Is BART getting safer?

We've made many improvements. From easy app-based payment to new escalators at our busy downtown stations, we're proud of the improvements we are making every day. Most importantly, we've made a commitment to a cleaner, safer ride that guarantees BART remains the safest way to travel.”



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Once celebrated for its financial independence, BART is now facing a financial crisis. In large part because of just that, its dependence on riders.

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Seats are scrubbed with hot water and disinfectant soap during a thorough clean. BART recently increased the frequency of thorough cleans from every 900 hours of train car service to every 450 hours, meaning we've doubled the number of times the cars in our system undergo a deep clean.

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A: The level of BART service is determined by how much our budget can afford. We recoginze running more frequent service on nights and weekends would increase ridership. But we need more funding to pay the up front costs of running it.

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In the promotional video, the AI tool is asked “What new discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope [JWST] can I tell my 9 year old about?” In its response, Bard answers that JWST took the “very first pictures” of an exoplanet outside our solar system.

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The Transbay Tube is an underwater rail tunnel that carries Bay Area Rapid Transit's four transbay lines under San Francisco Bay between the cities of San Francisco and Oakland in California. The tube is 3.6 miles (5.8 km) long, and attaches to twin bored tunnels.

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Taking BART, he noted, is also faster than driving the highly trafficked highways into San Francisco. “Being on BART makes me feel relieved. It's way more stressful driving,” he said. “It's tough commuting this far, but public transit makes it more manageable.”

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The COVID-19 pandemic changed how Bay Area residents live, work, and travel. It hit BART and all other public transit systems hard, decimating transit ridership and, along with it, the transit fare revenue we rely on to keep trains running. We are in an unprecedented moment, with the survival of BART at risk.

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Transit Saves You Money The average BART fare is approximately $3.96. For the same price as one year of car ownership, you could take nearly 3,000 average trips on BART – or about seven trips a day. Use our Fare Calculator to determine the exact cost of your trip.

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