Starting Monday, BART will be adding more trains to certain lines during peak commute times to keep up with increased ridership, BART officials said.
On select BART lines, commuter trains at 15-minute frequencies will be added during the workweek, and trains at 30-minute frequencies will be added to the weekend schedule.
The changes come in response to increased ridership on BART in order to maintain social distancing aboard trains, and as an effort to provide riders with added flexibility in commute times.
The increase in number of trains marks “the largest weekday service increase since the COVID-19 pandemic hit,” BART officials said.
The new schedule has been entered into BART’s online Trip Planner, and the current as well as new timetables are available at https://www.bart.gov/schedules/pdf.
If you can ride BART, you can definitely vote in person.
AND GO TO CHURCH!
and dine in
and catch viruses….
I don’t ride BART so I’m unclear on how they enforce social distancing on the trains. Do they shut the doors when a certain amount of people are onboard or do they limit the number allowed on the platform at any given time? Just curious.
Really! I will never set foot on BART again until they clean up their act at long last. They are another bunch of money grubbers who cannot get the budget in order. Plus the bums and fair evaders they allow to continue to break the law. I do not wish to have to deal with this literal-crap-anymore. I commuted to the SF for way to long and saw it get worse daily with fares increasing for the “privileged idiots” who pay and work. Way to tired of subsidizing the losers of the state and the politicians in Aunt Nancy’s and Nephew Gavin’s groups.
Tell us how you really feel.
Calm down snowflake!
@Sam Malone
People need to stop voting in the same board members that oppose fixing fair evasion and homeless on trains (Looking at disctrict 7 & 8) Vote for Debora Allen she needs all the help she can get!
BART, over the last 35 years at least, has always seems to be a necessary evil, at best. Recent upticks in crime fare evasion, vagrant seathogs, etc…has made it even less appealing and makes many of us question the value of this product in an age where remote everything is growing.
My take on BART is that it is like a cruise ship without the bar and buffet line.
“everything is growIng” including peoples guts. Thanks to Gavid the Clown!
They have the buffet line, they’ve just removed the sneeze guards 🤧
@chuckie the Troll you hit the nail on the head.
Agree with @Dood but I know a lot of folks who do not vote for these fools but they someone still get into office????
It’s fraud.
Bay Area Rolling Trash (BART) or Bay Area Rapid Failure (BARF) I’m also glad I don’t have to take BARF for the time being and I also wonder how are they making sure people keep their distance when they can never enforce other rules that can keep riders safe. Many of us have not forgotten that riders have been killed and mugged at BARF.
What is the uptick in ridership based on?
In some countries, rapid transit, similar to BART. is NOT charged by distance, but by the trip, no matter how far. Everyone pays one fare as they enter, regardless of how far the destination. ONE FARE. For example; the cost to ride the Metro in Mexico City is approximately 7 pesos, equivalent to about 35 cents. That’s the charge to enter the station; get on the train and go to where ever you want, all one charge, 35 cents, less than the cost to travel from Concord to Pleasant Hill, let alone traveling to San Francisco. And those trains are packed, sometimes running less than 5 minutes apart, in a system much larger than BART. Plain hard, plastic seats, no upholstery, no extras. Running on rubber wheels, therefore very quiet. No deafening screeching as we have with BART. And clean. The first two cars of a 10 car train reserved for women and children, enforced by Metro police.