Category: BART

Addressing the problem of SOMETHING IS THE MATTER WITH BART OMG, the system plans to cease transbay service later this summer for some long-overdue track work. SFGate has the story:

BART is preparing to halt all train service between San Francisco and the East Bay over the upcoming three-day Labor Day weekend — and the first weekend of August as well — for what is being billed as “critical track maintenance” near the entrance to the system’s Transbay Tube.

“We plan to have a substantial ‘bus bridge’ available for BART passengers traveling between Oakland and San Francisco” during the anticipated five days of service disruptions, BART Assistant General Manager Kerry Hamill said in a memo sent to Bay Area transportation agencies.

Well then. It’s not like we really wanted to go to Oakland or anything*.

Read the full story at SFGate.

JK. Oakland is rad. Hella, even.

Photo by Michael Dunn

Here’s the transit news we’ve collected since our last news roundup. If you have news tips, email them our way, por favor.

• BART announces 3.4 percent planned 2016 fare increase (SFGate)
• Will Muni’s Largest Service Increase in Decades Have Staying Power? (Streetsblog SF)
• New Art on Muni poster series to begin May 1 (Curbed SF)
• Overnight Fire Damages Muni Shelter At Haight and Fillmore (Hoodline)
• News crew catches teen girls’ attack on Muni rider who had shushed them (SFGate)
• Muni given go-ahead for double berthing at downtown stations (SF Examiner)