Chris Filippi Tag | The Daily Californian

Friday, December 31, 2021

Celebrate New Year’s Eve with free rides, longer hours for Bay Area public transit

BART will be extending its hours with a 1 a.m. dispatch for New Year's Eve. Bay Area public transportation services AC Transit and San Francisco's Muni will be eliminating fares from Dec. 31 at 8 p.m. until New Year's Day at 5 a.m.

Public transportation services in the Bay Area will eliminate fares and extend hours on New Year’s Eve to accommodate celebrators and workers with late-night shifts.
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Alameda County

Thursday, March 18, 2021

BART schedule to change March 22 to encourage social distancing

With Bay Area counties in the red tier of California’s COVID-19 reopening plans, BART will be making changes to its schedule starting March 22 to accommodate the region’s progress.
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City

Sunday, February 21, 2021

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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City

Wednesday, January 27, 2021

BART to install denser filters onto its fleet to help mitigate COVID-19

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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Crime & Courts

Wednesday, January 13, 2021

BART adopts policing reforms after report shows racial disparities

BART police is adopting six recommendations after an outside study showed racial disparities in police stops and use of force.
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City

Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Clipper START program provides discounts to low-income transit riders

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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City

Thursday, August 20, 2020

Bay Area transit agencies implement COVID-19 safety measures

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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Crime & Courts

Tuesday, August 6, 2019

BART police look for suspect of stabbing at Downtown Berkeley station

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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City

Friday, May 31, 2019

BART police begin deploying Narcan to combat opioid overdoses

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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Crime & Courts

Monday, June 18, 2018

More than half of BART police use-of-force incidents in 2017 involved Black men, report finds

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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Topics

Celebrate New Year’s Eve with free rides, longer hours for Bay Area public transit

BART schedule to change March 22 to encourage social distancing

BART offers free rides from Oakland COVID-19 vaccination site

BART to install denser filters onto its fleet to help mitigate COVID-19

BART adopts policing reforms after report shows racial disparities

Clipper START program provides discounts to low-income transit riders

Bay Area transit agencies implement COVID-19 safety measures

BART police look for suspect of stabbing at Downtown Berkeley station

BART police begin deploying Narcan to combat opioid overdoses

More than half of BART police use-of-force incidents in 2017 involved Black men, report finds