Bay Area Rapid Transit

WATCH: BART Agent Fired For Helping Teen In Need

Robin Wilkey | Posted 05.02.2012

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A BART station agent was fired for giving unused train tickets to a 16-year-old boy in need to help him pay for his commute to school, according to th...

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WATCH: Meet BART Seats 2.0 -- Now With Less Gross Carpeting

Aaron Sankin | Posted 04.04.2012

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Here's a fun game: Open this link in a new tab on your browser, start playing the video and then come back to this page and play the clip situated abo...

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BART Plagued By Yet Another Problem

| Posted 04.09.2012

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This article comes to us courtesy of California Watch. By Agustin Armendariz and Mihir Zaveri Jay Fraser knows what it's like to lock a bicycle ...

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PHOTOS: Shiny New BART Cars Spark Outrage

HuffingtonPost.com | Aaron Sankin | Posted 01.31.2012

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California's high speed rail isn't the only ambitious Bay Area train project running into controversy these days. BART's plan to completely replace...

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WATCH: HUGE News For BART

Robin Wilkey | Posted 01.11.2012

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On Tuesday, the United States Department of Transportation recommended approval for $900 million in funding for the Santa Clara Valley Transportation ...

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PHOTOS: Where Are All These People Going With No Pants On?

Aaron Sankin | Posted 01.09.2012

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Seeing one person on a BART train not wearing pants isn't anything to write home about--a funny story good for a chuckle around the water cooler the n...

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BART Begins Work On Newest Station -- And Critics Aren't Happy

Carly Schwartz | Posted 03.04.2012

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Construction on the Bay Area Rapid Transit system's extension to the Oakland Airport began this week, and critics of the project are none too pleased....

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Big Changes At BART

Robin Wilkey | Posted 12.09.2011

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On Thursday, the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority board voted to award a $772 million contract for a ten-mile BART extension in Santa Clara...

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BART Introduces New Cellphone Policy

AP | By PAUL ELIAS | Posted 02.01.2012

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SAN FRANCISCO -- The agency that oversees the San Francisco area transit system on Thursday authorized police to turn off wireless communications in t...

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FINALLY: BART Agrees To Make Long-Awaited Change

Aaron Sankin | Posted 11.18.2011

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Before BART became a hotbed of anti-police unrest this summer, if the transit agency was known for one thing, it was the carpet. Carpet on the floors,...

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Embattled BART Spokesman Removed

Aaron Sankin | Posted 11.14.2011

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It has not been an easy few months for former BART spokesman Linton Johnson. Johnson, who has been on leave since late August, has returned to a po...

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VIRTUALLY ANONYMOUS: Are The BART Protests Finally Losing Steam?

Carly Schwartz | Posted 11.27.2011

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It's been a long summer of discontent for the Bay Area Rapid Transit System. Every Monday evening for the past two months, commuters and BART offic...

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Demonstrators To Block Gates At Thursday's BART Protest

Aaron Sankin | Posted 11.08.2011

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On Thursday, a group of anti-BART activists plan to physically block the fare gates at the Powell Street BART station with the intention of requiring ...

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Does White Make Right? Racism and Gay-Shaming Drown Bay Area Protests

Colorlines | Channing Kennedy | Posted 11.01.2011

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Chaos continues to surround the ongoing protests against administrators of the Bay Area Rapid Transit system—and the cause is attracting the kind of...

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Are BART Police Necessary?

HuffingtonPost.com | Aaron Sankin | Posted 10.31.2011

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"No justice, no peace; disband the BART Police." That slogan has become the rallying cry for the dozens of protesters who have been gathering at th...

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FCC Probing Wireless Blocking By San Francisco Authorities

NationalJournal | Sara Jerome | Posted 10.16.2011

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The Federal Communications Commission is investigating actions last week by the transportation authority in San Francisco which interrupted wireless s...

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PHOTOS: Protesters Swarm BART, Closing Down Multiple Stations And Trapping Commuters

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 10.15.2011

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By PAUL ELIAS, Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Rush-hour protests at subway stations in the San Francisco Bay area brought about 100 demonst...

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BART Prepares For More Protests As Experts Deem Website Easy Target

AP | PAUL ELIAS | Posted 10.15.2011

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SAN FRANCISCO — Rush-hour protests prompted the closure of four San Francisco subway stations and sent hundreds of commuters into the sidewalks ...

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Safety Issue Or Free Speech Violation?

AP | Posted 10.15.2011

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By Terry Collins, Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- An illegal, Orwellian violation of free-speech rights? Or just a smart tactic to protect t...

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Infamous Group Hacks BART Website, Leaks Private User Information

AP | JOHN S. MARSHALL | Posted 10.14.2011

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SAN FRANCISCO — Hackers broke into a website for San Francisco's mass transit system Sunday and posted contact information for more than 2,000 s...

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Cellphone Reception Blocked To Hinder Protest

AP | By TERRY COLLINS | Posted 10.13.2011

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SAN FRANCISCO -- A decision by San Francisco Bay Area transit officials to cut off cell phone service at some of its stations to thwart a planned prot...

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San Francisco Police Kill Man On Transit Platform

AP | Posted 09.03.2011

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SAN FRANCISCO — A man reportedly armed with a knife on a Bay Area Rapid Transit station platform was shot and killed by police, transit official...

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A Killing, The Aftermath, The Sentence: Share Your Thoughts

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 05.25.2011

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By Youth Radio Editors LOS ANGELES AND OAKLAND-In Los Angeles this morning, the sentencing hearing begins for former transit cop, Johannes Mehserle, ...

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Two Cities, Two protests: Oscar Grant Murder Trial

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 05.25.2011

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It was LA's turn to organize a protest to support Oscar Grant's family. Last Monday, more than 60 Grant supporters gathered outside the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center.

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