BART will be ending all 30-minute frequencies on nights and weekends starting Monday next week.
There will be an increase of daily service on the Yellow Line running from Antioch to San Francisco, with trains arriving approximately every 10 minutes before 9:00 p.m. Monday through Friday.
BART’s Blue line to and from Dublin will have 20-minute frequencies at all hours, increasing nights and weekends with an added five minutes between trains during weekday daytime hours.
Riders coming from the Richmond and Berryessa/North San Jose direction will have frequencies of approximately 10 minutes on weekdays during daytime hours. There will be an increase in options for transfers to take the Orange line running between Richmond and Berryessa, if necessary.
San Francisco International Airport will see up to nine trains per hour on nights and weekends, with trains arriving and departing approximately every 20 minutes.
All Red line trains will now stop at SFO before heading to Millbrae with more trains on nights and weekends to Oakland International Airport.
Sounds like a good idea, especially during commute times. It’s always packed with standing room only between 7:00 a.m. and 9:30 a.m.. Doesn’t help that it always seems to have these bums sleeping across two or three seats while the rest of us hard workers stand the whole trip!
The new timetable won’t help, there will be more trains, but they will be shorter. The end result being the same number of cars per hour.
Has ridership increased enough to justify the new train schedules? Just weeks ago we were told that BART didn’t have enough money to operate without additional bailouts from the public.
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Of course not! They’ll be adding trains because more BART employees are back from vacation and their union labor agreement mandates no layoffs regardless of low ridership level.
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Then perhaps the time has come for BART to go bankrupt so those union contracts can be renegotiated or voided.
I’m pretty sure that was the regular schedule when BART first started.
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That means each train will have fewer riders.
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and at the same time a BART spokesperson says trains will have less cars to reduce crime. The thinking if you’re not on a sparsely populated car you’re less likely to be a victim on a train…
BART needs to get some of those Japanese guys that work on the Tokyo subway and jam people onto the trains with a big shoe horn and a spray can of PAM.
I ride BART daily from Antioch-Berkeley-Antioch…for the a.m. commute the trains are full, as well as for the p.m. commute…especially with schools back in session. So, dunno what they’re referring to about low ridership.