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BART is not only carrying record numbers of riders, it’s cleaning up its act. The latest Quarterly Performance Report (QPR) presented to the Board today included the highest rating ever for cleanliness inside trains. In fact, the QPR for the first quarter of the 2013 fiscal year (July – September 2012) showed

Members of both the BART Police Department Review Committee and the subcommittee formed to focus on designing a draft model for citizen oversight of the BART Police Department met with the public on Friday, May 15. The evening meeting at the Metropolitan Transportation Commission auditorium focused on

As part of our Traction Power System Upgrade Project, construction is currently underway to install electrical conduit and cables along BART’s elevated structures in West Oakland and at the West Oakland Station. The weekend of February 22-23, we will need to close parking spaces in the West Oakland Station

BART’s inflation-based fare increase program is set to slightly raise the price of trips by 3.4% starting on January 1, 2016 in order to help pay for high-priority improvement projects riders will benefit from. Since 2003, BART has only increased fares using a formula set below the inflation rate – a method

BART riders are noticing evocative new art posters popping up throughout the stations. The illustrations are the latest in BART’s transit poster program. This series of three images, entitled “The Wanderer,” is the work of artist Monico Chavez. We caught up with Monico at a restaurant not too far from his

As part of our systemwide Earthquake Safety Program, we are starting construction to strengthen the elevated structures in the Bay Fair Station parking lot to allow them to better withstand future earthquakes. This work will require the temporary closure of some daily fee parking spaces and the relocation of

As part of our systemwide Earthquake Safety Program, construction crews are continuing to strengthen the elevated structures outside the San Leandro Station to better withstand future earthquakes. The current area of work is nearing completion and will be returning 38 daily fee parking spaces to service. The

As part of our systemwide Earthquake Safety Program, construction crews are continuing to strengthen the elevated structures outside the Hayward Station to better withstand future earthquakes.Beginning in early August 2013 work areas will be fenced in and you may see large equipment accessing the site such as

Secure bicycle parking will more than triple at Civic Center Station thanks to a move by the BART Board of Directors Thursday night. The Board okayed a plan to use more than a half million dollars in grants to increase the number of bicycle spaces from 63 to 216. 89 of the spaces will be in an area accessible

Starting January 1, 2014, BART riders will pay on average an extra 19 cents in fares to help pay for new train cars and other top priority projects that will ensure reliable, safe and clean train service for the Bay Area for years to come. In February 2013, the Board of Directors voted to continue BART’s