BART offers free rides from Oakland COVID-19 vaccination site

BART is offering free rides home to users of Oakland Coliseum’s mass COVID-19 vaccination site, which opened Tuesday and is accessible from the Coliseum BART station.
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BART is offering free rides home to users of Oakland Coliseum’s mass COVID-19 vaccination site, which opened Tuesday and is accessible from the Coliseum BART station.
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After a successful pilot of the program, BART began the installation of denser filters throughout its fleet as part of a multitiered plan aimed toward passenger safety during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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BART police is adopting six recommendations after an outside study showed racial disparities in police stops and use of force.
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Eligible low-income Bay Area transit riders may receive transit fare discounts through the Clipper START program, as implemented by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, or MTC.
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Twenty-five Bay Area transit agencies and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission collaborated to create the Riding Together: Bay Area Healthy Transit Plan in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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A man and a woman were hospitalized after they were attacked and stabbed early Tuesday morning while exiting the Downtown Berkeley BART station.
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Bay Area Rapid Transit police are beginning to deploy the opioid antidote naloxone, also known by the brand name Narcan, as a tool to combat overdoses, according to a May 24 BART press release.
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While Black people constitute 12 percent of BART customers according to the most recent data, which is from 2015, the report presented to the BART Police Citizen Review Board at its June 11 meeting found that among all the use-of-force incidents in 2017, 50.9 percent involved Black males and 14.7 percent involved Black females.
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The budget allocates $1.6 million to increase security measures and reduce encampments on BART properties, and $300,000 to hire two additional BART police dispatchers.
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The total number of thefts involving electronic devices at BART stations has decreased over the last few months, likely as a result of BART Police Department’s efforts to crack down on crime, said BART spokesperson Chris Filippi.
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