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Take BART to the 2025 Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco

Promotional image for the San Francisco Chinese New Year Parade on February 15, 2025, featuring a festive red and yellow design. Includes travel directions using BART with map showing routes from Embarcadero, Powell St, and Montgomery St stations to Chinatown. Highlights include a free ride option on BART, real-time departure information, and a reminder to plan ahead and add alerts via the BART app. A cartoon snake and a graphic reading "Let's go!" are also depicted.

San Francisco’s annual Chinese New Year Parade will take place on Saturday, February 15, starting at 5:15pm. 2025 is the Year of the Snake, which represents wisdom, intuition, and transformation! For the first time ever, the parade will close out with a choreographed drone light that will illuminate the sky over the Embarcadero at approx. 8pm.

The Chinese New Year Parade is the largest illuminated night parade in the country, and thousands of people will gather along Market Street to celebrate. Transit is the best way to get there.

Montgomery Station is the closest BART station to the start of the parade, at Market and 2nd streets. Embarcadero and Powell St. stations are also close to the parade route. Follow the rider guide above for reference. 

The BARTmobile will be zooming along the parade route along with a cohort of BART staff and their families, who will be wearing BART's 2025 Lunar New Year shirt. The shirts are available for purchase in adult, youth, and toddler sizes on Railgoods.com, as well as special BARTy x Year of the Snake stickers.

If you are planning to visit Chinatown to celebrate the new year, take BART to Powell St. Station, transfer to the Muni T Third, and ride one stop to Chinatown-Rose Pak Station. Muni will be free on February 15. 

Discover additional ways to celebrate Lunar New Year on BARTable

Railgoods banner promoting lunar new year t shirts and stickers

Versatile but problem-plagued, the last 1990s-era C2 BART car is gone

The last-ever BART C2 car was decommissioned in August 2021 at Hayward Shop. Note the headlights on the end as well as the flat-shaped front. The C2s could serve as lead car with an operator cab or as a middle car, which ushered in a new era of efficiency in dispatch operations when they arrived in the 1990s

Here's how you can help BART keep our rivers and ocean clean

A bioswale at Warm Springs Station designed to prevent storm water run-off. Trash is a major storm water pollutant in California. Because storm water flows to the bay untreated and unfiltered, trash discarded on land frequently makes its way into streams, creeks, rivers, and eventually the ocean, as rain

BART installing fiber optic cable between 24th St. and Balboa Park

BART crews will install fiber optic cable between the 24th St. Mission and Balboa Park stations Tuesday, April 10 through Saturday, April 21. The work will start at 10:30 p.m. nightly. BART will close one set of tracks between 24th St. Mission and Balboa Park during work hours. During this work, BART trains

BART is making minor schedule changes effective January 15, 2024

BART is making minor changes to the schedule beginning January 15, 2024. 

Some departure times have shifted by a few minutes, and we encourage riders to check the schedule before January 15th to see if their trip is impacted. 

BART’s Trip Planner has been updated for trips beginning January 15, 2024 and PDF timetables are available here and below. 

We also slightly adjusted the BART to Antioch train arrival and departure times to reduce wait times at the transfer platform.

BART shared the new schedule with partner transit agencies in early November to give time for them to make any necessary changes to ensure schedules are aligned and transfers are timed as best as possible. Schedule coordination is part of the Transformation Action Plan that Bay Area transit agencies are working on to improve the transit experience in the region. 

Weekdays

January 15, 2024 Weekday Service for Antioch to SFO (Yellow) Line.pdf

January 15, 2024 Weekday Service for Berryessa_N San Jose to Daly City (Green) Line.pdf

January 15, 2024 Weekday Service for Berryessa_N San Jose to Richmond (Orange) Line.pdf

January 15, 2024 Weekday Service for Dublin_Pleasanton to Daly City (Blue) Line.pdf

January 15, 2024 Weekday Service for Richmond to Millbrae + SFO (Red) Line.pdf

Weekends

January 15, 2024 Weekend Service for Antioch to SFO (Yellow) Line.pdf

January 15, 2024 Weekend Service for Berryessa_N San Jose to Daly City (Green) Line.pdf

January 15, 2024 Weekend Service for Berryessa_N San Jose to Richmond (Orange) Line.pdf

January 15, 2024 Weekend Service for Dublin_Pleasanton to Daly City (Blue) Line.pdf

January 15, 2024 Weekend Service for Richmond to Millbrae + SFO (Red) Line.pdf