BART is turning 50-years-old and is inviting the public to help celebrate.
Riders are encouraged to save the date for a public celebration at Lake Merritt Station on Saturday, September 10, 2022.
The 50th Birthday Party and Family Fun Festival is free to the public and will be from 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
The event will include food trucks, music, games, prizes, and the opening of a time capsule.
BART is also thanking its riders and encouraging more people to return to the system by offering a 50% discount for the entire month of September. Riders using Clipper will get half off all published BART fares in September. That includes 50% off already discounted fares for youth, senior, Regional Transportation Connection, Clipper Start, and Gator Pass riders.
Plans to celebrate BART’s 50th year of serving the Bay Area are scheduled to be discussed at Thursday’s BART Board meeting.
You can learn more about BART’s anniversary at bart.gov/50years.
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… and how much will this cost?
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BART should stick to providing transit services… not hosting parties.
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There’s absolutely nothing wrong with BART celebrating how many years they have served the Bay Area. If you don’t like it, don’t go!
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Im not going.
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My point is their mission is to provide transit services. PERIOD.
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I pay multiple property tax bills which contain BART bonds and assessments…. You’re darn right I have an opinion about BART budgets and expenditures.
Instead use the money to put in fare gates that keep freeloaders off the trains. Beef up security as well. Over the last 50 years bart has litterally been run and managed into the toilet. Yea, that’s why the trains smell.
@Robert Taylor
You’re absolutely right…..there is nothing wrong with BART celebrating 50 years of service. There is, however, something very wrong if they’re throwing a party using funds that do not belong to them.
Oh, look! Another government agency wasting taxpayer money on garbage!
Any small amount of funds to put this on doesn’t come from taxpayer money. Besides, all they’re doing is setting up an area for food trucks and a few booths and maybe some live music. Big deal. Do you ride BART? There’s absolutely nothing wrong with throwing a little celebration event.
Then BART looked the utopian furture. Now it looks like the dystopian movie “Escape from New York.”
Yeah, they should have stuck with light rail and kept the existing lines instead of turning them into hiking trails.
And I thought BART was running a deficit. No wonder this poorly managed agency can’t function properly. The Board and Management are fully qualified to be the next financially ignorant politicians…
No thanks, I’ll stay home or go to a movie. Don’t want to spoil what I remember about my 1st BART ride.
@Dorothy
I can remember my first BART ride also. It was 1980, I had a job interview in S.F. and decided to take BART for the first time. I gave myself plenty of time to figure everything out and still got to the city an hour early. I thought BART was just the greatest thing……clean, affordable, and most of all, SAFE.
Sad and pathetic what BART’s become.
What a great party. Instead of porta potties, they will provide a couple of BART cars for people to use since they already do now.
I really like to hear from someone that still uses BART weekly for their opinion.
Bart is filthy and dangerous.
They should put this $$$$$$ toward repair, restoration, security, and in opening the bathrooms once again at the SF stations. People paying way too much cash for a filthy train are entitled to take a dump for their money.
@Robert Taylor……
ALL Bart funds come from TAXPAYERS!!!
Where do you think it comes from?? Thin air??
Sheesh!