For almost-three-year-old Kevin Franklin, riding BART for the first time was something of a wonder. The trains were big, shiny, and fast. The stations, grandiose and cathedral-like. And the people ...
BART’s classic old train cars — maybe “classic” should be in quotes — have a storied history. When they began service in the previous century, a soon-to-be-disgraced president of the United States was ...
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Construction of the Bay Area Rapid Transit system was an ambitious goal to create a next-generation network 68 years after New York's subway system launched. While Sept. 11, ...
San Francisco, California - BART, the Bay Area Rapid Transit District, is celebrating its 50th anniversary as it struggles to regain the ridership ripped away from it by the pandemic. Its legacy is a ...
During the month of September, all fares on BART will be discounted by 50%. The promotion is to celebrate the 50th anniversary of BART, which came into service on Sept. 11, 1972. The reduced ticket ...
From the Berkeley station brothel that got busted to the time a bunch of clowns crowded onto a train car to the bar car that never was, there’s a lot to BART’s history that’s been lost to the annals ...