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Self Defense Tip for BART Users: RUN!!!!
Streetsblog PSA : If someone on your train is waving chainsaws and threatening to chop someone's head off, run--don't just film it for your social media.
November 1, 2018
Eyes on the Street: Berkeley BART Makeover
New entrances and a new plaza opened late last week
October 23, 2018
Geary Subway? New Transbay Tube? Clean Trains? BART Candidates Discuss
SF Transit Riders hears from the six candidates for BART Board District 8, San Francisco
September 19, 2018
Legislative Update: Housing at BART Stations
Building housing at BART stations should be a no-brainer, and BART has committed to it. But cities resist. A.B. 2923 would make it easier by giving BART authority to zone its lots rather than waiting for cities to do so.
September 6, 2018
BART Board Hears Proposed Security Measures
More cameras, better data management, hardening the system--but opponents fear privacy invasion and police abuses
August 10, 2018
BART General Manager Proposes a ‘Safety and Security Action Plan’
BART General Manager Grace Crunican will be seeking BART Board approval for a $28 million “comprehensive Safety and Security Action Plan.”
August 7, 2018
Streetsblog Q&A with BART Board Candidate Janice Li
Late last week, Janice Li, Advocacy Director for the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, stopped by City Hall to pull papers and officially begin her campaign for the District 8 seat of the BART Board
July 24, 2018
Editorial: Impressions of BART’s New Line to Antioch
A little over a week ago, BART held a community ribbon-cutting celebration for its new ten-mile, two-station extension from the end of the Pittsburg/Bay Point line to Antioch.
June 6, 2018
BART, BART, Muni for Bay Area Memorial Day Weekend Roundup
The BART Board, by a 5 to 4 vote, rejected the proposed Livermore extension of the Dublin/Pleasanton line down the center of I-580.
May 25, 2018
Streetsblog Editorial: BART Needs to Kill the Freeway Widening, Livermore Extension
The BART Board of Directors is scheduled to vote on a $1.6 billion investment on an extension to Livermore that would still not connect BART riders to downtown Livermore nor other regional rail.
May 24, 2018