Let’s take BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) into San Francisco

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The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) is a heavy-rail public transit system that connects the San Francisco Peninsula with communities in the East Bay and South Bay. BART service currently extends as far as Millbrae, Richmond, Antioch, Dublin/Pleasanton, and Berryessa/North San José. BART operates in five counties (San Francisco, San Mateo, Alameda, Contra Costa, and Santa Clara) with 131 miles of track and 50 stations.

From the opening of service in 1972 to the present day, BART has enhanced the quality of life in the Bay Area by providing rapid and reliable transportation. Today, the BART system is essential to the health of our region’s economy—connecting workers and businesses, and relieving regional traffic congestion. At the same time, BART is the backbone of the region’s public transit system, accommodating people of all income levels as well as youth, seniors, and people with disabilities. By reducing the need to drive, BART reduces emissions and air pollution, supporting a healthier environment.

BART ridership has been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and remote work trends in the Bay Area. Prior to the pandemic, BART served 405,000 trips on an average weekday. Track the latest ridership trends here.

BART provides fast, reliable transportation to downtown offices, shopping centers, tourist attractions, entertainment venues, universities and other destinations for Bay Area residents and visitors alike.

BART is a special purpose transit district that was formed in 1957 and opened for service in 1972.
BART's vision is to support a sustainable and prosperous Bay Area by connecting communities with seamless mobility.
BART's mission is to provide safe, reliable, clean, quality transit service for riders.
BART's Customer Commitment is:
We are here to move the Bay Area.
Our commitment is to always put you first.
Your time, safety, and needs.
Every rider, every interaction, every day.
We're seeking high-caliber team players who share our values and our drive to be the best transit agency in the world.
Procurement
Find out about BART's procurement activity and the goods and services we need to provide safe, reliable service.
Projects
We're working on numerous retrofit and expansion projects to serve our growing region.

Property Development
BART is working to promote high quality transit-oriented development on and near BART-owned properties.

BART Police: The mission of the BART Police Department is to ensure a safe environment within our transit system, reduce crime through a highly visible police presence, and proactive enforcement of the law, and to promote public confidence by working in partnership with our stakeholders and the communities we serve
Government and Community Relations: Local, state and federal elected officials, and their staff, are encouraged to contact us about any BART-related issue.
Board Advisory Committees: Board Advisory Committees meet regularly to discuss and improve BART for riders and the general public. Members of the public can join the Board Advisory Committees.
The following is a comprehensive narrative of the history of BART. You may also be interested in the book: BART the Dramatic History of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System written by retired BART spokesman Michael C. Healy and published by Heyday Books.
The BART story began in 1946. It began not by governmental fiat, but as a concept gradually evolving at informal gatherings of business and civic leaders on both sides of the San Francisco Bay. Facing a heavy post-war migration to the area and its consequent automobile boom, these people discussed ways of easing the mounting congestion that was clogging the bridges spanning the Bay. In 1947, a joint Army-Navy review Board concluded that another connecting link between San Francisco and Oakland would be needed in the years ahead to prevent intolerable congestion on the Bay Bridge. The link? An underwater tube devoted exclusively to high-speed electric trains.
Since 1911, visionaries had periodically brought up this Jules Verne concept. But now, pressure for a traffic solution increased with the population. In 1951, the State Legislature created the 26-member San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit Commission, comprised of representatives from each of the nine counties which touch the Bay. The Commission's charge was to study the Bay Area's long range transportation needs in the context of environmental problems and then recommend the best solution.
The Commission advised, in its final report in 1957, that any transportation plan must be coordinated with the area's total plan for future development. Since no development plan existed, the Commission prepared one itself. The result of their thoroughness is a master plan which did much to bring about coordinated planning in the Bay Area, and which was adopted a decade later by the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG).
The Commission's least-cost solution to traffic tie-ups was to recommend for