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Mar 25, 2021 • 5 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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Reading a book on the train is a tale-old tradition many BART riders partake in.

To encourage reading for those even without a book, BART is piloting touchless @ShortEdition_EN Short Story Dispensers, which print out short stories, at 4 BART stations.
The Short Story Dispensers print 1-, 3-, or 5-minute reads on recyclable receipt paper.

The dispensers are located inside paid areas at Montgomery (coming soon), Fruitvale, Richmond and Pleasant Hill — where we tried out and printed out Percy Shelley’s “Ozymandias”!
Unlike us, you can simply print out stories by hovering your finger over the button! No need to touch!

The one-year pilot is being sponsored by BART Communications and its Art Program, as installation begins on National Reading Month. @RIFWEB
A big fan of the dispensers and BART’s pilot: legendary filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola.

Coppola’s North Beach restaurant Café Zoetrope was first in US to install these dispensers.

“Anything that brings people together..which art can do, is clearly desirable,” Coppola told BART.
Once the pilot is running on all four stations, BART staff hopes to expand and create opportunities for Bay Area writers to be featured with their unique short stories and welcome back riders.

Read the full article at bart.gov/news/articles/…

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❓ Did you know ❓

You can ask any station agent for BART’s free bystander intervention cards, which you can use if you’re experiencing or witnessing harassment in stations and trains.

Here’s how they work 👇
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Party like it's 1976, Bay Area.

Starting Saturday, September 3, until Friday, September 9, Powell Station in San Francisco will house 4 arcade consoles for the public to play some of the most legendary retro video games.

The consoles will be open for play from 9am-5pm.
In 1976, then-4-year-old BART partnered with a little known video game company called Atari to house its console at Powell Station to promote Atari's new games and bring revenue to BART through the 25-cent per play cost.
Unlike 1976, the 2022 games are free to play at the concourse.

Come out to Powell Station to play all-time legendary video games like Pac-Man, Asteroids, Space Invaders and Galaga. Also enjoy the warm weekend in San Francisco as well!

Learn more at bart.gov/50years
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Roll With Us! We are looking for the next generation of Train Car Electricians to keep our trains running.

We are looking for people like Michael Thomas, who started out as a train cleaner and worked his way up to fix train cars.

“It’s BART, everybody wants to work at BART"
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Starting September 12, BART will be running a new schedule.

This new schedule is all about the basics: consistency, predictability and transferability.

Chief Comms Officer @AliciaTrost explains it all in the video below. Follow our thread as well to learn the details!
Summary for what you need to know:

✅Improved spacing between Transbay trains in nights/weekends
✅5-line Sunday service, always
✅Standard weekend schedule
✅Common departure times all 7 days
✅Improved connections with regional partners
✅Earlier early morning trains
Much of our improvements are only possible because some of our critical multi-year rebuilding work is wrapping up

Our cable replacement work in the San Francisco Line has been completed 🙌

Transbay Tube retrofit work is expected to finish by November 🤞

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