The EBOT study focuses on better connections between the three cities. The thick red line is a “generalized potential route.” The EBOT study focuses on better connections between the three cities. The thick red line is a “generalized potential route.” Three community workshops are planned to solicit views on enhancing transit in Berkeley, Emeryville and […]
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BART on strike: commuters seek alternative options
BART trains will not be running on July 1 after workers voted to go on strike. Photo: Thomas Hawk BART announced at midnight on Sunday that its employees would be going on strike on Monday following a breakdown in contract negotiations. AC Transit seemed unlikely to join BART workers on a walk-out, as had previously […]
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Berkeley set for $12.7M in downtown transport grants
An early conceptual rendering of the new Downtown Berkeley BART Plaza and the reconfigured two-way Shattuck Avenue. A lightweight roof canopy with photovoltaic cells provides daylight, natural ventilation and solar power to the station and the plaza. Berkeley expects to get $12.7 million in grant funding for changes to BART Plaza, Shattuck Avenue and Hearst […]
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BART seeks owners of recovered bikes, parts after arrest
One of many bikes that were recovered following a recent arrest. Photo: BART BART Police investigators are looking for the owners of more than 10 bicycles and a slew of bike parts after arresting a Richmond man on Sunday in Berkeley. In a statement released Wednesday, police said they arrested 57-year-old Marque Moore after he tried […]
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BART tests allowing bikes on trains at all times
BART hopes a new program will help to eventually double the number of bicyclists riding BART. Photo: Neal Patel/Creative Commons By Hannah Long BART wants to make its system more bike-friendly. With that in mind, the transit company today launched a new Commute Period Bike Pilot Program that allows passengers to brings their bikes on trains […]
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Berkeley’s downtown BART is all roses as part of clean-up
Artist Deborah O’Grady created panels with images of roses and poetry in Berkeley’s downtown BART station. Photo: courtesy Deborah O’Grady Artist Deborah O’Grady created panels with images of roses and poetry in Berkeley’s downtown BART station. Photo: courtesy Deborah O’Grady By Hannah Long A new art piece featuring garden-inspired photography has been installed in the windows […]
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BART expects to resume full Transbay service by 4PM
Commuters wait for buses this morning in Berkeley after BART was shut down in the wake of a fire in Oakland. Photo: Sandy Friedland BART expects to resume full Transbay service by 4:00pm today following a shutdown of services between the East Bay and San Francisco caused by a three-alarm fire at a construction site near West […]
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Woman killed by train at Ashby BART station
Update, 4:15 p.m. According to Jim Allison, deputy chief communications director at BART, the fatality at Ashby BART station was in all likelihood a suicide. “Everything the BART police told me points to a suicide,” he told Berkeleyside. “Witnesses said a woman was on the trackway at the end of the station and she didn’t do […]
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A yarn-bombed seat on the Berkeley-San Francisco BART
Just as BART is considering how to design new seats for its trains — including what covers to use — local yarnbomber Streetcolor has come up with a suggestion. Streetcolor, whose most recent major Berkeley installation was the looped bike rack outside the downtown Berkeley Public Library, said she wanted to knit “something really big and […]
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60,000 commuters to get free BART tickets today
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 […]
