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BART experienced a major delay in downtown Oakland but is now recovering, the transit agency said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BART expects no service disruptions during PG&E's power shut-offs hitting hundreds of thousands of Bay Area residents, but it's likely escalators could be shut down at half a dozen locations and a few bike stations affected, transit agency officials said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In the beginning, no one wanted to claim the BART pedestrian walkway. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A third year of declining ridership is putting a strain on BART's budget plans and raising the specter of more fare hikes. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BART officials announced Friday they identified funding to expand the Antioch BART station parking lot by 800 spaces. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

January 1947: Joint Army-Navy report recommends a transit tube beneath San Francisco Bay to deal with growing traffic congestion [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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It’s 5 p.m. in downtown San Francisco, and most BART riders are going with the flow, squeezing into packed trains while bracing for a long ride home on their feet amid end-of-day armpits and bikes and pungent breath. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BART Director James Fang said it himself: "Obviously in this last negotiation, BART was not at its finest." [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BART has suspended its practice of not taking steps to protect repair crews when a train is heading toward them, a policy that federal investigators say they are looking into as part of their probe into the deaths of two workers killed on the tracks Saturday in Walnut Creek. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BART has suspended its practice of not taking steps to protect repair crews when a train is heading toward them, a policy that federal investigators say they are looking into as part of their probe of the deaths of two workers killed on the tracks Saturday in Walnut Creek. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A federal magistrate says a BART policeman used reasonable force in July 2011 when he fatally shot a man who was about to throw a knife at him at a station in San Francisco. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Alarmingly enough, not much appears to be happening at the BART bargaining table - but away from it transportation officials are in high gear planning how to handle a possible second strike, and those plans could include running limited BART trains driven by managers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BART's general manager pulls down hefty pay, $323,000 a year. So do her deputy managers, with annual takes of about $200,000 apiece. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The person with perhaps the most influence over whether there will be a second BART strike hasn't even been in the bargaining sessions - it's Gov. Jerry Brown. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Gov. Jerry Brown is stepping in where others in public office fear to go: a leadership role in the contentious and economically loaded BART labor standoff. By ordering a seven-day pause before a walkout, he's imposing a needed cease-fire while taking on the issue himself. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

With the clock ticking toward a Sunday night strike for BART, transit system officials made a last-ditch plea Thursday for unions to delay any walkout plans. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Representatives of BART and its two largest unions met again Tuesday in hopes of settling their labor dispute before a contract extension expires on Sunday. But leading up to those discussions, most of the action and energy took place away from the bargaining sessions as the two sides publicly criticized each other. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Bay Area's public transit system stretched but didn't break Monday as BART commuters sought other ways to get around - or stayed home entirely - to deal with the launch of the rail system's first worker strike since 1997. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown relied on bold moves and his Rolodex of political contacts to deliver a prize to harried Bay Area commuters back in 1997 when he pressured BART's management and labor unions to end a crippling strike. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown relied on bold moves and his Rolodex of political contacts to deliver a prize to harried Bay Area commuters back in 1997 when he pressured BART's management and labor unions to end a crippling strike. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

If only the train schedule were so reliable. Frustrated BART riders know the drill: every four years, management and labor bicker and posture until the very last hours before the contract expires. Commuters are often left going to bed not knowing whether they will have a way to work in the morning. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Almost nobody likes higher BART fares or parking charges, but few passengers showed up Thursday to complain about a plan to raise them as the transit system's directors broached the always controversial topic. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

News outlets and websites the world over picked up on the Chronicle story this summer about a BART escalator that was so full of feces that it stopped running. The use of escalators as toilets is indeed a problem, but it's just one of many challenges for BART and other transit agencies that rely on escalators. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A hardware malfunction involving BART's high-voltage power system caused a large electrical arc Sunday that filled a train with smoke and terrified dozens of passengers, officials said Monday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Record ridership and rising sales taxes helped BART finish the last fiscal year with $10.8 million more than expected. Directors voted Thursday to spend that money on late-night bus service along BART routes, replacing carpeted floors in rail cars and trying to contain a worsening workers' compensation problem. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BART's growing crowd of riders could soon catch later trains between Richmond and San Francisco or early morning buses to the East Bay. And, in decades to come, there may be new stations on existing lines, an extension to Ocean Beach, trains running more frequently in urban areas and express service. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BART directors won't decide which foreign firm will build its new fleet of railcars until May 10, but the battle over the contract erupted in testy exchanges at Thursday's board meeting. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

While other transit agencies struggle to balance their budgets, for the second straight year BART expects to bring in enough money to more than cover the cost of running its trains. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BART plans to buy a slick new ride - 260 new rail cars - for about $1 billion in May. The cars will sport a sleek modern look, cleaner seats, digital information displays, even air conditioning that works on hot days. And if transit officials are pleased, and can come up with another $2 billion or so, they'll buy another 515 cars. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Way back in 1957, Bay Area planners were thinking big. Concerned about the booming population and worsening traffic congestion, they proposed a round-the-bay rapid transit network that eventually spawned today's BART. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BART gave commuters more than 65,000 vouchers for free round-trip rides Thursday morning to entice more people to take transit while holiday shopping. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BART revealed Tuesday that copper thieves are bedeviling the system in more ways than stripping cable from its tracks. A project intended to speed trains in Contra Costa County, which was supposed to be done by now, was delayed 10 months after crooks stole hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of metal. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

With the last-minute addition of suggestions from the Federal Communications Commission, the BART board quietly ended the long, noisy, often angry controversy over its August shutoff of subterranean cell phone service. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Neither of the two BART police officers involved in the shooting of a transient at the Civic Center Station in July had received crisis intervention training, a specialized type of instruction that helps law enforcement interact with people who may be suffering from mental problems, the BART police chief said Tuesday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

More than a week after BART shut down wireless service in its subterranean San Francisco stations to halt a protest, the controversy over whether that action violated the constitutional right to free speech continues to rage - and to threaten BART riders' commutes. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Hackers carried out a second cyber-attack against BART on Wednesday, breaching the website of the union that represents the agency's rank-and-file police and releasing a roster of 102 officers and other employees along with their home addresses, e-mail addresses and passwords for the site. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A day after protesters disrupted yet another commute - and amid threats that service could be halted again - BART officials continued to stand behind last week's decision to turn off wireless access in the transit system's underground San Francisco stations to shut down a political protest. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

No one's still standing on the moral high ground in this BART debacle. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The amorphous hacker group known as Anonymous made good Sunday on its threat to strike BART, breaching an agency website and releasing customers' personal information in retaliation for BART's decision to cut cellular phone service to prevent an antipolice protest in San Francisco. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BART's plans to replace its rail cars have drawn much attention from riders and politicians, but Monday's systemwide shutdown - due to the failure of two data devices to work together - highlights that the transit system's modernization needs are far greater. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BART directors have tentatively settled on a former No. 2 at the Federal Transit Administration to take over as the transit agency's general manager - someone they hope can bring in the big bucks from Washington. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BART agreed Tuesday to pay $1.3 million to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by the mother of Oscar Grant, the unarmed train rider who was shot in the back by a transit agency police officer on New Year's Day 2009, attorneys said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BART directors decided Thursday to put off consideration of a late-night service trial until, well, later. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BART directors adopted a $619 million operating budget Thursday that calls for no service reductions or fare increases and expects to bring in $35 million more than it spends. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Passengers on the Bay Area's busiest transit systems and at San Francisco International Airport may notice more police officers as the agencies take precautions against potential terrorist responses to the killing of Osama bin Laden. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Late-night or round-the-clock BART service, an idea that's been briefly tested over the years but never adopted, could get a six-month tryout beginning this fall. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]