In a move to get more people on BART during the holiday season, BART will be handing out 120,000 free tickets this morning at six stations. From 6 am to 9 am patrons at the Downtown Berkeley station, Oakland 12th Street, Embarcadero, Montgomery, Powell and Civic Center stations can grab tickets. BART will give away […]
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Downtown Berkeley in 1962
I was perusing the Internet when I came across this 1962 photo montage of a Bart train traveling under Shattuck Avenue. This drawing was probably done for the November 1962 election when voters in Alameda, San Francisco and Contra Costa Counties were asked to approve the sale of $792 million in bonds to build a […]
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BART plaza to become an inviting spot
The downtown Berkeley BART plaza is kind of a dead man’s zone. More than 18,000 people pass through it daily, yet only a handful stop to savor its attractions. On most days, just a few people sit on the benches scattered throughout the plaza. Some of them are a little down and out and loiter […]
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New bill creates citizen oversight of BART police
A bill signed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger late last night will give citizens a role in directing policy and reviewing practice in the BART police force for the first time. The BART Accountability Act comes as a direct response to the killing of Oscar Grant by then BART police officer Johannes Mehserle on January 1, 2009 at […]
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New bike station opened today in downtown Berkeley
Today saw the opening of a smart new Bike Station at 2208 Shattuck Avenue, the result of a partnership between the city and BART, as well as community biking organizations. The station offers convenient, free valet-parking space for cyclists commuting via the Downtown Berkeley BART, as well as repair facilities, a retail store and amenities […]
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Bike patrols for BART
Berkeleyites are used to the site sight of our police on bicycles, but today at 10 a.m. at the North Berkeley BART station, the BART Police are launching their own bike patrol. The bike patrols will start this summer. BART still needs to purchase the bikes and work with the El Cerrito Police Department to put […]
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East Bay commute headache
Commuters traveling from the East Bay to San Francisco got a shock this morning when the BART train they were traveling on split in two. A nine-car train bound from Pittsburg to the San Francisco International Airport was about to pull into the Embarcadero station around 6:23 am when one section become uncoupled from another. […]
