from the throngs of baseball fans with tickets to playoff games at AT&T Park.
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The Bay Area's largest mass transit agency is hoping to benefit from the throngs of baseball fans with tickets to playoff games at AT&T Park.
BART's 44th station is scheduled to open next Spring and the transit agency is now setting fares to how much it should cost to use it.
It's full steam ahead for BART's extension to Antioch, after the transit agency awarded the first construction contract for the project.
Plenty of commuters are changing their driving habits because of the new, higher toll to cross the span into San Francisco.
A BART train was damaged when it struck a deer on the tracks near the Pleasant Hill station on Friday night, a spokesman said.
A proposal to step up advertising revenue by using a variety of methods on trains, in stations and right-of-ways on BART property met with mixed reviews at the transit system's board meeting Thursday morning, as the system looks for ways to ease a projected budget deficit next year.
A small, black poodle held up BART trains in Oakland Thursday morning after it hopped off a train and onto the tracks, a BART spokesman said.
A newspaper is reporting that Alameda County prosecutors spent more than $25,000 on airfare and $55,000 on lodging during the Los Angeles trial of a transit officer who officer shot and killed an unarmed passenger.
