BART trains have gotten a little longer thanks to recent ridership gains, the transit agency announced this week. All trains on the Yellow Line from Antioch to the San Francisco International Airport grew from eight cars to nine. The Yellow Line is BART’s most popular but BART officials said they also added cars to some trains on the Red, Blue and Green lines, which will now feature four eight-car trains during the morning and evening peak hours in order to increase rider capacity. BART’s ridership in August increased by 10 percent compared with the same month last year and so far this year its busiest days were in September. The highest daily ridership total of the year was on Sept. 10, when 219,918 riders hopped on a train, BART officials said in a news release. BART said the ridership increases coincide with its effort to improve safety, cleanliness and the overall rider experience. Agency officials said the installation of its new fare gates at all 50 stations helped reduce crime throughout the system, that its on-time performance increased to 94 percent recently and it now allows riders to “tap and ride” using credit or debit cards and mobile payment methods like Apple Pay and Google Pay.
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… let’s not forget their commitment with their huge handout they got – after covid they would resume 10 car trains (mot 8 not 9} and add more trains at major commute time … did they? noooooooo …. I say – no raises or bonuses until they make good on their promises
Oh whats that? Bart needs more loans and funding? They need more handouts?
Does that mean bart will make money this year ? ? ? ?
More propaganda from another government agency. Average BART ridership is still half of what it was in 2019.
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Prior to the 2020 pandemic, BART ticket fees and parking fee profits made up 70% of BART’s operating expenses, but today it only makes up 25% of BART’s operating expenses. BART has been and is surviving on emergency federal funding, which ends next year, at which point emergency state funding will kick in and allow BART to survive.
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BART is now bragging and pushing their propaganda that “safety and cleanliness” is bringing riders back to BART, but using that line of thinking would mean that BART contributed to its own decline by not focusing on “safety and cleanliness” in the first place, despite a decade or more of complaints by the public due to a lack of “safety and cleanliness”. BART now has all new train cars, of course that would contribute to cleanliness. Does anyone else remember when BART Boardmembers wanted to pay the homeless $25.00 per hour to ride the rails and acting as “BART Ambassadors to the Public?” It’s stupidity like this that caused BART to decline in the first place.
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The time has come for BART to survive on its own through ticket sales, parking fees, and swag profits from the BART gift shop. Don’t you just want to run out and purchase the blue, green, and red, 2025 “holiday” sweaters.
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BART continues to be nothing but an expensive joke and a drain on taxpayers!!!
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See the 2025 BART “holiday” sweaters here:
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https://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2025/news2025072
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See other BART swag here:
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https://www.railgoods.com/bart/
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Sorry, the first link to the 2025 BART “holiday” sweaters didn’t work. Why is BART wasting time and money on this stuff?
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https://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2025/news20250724