AC Transit will consider replacing its popular F line — which connects Berkeley to Emeryville, Oakland and San Francisco — at a board of directors meeting Wednesday. Read More…
The fact that the two sides of the BART battle have not come to an agreement over new employee contracts following a four-day worker strike — two days of which were spent not talking — is evident of a lack of urgency. BART service resumed Friday afternoon following the strike Read More…
Under fire after an audit report questioned its use of force and organization, the Bay Area Rapid Transit Police Department unveiled plans Tuesday for a zoning structure that aims to reduce crime. BART’s new Zone Geographical Policing Structure is the department’s most recent answer to recommendations made by the 2011 Read More…
In the wake of several protests and conflicts since a Bay Area Rapid Transit police officers shot and killed unarmed passenger Oscar Grant III on Jan. 1, 2009, the transit agency’s police force released Wednesday for the first time an annual report on internal affairs investigations in 2010. The report Read More…
Following the failure of a similar proposal in June, BART is considering extending its hours Friday nights and delaying service on Saturday mornings. Because public input showed that Saturday delays would have adversely affected low-income and minority passengers, the BART Board of Directors deferred the previous proposal, which would have Read More…
The BART Board of Directors voted Thursday to replace the wool seats in 100 BART cars with vinyl ones over the next six to nine months. In May, BART held interactive seat labs around the Bay Area, where riders were given a chance to try out different types of seats Read More…
Proposed cuts to federal transportation across the country would undoubtedly adversely affect Bay Area local services such as Caltrain, BART and AC Transit. Even though the U.S. House of Representatives is working on a bill that could cut up to 34 percent of federal funding to public transportation, Senator Barbara Read More…
Grace Crunican, Bay Area Rapid Transit’s new general manager, extended an open hand to meet with protesters and other commuters who have complaints about the transit system.
Following the detention of at least six journalists at a protest Thursday, Bay Area Rapid Transit officials have proposed new guidelines for media that would create a designated area in the station for reporters to cover protests. The idea is to have reporters stand behind a line to ensure their Read More…
Bay Area Rapid Transit appointed Grace Crunican, a transportation professional who formerly worked for the Clinton administration, to be its new general manager at a special board meeting Wednesday. BART’s Board of Directors voted 8-1 in favor of Crunican, whose new duties will include managing capital budgets totaling about $1.4 Read More…
