Articles tagged with: BART
BART Police Shooting, San Francisco, Traffic & Transit »
UPDATE 2005 PDT: The Powell Street Station has reopened to passengers.
UPDATE 1934 PDT: 16th Street/ Mission and Civic Center stations have fully reopened to passengers.
UPDATE 1914 PDT: BART is beginning to shut down the Powell Street Station after protesters arrive at the transit stop. The Civic Center Station has reopened to allow passengers to off-board trains. Passengers may disembark trains at Powell, but BART is not allowing passengers to enter the station.
UPDATE 1835 PDT: BART has just shut down the 16th Street/ Mission Station after demonstrators moved their protest there.
BART Police Shooting, San Francisco »
(7/4) — 0752 PDT UPDATE — SAN FRANCISCO – A knife-wielding man was shot and killed by a BART police officer at the Civic Center Station Sunday night forcing the complete closure of the transit facility, according to the agency and passengers who said they heard the gunshots.
Passengers told the Beat that they heard gunfire coming from the BART platform level of the station followed by a large police response.
BART Police Shooting »
The Bay Area Rapid Transit District reached a settlement Tuesday morning with the mother of Oscar Grant, the 22-year-old unarmed train passenger shot and killed by a former BART police officer in 2009.
As part of the settlement, the District will pay $1.3 million to Wanda Johnson, Grant’s mother, the district announced in a statement.
Oakland, San Francisco, Traffic & Transit »
A report of smoke delayed BART service through the Transbay Tube, BART passengers said Sunday morning.
Passengers said they received an announcement from train operators at 8:45 a.m about a small fire that was producing smoke in the eastbound bore of the Transbay Tube.
BART Police Shooting, Oakland »
Johannes Mehserle, the former BART police officer jailed for fatally shooting and killing an unarmed train passenger at an Oakland station in 2009, will be released on Monday, the Oakland Tribune reported Wednesday evening.
The newspaper quoted family members of Grant who said officials from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation told them that Mehserle was due for release from the Los Angeles County Men’s Jail in Downtown LA after serving a sentence for an involuntary manslaughter charge.
BART Police Shooting, Oakland »
Several community groups said Wednesday they would hold protests on the day that former Bay Area Rapid Transit Police Officer Johannes Mehserle is released from a Los Angeles County jail.
Mehserle shot and killed unarmed train passenger Oscar Grant on January 1, 2009 in an infamous incident that was caught by cell phone cameras and ultimately led to his conviction of involuntary manslaughter by a Los Angeles jury.
Bay Area Snapshots, The Bay Area »
Powell Street BART Station, San Francisco
From the California Beat photography collection, Bay Area Snapshots is an occasional glimpse at daily life in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Traffic & Transit »
How narrow of a seat would you be willing to sit in?
That’s just one of several questions that BART is asking the public as it takes its “mobile seat lab” to Bay Area residents over the next few months as part of a $3.4 billion project to replace its aging fleet.
Oakland, Traffic & Transit »
BART service at Rockridge Station was temporarily halted after a passenger ended up on the track of an oncoming train and was run over Tuesday night.
The man, described by witnesses as a middle-aged white male, was transported to the hospital after Oakland firefighters freed him from the underside of a Pittsburg/ Bay Point-bound train shortly after 10 p.m.
Traffic & Transit »
After months of delays and millions of dollars in cost overruns, BART’s 44th and newest station will open to passengers this Saturday.
The long awaited grand opening of the West Dublin/ Pleasanton station will give Tri-Valley BART passengers – particularly those commuting from the Highway 680 corridor — a much more convenient option to take the train.
