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Tentative Deal Reached Between BART and ATU: No Strike Monday!

By Bryan Goebel | Aug 16, 2009 | No Comments

BART management and the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555 have reached a tentative deal, averting a strike that was scheduled to start at midnight tonight. The announcement came from BART Board Director James Fang and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, according to KCBS radio, and followed a round of weekend negotiations that resumed Saturday afternoon. […]

BART, Union to Resume Talks

By Bryan Goebel | Aug 15, 2009 | No Comments

BART management and the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555 plan to resume talks this afternoon in an effort to avert a Monday strike. "We have had communications with management and we’re meeting back at the table at 1 o’clock this afternoon to do everything we can to…get a contract that’s fair to our members and […]

Train Strike!

By Chris Carlsson | Aug 14, 2009 | 9 Comments

View of Market Street during 1907 streetcar strike (from San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library) On Sunday BART workers might strike, throwing Bay Area transportation into chaos. It’s a tiny echo of the kind of warfare that used to erupt regularly a century ago on the streetcar lines of San Francisco. 1,500 streetcar men […]

Heavy Traffic Expected As Riders Scramble for BART Alternatives

By Matthew Roth | Aug 14, 2009 | 5 Comments

Flickr photo: schlick33 With BART’s operators’ union declaring an imminent strike that will shut down the entire system starting this Monday, Bay Area commuters are scrambling to find other options for getting to work, particularly from the East Bay, where BART and the Bay Bridge are the two primary transportation links across the water. Despite […]

BART Commuters Weigh Their Options as Strike Looms

By Michael Rhodes | Aug 13, 2009 | 13 Comments

BART riders began grappling with planning alternatives to their daily commutes today. Photo: Michael Rhodes BART riders braced themselves today as word got out that train service will shut down Monday due to a strike. At Montgomery Station in San Francisco, riders expressed mixed feelings about the politics of the strike, but they were unanimous […]

BART Strike Likely To Overwhelm Other Transit Agencies

By Michael Rhodes | Aug 13, 2009 | 25 Comments

Click to enlarge: A map of Muni lines that displaced BART commuters can consider taking during a strike. Photo courtesy SFMTA. A BART strike will leave hundreds of thousands of riders in search of an alternate commute on Monday. Since most of the region’s largest transit agencies are already operating near capacity during peak hours, […]

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