It is hard to believe this is it.

Today is the final A’s home game in Oakland. We are running 8 car trains on several lines and will have 6 event trains for after the game.

BART and the Athletics have been intertwined since 1972.

Let's take a stroll down memory lane 🧵⬇️ BART was just a couple months old in 1972 when Joe Rudi, Sal Bando, Catfish Hunter, Vida Blue, and Rollie Fingers led the A’s to their first World Series victory in Oakland.

The day many of our riders who use Civic Center Station have been waiting for has arrived.

Work is now underway to install the first full array of Next Generation Fare Gates at Civic Center. Today’s work is focused on removing the old gates near the Seventh Street entrance to Civic Center. It’s expected work to install the new array will take several weeks. Then we will move on to replace the next two sets of gates at Civic Center.

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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 👇 If someone is harassing you in a way that makes you feel unsafe, hand a person close to you the 🔹 blue “You Got Me?” card to ask for their help. The card offers options for ways they might help you.

Roll With Us! BART is currently hiring Train Car Mechanics to ensure our trains are safe and reliable.

If you like working with hands and solving problems, you may be working alongside Brandon Nicolas, a Train Car Mechanic who joined BART from the aviation industry. We are also looking for Train Car Electricians, who troubleshoot the computers side of a BART train car.

A Train Car Mechanic sounds like a regular car mechanic -- but instead working with a train car which weighs more than three adult elephants.

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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.

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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" Train Car Electrician work on the "brains" of the train car. Issues with HVAC, propulsion or lights, Mike jumps into take a look under the hood.

Everywhere Mike goes he carries his handy multimeter, which measures voltage, current, and resistance, so he can diagnose and fix.

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

For a few weeks in 2005, a handful of BART stations transformed into movie sets for the production of the hit film “The Pursuit of Happyness,” starring Will Smith. Story: bart.gov/news/articles/… “The Pursuit of Happyness” follows Chris Gardner (@CEOofHappYness ) as he struggles to make ends meet in San Francisco in the 1980s. (Pictured: Gardner and BART engineer Otto Gonzales)

Heads up Orange/Green Line riders between South Hayward and Berryessa: This weekend August 13-14, free @rideact buses will replace trains between South Hayward-Union City for major trackway replacement work. On both Saturday and Sunday, the Green Line will run between Daly City and South Hayward. Green Line service between Union City and Berryessa will be suspended; only Orange Line will run between Union City and Berryessa. Free bus shuttle will connect South Hayward-Union City.

Bring BART home with an authentic BART System Map.

Maps that once hung in station kiosks are now for sale on our merch store.

These are massive 47x47 posters that came down when we opened Milpitas and Berryessa. They include the purple line!

railgoods.com/system-map.html We also have a Vintage Ticket Tee featuring the original BART ticket, complete with black magnetic stripe and even the phrase, “This Side Up.” 

Also available in youth sizes!

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This weekend, August 13-14, BART has two rebuilding projects happening in the system. If you will be riding through the work areas please allow extra time for your plans. This thread is a brief summary of what's happening. All day Saturday and Sunday, August 13-14, BART will close the track between South Hayward and Union City. Free @rideact buses will connect the stations. This weekend, only Orange Line trains will run between Union City and Berryessa stations.

Civic Center is closed. Take Muni to avoid Civic Center.

https://twitter.com/sfbartalert/status/1492001214220939279

9:20pm update: BART Police has taken into custody a suspect following a shooting that occurred at the Civic Center station. A victim has been transported to the hospital. The station is closed. Riders can use Muni for free. Trains are not yet allowed to run through the station.

As we see ridership slowly return, we presented to the Board new initiatives underway at BART to better improve access, communications, wayfinding and equipment.

That is timed with our new schedule change taking effect next week, with improved service.

https://twitter.com/SFBART/status/1491582872959946754?s=20&t=HyDnFJX-SO2fi1-9j9oXGg

We are working to improved communications in stations.

-We are producing more maps with information, i.e. how to contact BART Police or other services, in station display cases

-New digital monitors at downtown SF stations to show station specific information/animations

Happy Thursday morning: BART is hosting a two-day Board Workshop today and tomorrow.

You can watch along at bart.gov/about/bod/mult… or at

BART General Manager Bob Powers gave his introductory remarks, which we abridged and threaded below: Board Workshop has long been an opportunity to have thoughtful and strategic dialogue about the direction of the District. Not just service we provide & role we play in the region but also how we operate as an agency and our efforts to deliver world class transit for the Bay Area

Hey Bay Area! Next Monday, February 14, BART's new schedule change takes effect. We are welcoming back riders with more trains.

Big news: Sunday service is back until midnight. BART closes on midnight all 7 days.

Also BART will run 5-line Sunday service for the first time ever! Weekdays and Saturdays see minimal changes. But there are added adjustments to benefit Blue Line riders and Yellow Line riders specifically

We are planning ahead for Peninsula riders too, as we've updated our transfer timetables at Millbrae with @Caltrain

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Valentine's Day is soon, and we have a BART love story to share!

Two strangers meet on an empty Embarcadero Station platform. They soon become known as "BART guy" and "BART girl" to their friends. Now they are a married couple of 17 years.

Full story: bart.gov/news/articles/… Thanksgiving Day morning, 2001. Embarcadero Station platform.

Gene and Stefani are the only two people waiting for a train. Both are heading to see their families. They make small talk. Gene's train pulls up, and he boards the train.

Before the doors close, Gene stepped off.

So the word is out: the Powell St Station restroom is open. What does it look like?

-two 🚽, one sink outside, water fountains
-All-gender restrooms
-bright LED lights (as everywhere in Powell) light the restrooms
-no main door but with stalls, a la restrooms at @flySFO -The sink is touchless and in concourse area, meaning riders who just want to wash hands can use without going inside
-Two water fountains and water bottle filling station in concourse area

BART service has halted in the SFO/Millbrae directions between 24th St Mission and Daly City stations. We understand a train hit a fallen tree on the tracks, causing equipment damage. Crews are at scene to resolve matter. Please take @sfmta_muni from 24th Mission southbound

https://twitter.com/sfbartalert/status/1488962693583314944

.@sfmta_muni is providing mutual aid for riders heading south of 24th St Mission toward Daly City station with the 14/14R bus.

It's always sad to see an old friend go, but sometimes, change is for the better.

BART has officially decommissioned (aka retired) all its C2 legacy train cars in August. Versatile but problematic, the C2s were given some curt goodbyes by BART maintenance staff at Hayward Yard. C2 train cars are the first ever legacy fleet car types retired in full by BART.

Despite being a 90s kid, C2s are the first out for a reason: C2s were the most problematic train cars with technical glitches leading to delays, cancelled trains or swelteringly hot cars.

Today the first of 41 rebuilt escalators coming to all four Market Street stations in San Francisco opened for service.

Mark Dana manages the project team to replace these escalators. He spoke to us in our newest episode for our podcast, "Hidden Tracks". bart.gov/news/articles/… Dana is overseeing the replacement of escalators at Embarcadero, Montgomery, Powell and Civic Center -- all in service for at least 40 years -- and replacing them with modern ones which can handle crowd loads, conserve energy when idle and be more visible with LED skirt lights.

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”!