- A Chronicle columnist, a critic and a photographer spent a day on buses, trains and ferries in an effort to ride every one of the Bay Area’s disjointed public transit systems. How’d it go? And what lessons can be learned? By Heather Knight
- The Bay Area transit map is a hairball of mismatched bus, train and ferry lines operated by 27 agencies that don’t coordinate enough. But the closer we look, the more we see great hope — with the wheels already in motion for a better transit future. By Peter Hartlaub
- King Charles had a whirlwind visit through the Bay Area in 1977, with protests everywhere. The prince rode BART, went to the opera and was handed a bean sprout sandwich from Jerry Brown — surrounded by police the entire time. By Peter Hartlaub
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BART service restored to normal after a day of major delays due to electrical issue in Transbay TubeBART restored service to normal late Friday night after a day in which riders experienced system-wide major delays due to an electrical problem in the Transbay Tube. By Danielle Echeverria
- Leaders of the Bay Area’s 27 transit agencies banded together for more than a year to create a plan to transform the region’s fragmented transit ecosystem and win back riders. A new report shows mixed progress. By Ricardo Cano
- The initial plans seem to envision a BART system that not only includes a second Transbay Tube, but also develops new stations in Downtown Oakland and Alameda. By Ricardo Cano
- The long-awaited 1.7-mile subway extension’s “soft launch” will come this fall, with free rides for a limited time. By Ricardo Cano
- A fire at a PG&E; substation in Monterey County forced the closure of Highway 1 Tuesday morning, Caltrans officials said. By Jessica Flores
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Dreamforce 2022: Traffic, street closures and what to expect during the downtown S.F. megaconferenceThe Dreamforce tech megaconference is likely to bring back pre-pandemic sights of sidewalks swelling with pedestrians and streets snarled with heavy traffic in downtown San Francisco. Here’s what you need to know. By Ricardo Cano
- Two sections of Interstate 80 in the East Bay and a portion of Interstate 280 in the South Bay have among the highest rates of fatal crashes per mile in the state, according to a report from personal finance website MoneyGeek. By Kellie Hwang
- BART has stopped service in the Transbay tube from San Francisco’s Embarcadero station to Oakland’s Lake Merritt station due to an equipment problem on the track that has disabled “multiple” trains, officials said. By Jessica Flores
- Several streets were closed and some Muni routes were rerouted Sunday as revelers prepared to kick off the annual LeatherWalk from San Francisco City Hall to Eagle Plaza amid rainy weather. By Jessica Flores and Sam Whiting
- If you want to see the Bay Area in all its promise and all its problems, take a ride on BART. By Carl Nolte
- Chronicle columnist Heather Knight and pop culture critic Peter Hartlaub are trying to test their thesis that the Bay Area’s transit systems are a disjointed mess. By Heather Knight
- The boy, who has not been identified, is the city’s 49th traffic fatality this year. By Rachel Swan
- Three San Francisco supervisors want the city’s transportation agency’s parking control officers to issue more citations for riding e-scooters on sidewalks. By Ricardo Cano
- Railroad workers and officials said they came to a tentative agreement Thursday morning. By Jessica Flores
- A deceased person was found on the Milbrae Caltrain platform Wednesday morning, the transit agency said. By Annie Vainshtein
- At least two Bay Area Amtrak train routes will be affected by the company’s decision Wednesday to cancel long-distance routes ahead of a possible nationwide strike among freight railroad unions. By Annie Vainshtein
- As Bay Area Rapid Transit celebrates 50 years in the Bay Area, we look back at some of the most unusual moments — including the BART arcade, a service horse, and memorable rides from Richard Nixon, Shohei Ohtani and Marshawn Lynch. By Peter Hartlaub
- A parking spot priced for sale at $90,000 in San Francisco made national headlines last week. But this isn’t a new phenomenon in the city — or even in the same condo building where the spot is listed, real estate agents say. By Jessica Flores
- A person was found dead on the San Bruno BART station platform Sunday afternoon, the transit agency said. The San Bruno BART station was temporarily closed as a result. By Jessica Flores
- A second Transbay Tube is coming. And expansion to South Bay is happening. But as BART celebrates its 50th anniversary, how the transit system changes in the next five decades could determine how we move around the region. By Ricardo Cano
- The U.S. Secretary of Transportation was in San Francisco Thursday to tour the transit project that still doesn’t have a firm date to launch. By Ricardo Cano
- Through its first 50 years, BART has grown in scope and riders, but after the pandemic hit, the regional transit system faces a moment of crisis without a clear answer for the future. By Ricardo Cano
- For all the controversies surrounding the rapid transit system, its impact on the region has been profound — as this East Bay station and its surroundings show. By John King
- The Municipal Transportation Agency overseeing the decades-long transit project has moved the goalposts on an opening date multiple times. By Ricardo Cano
- The regional transit system’s general manager talks about coping with reduced in-office schedules and funding forecasts. By Ricardo Cano
- The shooting occurred Friday afternoon in Pittsburg, police said. The victim was hit in the leg while seated inside a car. By Lauren Hepler
- In a recently resurfaced interview from 1978, the San Francisco supervisor touched on a subject as contentious then as it is now: cars and public transportation. By Annie Vainshtein
- Bay Area bridges see less traffic during this holiday weekend than other times, but the expected heat wave could push more interest in transit. By Ricardo Cano
- A stretch of the state’s main interior artery in North Los Angeles County will be closed for an “unknown” period of time due to the 165-acre-and-counting Route Fire, CalTrans said. By Lauren Hepler
- Drivers were asked Tuesday to find alternate routes around the Rio Vista crossing. By Lauren Hepler
- The incident Tuesday afternoon in San Jose follows years of increasingly frequent shootings on regional freeways. By Lauren Hepler
- A person’s wheelchair fell onto the BART trackway in San Francisco’s Civic Center station, causing a “major delay” Tuesday afternoon, the transit agency said. By Jessica Flores
- Vacaville resident and recent community college graduate Tyler Kincaid, 25, was reported missing after leaving home to start classes at Cal Poly Pomona on Aug. 24. By Lauren Hepler
- After 20 years of drama, financial uncertainty and blown deadlines, BART is preparing to launch the second phase of its Silicon Valley extension. By Rachel Swan
- More Californians may be buying electric cars, but barring a change in state law, they won’t have access to the carpool lane unless they’re carrying passengers. State clean-air decal programs are set to end by 2025. By Michael Cabanatuan
- The victim was injured Friday afternoon at Fruitvale station while riding a BART train bound for Daly City, transit agency officials said. By Jordan Parker and Danielle Echeverria
- After months of tense negotiations, California legislators announced that they have brokered a deal to advance a pair of bills that would allow millions of housing units to be built in sleepy and vacant commercial corridors. By Dustin Gardiner