The Lafayette BART station is officially getting new, fare-evader-resistant gates. The Bay Area Telegraph confirmed on a ...

In response to depressed post-pandemic ridership and surveys showing riders overwhelmingly concerned about crime and ...

Crime on BART saw a 17% drop last year, according to Bay Area Rapid Transit. Violent crime in particular fell 11% in 2024 when compared to the previous year, the agency said. BART’s crime drop came as ...

BART logo, via BCN. Board members also heard an update on Jan. 11 on new gates designed to reduce fare evasion that are being tested at the West Oakland BART station ahead of plans to install them in ...

Allen also argued that crime within the BART system is generally correlated with fare evasion, and suggested that hastening BART’s efforts to add new fare gates that are harder to evade at its ...

Some of that is due to the lingering impact of COVID, when people didn’t ride the bus; Muni depends on fares for about 30 percent of its ... levy income taxes to pay for (and only for) bus and BART ...

The MTA plans to spend $4.5 million to fix the issue, which requires replacing thousands of mounting brackets on its entire ...