Recent Streetsblog SF posts about BART

Opening Date Set for BART Warm Springs Extension

By Roger Rudick | Mar 10, 2017 | 13 Comments

Life for commuters heading north from Warm Springs and South Fremont is about to get a little easier. After months of delay and glitches, it looks as if BART finally has its extension ready to roll. It announced the opening date, March 25. From BART’s official announcement: BART’s Warm Springs Extension will open for service […]

Transit Agencies Need to Get Out of the Fare Collection Business

By Roger Rudick | Mar 9, 2017 | 22 Comments

From nine to nearly noon today, at BART headquarters in Oakland, the agency’s Board of Directors and staff had an impassioned discussion about raising fares and parking fees to close projected budget deficits. “Across the country, ridership is down, from four to five percent for rail, and ten percent for buses,” explained Grace Crunican, BART’s General […]

The Copenhagen Metro (seen here in Vanløse station) is one of many systems with no drivers on board the train. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

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Let’s Talk Seriously About Driverless Trains

By Roger Rudick | Mar 6, 2017 | 21 Comments

Uber, Waymo and others are in the process of developing driverless car technology, while transit systems in the Bay Area continue to rely on one operator in the front of every single train.

Walk SF's Nicole Ferrara gave a presentation on Vision Zero, as part of a forum on safety in transportation. Photo: Streetsblog/Rudick

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SPUR Talk: Safer Walking, Biking and Taking Transit

By Roger Rudick | Feb 15, 2017 | 6 Comments

Want people to walk, bike and use transit? Then it's got to feel safe.

Clipper Update and the Potential to Rationalize Fares

By Roger Rudick | Feb 14, 2017 | 44 Comments

Yesterday evening, at the San Francisco Transit Rider’s new digs on Folsom Street in downtown, Sara Barz of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) and Arielle Fleisher, with the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR), gave presentations about the move to replace the Clipper fare-collection system with a new generation of technology […]

Thursday's BART Board meeting was packed with members of local labor unions. Image: Melanie Curry/Streetsblog

BART Dublin Garage Could Violate Station Access Policy

By Melanie Curry | Feb 10, 2017 | 4 Comments

BART's recently adopted Station Access Policy states that even at “auto-dependent” stations like Dublin, parking should only be considered only after investments are made in walking, biking, and transit infrastructure.

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