Recent Streetsblog SF posts about BART

A Week of Bikes on BART: How’s Your Commute Been?

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 20, 2013 | 7 Comments

In the third day of BART’s week-long trial to let bikes aboard during rush hours, the sky doesn’t seem to have fallen, just as it didn’t in the first trial during Fridays last August. BART says it’s already received 850 survey submissions in the first two days, and the results will tell if the operation […]

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BART to Launch Second Trial Week Without Rush-Hour Bike Ban

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 14, 2013 | 14 Comments

BART will implement another trial to allow bikes aboard trains during rush hours, the agency announced today. Unlike the first trial, which tested the policy change during four Fridays in August, the new trial will run during the entire work week from Monday, March 18, through Friday, March 22. The survey results from the August trial […]

Are SFPD and BART Police Starting to Take Bike Theft Seriously?

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 11, 2013 | 3 Comments

BART police had some welcome news for Bay Area cyclists this week: An undercover sting led to the arrest of an alleged thief in possession of ten bikes and more than 100 bike parts. It’s a nice follow-up to the SFPD’s arrest last July of a thief who had 114 stolen bicycles. Stories of successful […]

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Bike Station Coming to Civic Center BART/Muni Station Next Summer

By Aaron Bialick | Nov 5, 2012 | 14 Comments

BART and Muni Metro riders who bike to Civic Center Station would have less reason to worry about getting their wheels stolen if a planned bike station is installed next June, potentially adding a sectioned-off parking area and a fix-it-yourself repair station. The bike station, which is currently being designed, would add 150 to 175 bike […]

This Weekend’s Traffic Frenzy: A Success for Sustainable Transportation?

By Aaron Bialick | Oct 9, 2012 | 17 Comments

This weekend’s massive convergence of events saw possibly one of SF’s largest influxes of travelers ever. And by many accounts, the city’s efforts to get visitors to come by transit, foot, and bike were largely a success. No doubt, transit riders were packed: BART saw 319,484 riders on Saturday, blowing its previous weekend ridership record of 278,586 out […]

BART Survey: Promising Findings for Lifting the Rush-Hour Bike Ban

By Aaron Bialick | Oct 1, 2012 | 21 Comments

BART released results Friday from its survey of riders’ attitudes toward the pilot program that lifted the rush-hour ban on bikes each Friday in August. Although BART and media reports have called the findings “split” and “varied,” the responses in some key areas look promising. The vast majority of the more than 7,500 respondents felt that […]

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