BART. BART (Bay Area Rapid Transport) is similar to a short-distance train system, and the BART lines link San Francisco to other cities and further away places. The network is used by over 400,000 people per day.
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Whereas BART is used to travel across the Bay Area, Muni is used to travel within San Francisco's city limits. The service includes bus lines, trolleybuses, light rail lines and cable cars. That's right, those iconic San Francisco cable cars are part of Muni!
In San Francisco (and some other cities), BART stations are underground, so you'll have to walk down the stairs or take the escalator down into the station. In other cities around the Bay Area, most of the stations are above ground. So you'll have to go into the station at ground level.
Safety is BART's top priority.To help keep passengers and our employees safe, BART has more than 4,000 working cameras throughout our system and we are working very hard to increase both sworn officers and ambassador presence.
Propulsion is provided by four 150-HP, air-cooled, electric traction motors - one per axle. Tractive energy is furnished via the third rail operating at 1000 volts DC. In brake mode, the cars are designed to regenerate energy to the third rail.
Children 4 and under ride free but everyone else must have a Clipper card (a plastic card or in your digital wallet) or a BART paper ticket (no longer sold at stations except SFO) with funds loaded.
BART Ridership Quick FactsDuring peak commute hours, nearly 25,000 people ride through the Transbay Tube into Downtown San Francisco. BART's Pittsburg/Bay Point (yellow) line carries the largest number of people. The busiest stations in the BART system are Embarcadero and Montgomery.
Q: Why doesn't BART run 24/7 or at least later on Friday and Saturday nights? A: The short window of time when BART isn't in operation is used for essential nightly track maintenance to help keep BART safe and reliable.
BART makes it extremely easy to get a ticket from the San Francisco airport to downtown San Francisco. All you need to do is use one of the ticket vending machines to buy a one-way ticket for each passenger, which costs about $10.15 per person for a one-way ticket and $20.30 for a round trip.
Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) connects the San Francisco Peninsula with communities in the East Bay and South Bay. BART service currently extends as far as Millbrae, Richmond, Antioch, Dublin/Pleasanton, and Berryessa/North San José.
A simple tap of a credit card will soon carry you everywhere within the BART or Muni system that a Clipper card currently does. With just the tap of a contactless debit or credit card, riders will be able to breeze through barriers on the two transit systems by the summer of next year.
Clean and safe restrooms are an essential amenity to provide our riders. Nearly all BART stations have public restrooms and we have made the commitment to reopen all the previously closed underground restrooms as budget funds are identified and renovations have been completed.