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Shortly afterward, Trost said, a rail defect was found at an interlocking — a switch point where trains can cross over from one set of tracks to another — outside West Oakland station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crews repaired that problem. Then, yet another train suffered an equipment issue, this time while traveling through the Transbay Tube.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Via social media, BART reported major delays for more than four hours into early Sunday evening and was forced to halt direct trains between Berryessa and San Francisco and limit service between Dublin/Pleasanton and the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SFBARTalert/status/1805045211275673729\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest disruptions come at an especially sensitive time for BART, which is joining with other transit operators in a campaign to craft a 2026 tax measure that would help the agencies head off a fiscal catastrophe resulting from fare revenue lost in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facing annual deficits of more than $350 million a year starting in July 2026, BART has said it would consider cutting some lines, reducing service hours and closing some stations if it doesn’t identify new sources of revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email last week to a new Metropolitan Transportation Commission committee charged with crafting the tax proposal, BART General Manager Bob Powers highlighted the ambitious program of service improvements the agency has undertaken in response to long-standing rider complaints about service reliability, crime, cleanliness, fare evasion and the growing presence of people on the system suffering various modes of crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those improvements are partly driven by demands from state lawmakers, who agreed to approve emergency operating funds for BART and other agencies on the condition they address concerns about their service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART’s efforts have included increasing police presence, hiring crisis intervention specialists, rolling out new fare gates, a focused effort to keep trains and stations clean, a customer-friendly night and weekend schedule and operating all of its service with its new generation of train cars. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>View the full episode transcript.\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On Monday, BART rolled out a new schedule and changes to its system. They’re calling it a “reimagined” service plan. Combine that with increased police and non-uniformed personnel, and it’s clear that BART is trying to make changes that woo riders back onto its trains. 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That plus the delays and all the other problems that regular riders are probably used to seeing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Montage of listener voicemails: \u003c/strong>They often go home for Sunday dinner with the family and it’s often really delayed and it just feels inconsistent. It’s also already way too expensive. I used to actually be a regular BART right here. I do agree with a lot of the sentiment regarding the public that it’s just a little unfair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>But this week, BART made some big changes to its system and the agency is hoping that it’s enough to bring people back and riders are hoping so, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Montage of listener voicemails: \u003c/strong>I definitely have noticed the new schedule this week and it’s been a welcome change. Overall, I’d really continue to root for BART and hope that they can figure out their financing. I really hope to see BART fully recover because it is a great service, but I want it to be better and I love it because I know that it’s not the best we deserve, but I want it to be better and it’s the best we have right now. Ugh, I have mixed feelings, I love BART and I hate BART.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Today we’re talking with KQED, Dan Brakey, about all the changes BART just made to its system and the tall order. It’s got to win your heart back. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Dan Brekke is a transportation editor for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke: \u003c/strong>One of the changes would be that no one would ever have more than a 20 minute wait. That would happen by actually reducing some of the weekdays service on the lesser traveled lines like the line between Richmond and Barry s, for instance, there would be an increase in service on the busiest line, which is the line between Pittsburgh, Bay Point and SFO, San Francisco International Airport. Now the trade off on that line is those trains are running every 10 minutes and those other lines like from Richmond to Barry s, they’re only running every 20 minutes. And if they sort of evened everything out, you could have trains all day, every day, every 20 minutes. It’s a big change. And there are some things that people are not totally in love with yet, but it seems to be working pretty well so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>A part of that change, too, is that they’re actually way less of the old legacy BART trains and more of the sort of new ones, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke: \u003c/strong>Yes, that’s exactly right. BART made a sort of big production out of what it called the final trip by a legacy fleet train. These are cars that go back to the very beginning of BART. BART is 51 years old this month, and they’re looking a little beat right now. And so as part of this change service, BART is retiring. Those from regular service, you still may see them. What the service is supposed to feature each and every day for all service hours is it’s the brand new train. You know, these new cars represent a big advance in the customer experience in a lot of ways. But there are some things that people don’t like so much. The seating configuration is different. Some people find the seats too hard and stuff like that. But anyway, you have brand new cars, better ventilation and better signage and announcements and all of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And then the trains are also going to be shorter, like actually fewer cars, right? What’s that about?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke: \u003c/strong>At the beginning of the pandemic, BART began running almost exclusively ten car trains. And that was because there was this concern about social distancing. There were many fewer people riding, but to make them feel comfortable, the trains were made longer than they typically had been earlier so that people could space themselves out on the cars. But BART is looking at a number of things that make it feel like it needed to change how it was managing those train lengths. So what they’ve done starting this week is to just run shorter trains on most lines like the one from Richmond to Barry S in the East Bay or from Dublin, Pleasanton to Daly City, for instance. They’re cutting the train lengths from the typical ten cars before to six cars. And then on that busy Pittsburgh Bay point to SFO line they’re cutting the train lengths to eight cars. And BART says it’s trying to do several things there. One thing running fewer cars actually saves maintenance costs and makes the system a little cheaper to run. They have fewer cars to clean. They can process a lot more of them a lot more quickly. They also say it will be easier to police the trains with both uniformed police officers, fare inspectors, crisis intervention specialists and community ambassadors that it’s easier to manage the shorter trains. And then there’s the idea that having shorter trains means, of course, the crowding is going to be more of a factor. There’s a denser population and having more people on the cars will discourage people from doing things that other passengers might not like so much. And finally, having the shorter trains means that people, when they want to ride in the front car, for instance, to be near a train operator, This is an issue for women passengers especially. They don’t have to wait all the way at the end of a lonely platform to do that. So that’s what BART’s up to with the shorter trains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I do feel like most of the talk about BART lately has been pretty negative. I mean, everyone kind of keeps talking about these fears of safety on BART, and I want to play this one voicemail that we actually got from Jimmy from San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Jimmy from San Francisco \u003c/strong>One traumatic experience I remember actually was not too long ago, I was actually at the 16th Mission BART Station, and I recalled a couple of young juveniles had walked in the train. They sat right behind me, but I started smelling something. It turns out they were just lighting things on fire. I felt very uncomfortable. That ended up having to move to a different train. But, you know, I don’t think that’s the experience that most riders want to have. And I really think that BART to step down on its feet until they fix this issue. I don’t see myself coming back on BART.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I guess coming out of hearing what Jimmy just said. Like it sounds like these changes are an attempt to bring people like Jimmy back onto bar, it sounds like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke: \u003c/strong>Absolutely. And the thinking, moving from the abstract that I was talking about to the specific now, I mean, the thinking is that if there were a lot of people on that train car, these two people who were doing something that was disturbing and dangerous wouldn’t do that. Now, there are some people who are very bold about what they’ll do, and maybe they wouldn’t be deterred by that. But anyway, that is the theory for sure. And that is a good example, that episode that he’s talking about of the kinds of things that people say they just don’t want to see.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Can you give us a sense of what is going on in the minds of the people running the agency? Like, what is their motivation behind these changes?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke: \u003c/strong>Bottom line, they really need to get writers to return in large numbers much, much larger than they’ve seen so far. The state legislature has also weighed in on this. They want to see real improvements in public transit performance. And BART often comes up in these conversations before the state commits more money to public transit. That is really the long term thinking there. And the reason it’s so particularly important for BART is because historically it has depended on passengers to help run the railroad on a day to day basis. I mean, BART was paying, you know, depending on how you count the dollars, 60 to 70% of its operating costs from passenger fares. And, of course, that has crashed longer term. Voters in the Bay Area in all, nine counties are going to be asked at some point to pass some kind of tax measure that will provide permanent or at least very long term operating support for BART. And BART has to make the case that it’s worth a yes vote when that finally comes to the ballot, probably in 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, I know it’s early, Dan, but do we know anything about whether these changes are actually working?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke: \u003c/strong>Well, based on the first three days of ridership numbers, it seems to be working very, very well. On Monday, they had 158,000 riders, which was the best Monday they’ve had since March 2020. On Tuesday, they had 192,000 riders, which was their best day ever since the pandemic started. And then Wednesday, they were just a hair short of 193,000. So another record. So three days in a row they’ve had what amounts to record ridership. We know that there are things going on. We don’t know the impact of Dreamforce, for instance, this big convention that Salesforce holds in San Francisco, that’s adding to ridership to some extent. We don’t know exactly how much, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>We did hear from a listener, Michelle from Livermore, who definitely loves BART, but who is, I think, one of the people who’s starting to notice the impact of these changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Michelle from Livermore \u003c/strong>Just now tonight, I’m coming back from commuting and I know it’s Dreamforce, but with shorter, less amount of cars on the train. Oh my God. It was packed like New York City passed to where the operator had to tell people near the doors to give room so that people could leave as their stops to get out. So it’s going to take a little bit of choreography for people to understand, to move into the center as much as they can. Instead of hanging out by the doors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I love that little bit of choreography. I feel like that’s not something people have really had to think about on board anymore. But now, I mean, I’m like, remember when people would have to take off their backpacks to make room for other people in the bar, Jane’s den.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke: \u003c/strong>That is just what I was thinking of. But what she’s talking about is, is the BART experience people had from, say, 2014 to 20 1819, especially that people didn’t love. But, you know, as Michelle said, it was reminiscent of New York. Guess what? New York is the number one transit friendly, if not entirely transit efficient city on the continent. And, you know, that’s the way you move around masses of people in a dense city. And so we’ll see. I mean, I think this is something BART is going to have to negotiate with its riders somewhat. They have already said that they’re watching crowding statistics very closely and that they will add longer trains as needed as the situation evolves, and especially if riders start to return. And even larger numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>People, I think, do want BART to work. And we actually got a voicemail from someone who acknowledges that like, yes, BART is a little rough around the edges, but we do just kind of want it to work. 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That plus the delays and all the other problems that regular riders are probably used to seeing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Montage of listener voicemails: \u003c/strong>They often go home for Sunday dinner with the family and it’s often really delayed and it just feels inconsistent. It’s also already way too expensive. I used to actually be a regular BART right here. I do agree with a lot of the sentiment regarding the public that it’s just a little unfair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>But this week, BART made some big changes to its system and the agency is hoping that it’s enough to bring people back and riders are hoping so, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Montage of listener voicemails: \u003c/strong>I definitely have noticed the new schedule this week and it’s been a welcome change. Overall, I’d really continue to root for BART and hope that they can figure out their financing. I really hope to see BART fully recover because it is a great service, but I want it to be better and I love it because I know that it’s not the best we deserve, but I want it to be better and it’s the best we have right now. Ugh, I have mixed feelings, I love BART and I hate BART.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Today we’re talking with KQED, Dan Brakey, about all the changes BART just made to its system and the tall order. It’s got to win your heart back. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Dan Brekke is a transportation editor for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke: \u003c/strong>One of the changes would be that no one would ever have more than a 20 minute wait. That would happen by actually reducing some of the weekdays service on the lesser traveled lines like the line between Richmond and Barry s, for instance, there would be an increase in service on the busiest line, which is the line between Pittsburgh, Bay Point and SFO, San Francisco International Airport. Now the trade off on that line is those trains are running every 10 minutes and those other lines like from Richmond to Barry s, they’re only running every 20 minutes. And if they sort of evened everything out, you could have trains all day, every day, every 20 minutes. It’s a big change. 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You know, these new cars represent a big advance in the customer experience in a lot of ways. But there are some things that people don’t like so much. The seating configuration is different. Some people find the seats too hard and stuff like that. But anyway, you have brand new cars, better ventilation and better signage and announcements and all of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And then the trains are also going to be shorter, like actually fewer cars, right? What’s that about?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke: \u003c/strong>At the beginning of the pandemic, BART began running almost exclusively ten car trains. And that was because there was this concern about social distancing. There were many fewer people riding, but to make them feel comfortable, the trains were made longer than they typically had been earlier so that people could space themselves out on the cars. But BART is looking at a number of things that make it feel like it needed to change how it was managing those train lengths. So what they’ve done starting this week is to just run shorter trains on most lines like the one from Richmond to Barry S in the East Bay or from Dublin, Pleasanton to Daly City, for instance. They’re cutting the train lengths from the typical ten cars before to six cars. And then on that busy Pittsburgh Bay point to SFO line they’re cutting the train lengths to eight cars. And BART says it’s trying to do several things there. One thing running fewer cars actually saves maintenance costs and makes the system a little cheaper to run. They have fewer cars to clean. They can process a lot more of them a lot more quickly. They also say it will be easier to police the trains with both uniformed police officers, fare inspectors, crisis intervention specialists and community ambassadors that it’s easier to manage the shorter trains. 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Voters in the Bay Area in all, nine counties are going to be asked at some point to pass some kind of tax measure that will provide permanent or at least very long term operating support for BART. And BART has to make the case that it’s worth a yes vote when that finally comes to the ballot, probably in 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, I know it’s early, Dan, but do we know anything about whether these changes are actually working?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke: \u003c/strong>Well, based on the first three days of ridership numbers, it seems to be working very, very well. On Monday, they had 158,000 riders, which was the best Monday they’ve had since March 2020. On Tuesday, they had 192,000 riders, which was their best day ever since the pandemic started. And then Wednesday, they were just a hair short of 193,000. So another record. So three days in a row they’ve had what amounts to record ridership. We know that there are things going on. We don’t know the impact of Dreamforce, for instance, this big convention that Salesforce holds in San Francisco, that’s adding to ridership to some extent. We don’t know exactly how much, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>We did hear from a listener, Michelle from Livermore, who definitely loves BART, but who is, I think, one of the people who’s starting to notice the impact of these changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Michelle from Livermore \u003c/strong>Just now tonight, I’m coming back from commuting and I know it’s Dreamforce, but with shorter, less amount of cars on the train. Oh my God. It was packed like New York City passed to where the operator had to tell people near the doors to give room so that people could leave as their stops to get out. 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And, you know, that’s the way you move around masses of people in a dense city. And so we’ll see. I mean, I think this is something BART is going to have to negotiate with its riders somewhat. They have already said that they’re watching crowding statistics very closely and that they will add longer trains as needed as the situation evolves, and especially if riders start to return. And even larger numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>People, I think, do want BART to work. And we actually got a voicemail from someone who acknowledges that like, yes, BART is a little rough around the edges, but we do just kind of want it to work. 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The service was running on a shoestring, and it really isn’t part of people’s daily lives the way it has been in the more recent past. Here we are, three and a half years after that pandemic crash, and BART still isn’t at 50% of its weekday ridership. So BART’s trying to improve its public image, show that it’s responding to rider sentiment and providing the best service that people can reasonably expect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, Dan, thank you so much for chatting with me about BART. I really appreciate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke: \u003c/strong>I really appreciate being asked to chat about it. I love talking to you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>That was Dan Brekke, a transportation editor for KQED. This 40-minute conversation with Dan was cut down and edited by producer Maria Esquinca. 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"content": "\u003cp>Big changes have just come to BART, with the launch of \u003ca href=\"https://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2023/news20230427\">a “reimagined” service beginning Monday\u003c/a>, complete with \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23924017/bart-sizing-trains-for-safety-and-efficiency-presentation.pdf\">significantly shorter trains (PDF)\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.bart.gov/sites/default/files/2023-08/BART%20WDAY%20Scheds%209_11_2023%20REV.pdf\">a new timetable (PDF)\u003c/a> that promises riders won’t wait more than 20 minutes for a train, no matter what time of day or what day of the week they’re traveling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trains will also run more frequently than ever — every 10 minutes — on BART’s busiest route, the Yellow Line between Pittsburg/Bay Point and San Francisco International Airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#maxwait\">What are BART’s new maximum wait times?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#moreservice\">Which BART lines are getting more frequent weekday service?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#lessservice\">How is BART’s direct transbay service being reduced?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#shorttrains\">Why are some BART trains now shorter?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#timedtransfers\">How will timed transfers on BART now work?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>BART says the new schedule is designed to attract riders who have stayed away from the system because of the 30-minute wait times that have been standard during evenings and on weekends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond the schedule makeover, the revamped service now includes two other changes BART riders are certain to notice starting Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11958899/do-you-love-barts-nixon-era-train-cars-ride-now-because-theyre-about-to-go-away\">BART will be retiring its 1970s-era legacy fleet\u003c/a> from regular service. You may see some of the older cars running occasionally, but starting Monday, the agency intends to provide all service with its new “Fleet of the Future” cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Second, BART has now begun to run significantly shorter trains on all of its lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency has defaulted to running long trains — typically 10 cars, the maximum length the system accommodates, with some lines seeing eight-car “consists” — since the start of pandemic stay-at-home orders took effect in March 2020.[aside postID=\"news_11958899,news_11942359,news_11791910\" label=\"Related Stories\"]The idea was that the longer trains allowed room for COVID social distancing. Now the agency says that long trains and often very sparsely populated cars have come with unintended consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Empty spaces encourage anti-social behavior, harassment and targeted crimes,” BART management said in a presentation this week to the agency’s board. On the other hand, the document said “active spaces” — ones with plenty of people around — discourage that negative behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Eliminating empty and sparse train cars will create a safer, more welcoming environment for women, girls, gender non-conforming people, senior citizens, families and all riders,” the presentation concluded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART says shorter trains will bring other benefits, too: They’ll be easier to police, simpler to clean and cheaper to run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency acknowledges riders will see more crowded trains when the changes take effect — although conditions won’t be anything close to the “crush loads” that were the norm for rush hour commuters in the years leading up to the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking to the board on Aug. 24, BART Chief Communications Officer Alicia Trost acknowledged that some passengers will be concerned about crowding when they see the shorter trains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the six-car train pulls up, they’re going to be like, ‘What is BART doing to me?’ she said. But she added that the agency plans to carefully monitor any crowding that develops and is prepared to respond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will be watching,” Trost said. “We will be holding ourselves accountable. If the train is just completely packed, we can add more cars. It’s as simple as that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What are the big BART service and schedule changes?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Here are the main features of the service changes that went into effect Monday:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"maxwait\">\u003c/a>Maximum wait times of 20 minutes on all lines at all hours\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of passengers’ major knocks on BART’s night and weekend service is the 30-minute wait between trains. Starting Monday, the maximum scheduled wait time between trains will be 20 minutes, Monday through Sunday during all operating hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"moreservice\">\u003c/a>More frequent weekday service on BART’s most heavily traveled line\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART is reducing headways — the time between trains — on its Antioch-SFO route, also known as its Yellow Line. BART will run six trains an hour on that line between just before 5 a.m. until 9:30 p.m. every weeknight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the previous schedule, which predates the pandemic but has been adjusted at various points over the last three-and-a-half years, Yellow Line trains have run every 15 minutes from early morning through early evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"lessservice\">\u003c/a>Less frequent direct transbay service on BART’s less heavily traveled lines\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make it possible to run trains every 20 minutes during weekend and evening hours, the weekday frequency of direct trains on some lines is being reduced from every 15 minutes to every 20 minutes. This is true on the eBART (Pittsburg/Bay Point-Antioch), Red (Richmond-SFO/Millbrae), Orange (Richmond-Berryessa/North San José), Green (Berryessa/North San José-Daly City) and Blue (Dublin/Pleasanton-Daly City) lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART advises that service from all East Bay stations to San Francisco will be available every 10 minutes until 9 p.m. each evening — with a timed transfer along the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"shorttrains\">\u003c/a>Shorter BART trains are here\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many years, BART has run 10-car trains during commute hours and shorter “consists” at off-peak times. Faced with concerns about social distancing at the beginning of the pandemic, BART began running as many 10-car trains as it could. That has now changed, and starting Monday the system has gone to eight-car trains on the Antioch-SFO (Yellow) line and 6-car trains on all other lines. BART says it anticipates “manageable” crowding at peak hours, but adds the benefits will more than make up for the discomfort some people might experience riding in significantly fuller cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23924017/bart-sizing-trains-for-safety-and-efficiency-presentation.pdf\">The agency says in an Aug. 24 presentation (PDF)\u003c/a> prepared for the board that running shorter trains will make the system safer by making it easier for police and non-uniformed personnel to patrol trains. Having denser passenger loads could also discourage “anti-social behavior,” BART says, and make it easier to keep trains clean. Finally, running shorter trains will save money — an estimated $12 million a year — thus answering calls from critics who have called on BART to operate more efficiently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"timedtransfers\">\u003c/a>How BART’s timed transfers are supposed to work\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART has used timed transfers for years during evening and weekend service to try to provide a delay-free ride for those traveling from San Francisco and the Peninsula to East Bay locations and vice versa. For instance, if you’re on an Antioch (Yellow Line) train and want to get to El Cerrito Plaza on the Richmond (Red) line, BART’s timed transfer stop is at Oakland’s 19th Street station. If the timing is working according to plan, a Richmond train should be arriving just as you get off the Antioch train.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s how the system is supposed to work. In practice, unexpected delays for either train involved in the timed transfer mean passengers will miss their connection and wind up waiting longer than anticipated to get home, or to the show or the airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11958814\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/BART-Timed-Train-Meets.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11958814\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/BART-Timed-Train-Meets-800x424.jpg\" alt='A graphic showing to separate graphs and with a title that reads \"Punctuality – Timed Train Meets.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/BART-Timed-Train-Meets-800x424.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/BART-Timed-Train-Meets-1020x541.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/BART-Timed-Train-Meets-160x85.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/BART-Timed-Train-Meets-1536x814.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/BART-Timed-Train-Meets-2048x1086.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/BART-Timed-Train-Meets-1920x1018.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">BART graphic showing performance of timed train meets at Oakland’s MacArthur and 19th Street stations. \u003ccite>(BART Quarterly Performance Report for Q4 FY 2023.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>How often do the timed train meets get fouled up?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23923918/bart-quarterly-service-performance-review-fourth-quarter-fiscal-year-2023.pdf\">BART’s latest quarterly performance report (PDF)\u003c/a>, covering the period from April through June, shows that trains met as scheduled between 75% and 80% of the time on weekdays and between 85% and 90% on weekends. Trains running from San Francisco and the Peninsula to the East Bay were slightly more likely to experience delays getting to the transfer stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"moreinfo\">\u003c/a>More information:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://www.bart.gov/sites/default/files/2023-08/BART%20WDAY%20Scheds%209_11_2023%20REV.pdf\">See BART’s new timetable which has gone into effect\u003c/a> as of Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>An earlier version of this story was published on Aug. 24.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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On the other hand, the document said “active spaces” — ones with plenty of people around — discourage that negative behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Eliminating empty and sparse train cars will create a safer, more welcoming environment for women, girls, gender non-conforming people, senior citizens, families and all riders,” the presentation concluded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART says shorter trains will bring other benefits, too: They’ll be easier to police, simpler to clean and cheaper to run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency acknowledges riders will see more crowded trains when the changes take effect — although conditions won’t be anything close to the “crush loads” that were the norm for rush hour commuters in the years leading up to the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking to the board on Aug. 24, BART Chief Communications Officer Alicia Trost acknowledged that some passengers will be concerned about crowding when they see the shorter trains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the six-car train pulls up, they’re going to be like, ‘What is BART doing to me?’ she said. But she added that the agency plans to carefully monitor any crowding that develops and is prepared to respond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will be watching,” Trost said. “We will be holding ourselves accountable. If the train is just completely packed, we can add more cars. It’s as simple as that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What are the big BART service and schedule changes?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Here are the main features of the service changes that went into effect Monday:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"maxwait\">\u003c/a>Maximum wait times of 20 minutes on all lines at all hours\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of passengers’ major knocks on BART’s night and weekend service is the 30-minute wait between trains. Starting Monday, the maximum scheduled wait time between trains will be 20 minutes, Monday through Sunday during all operating hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"moreservice\">\u003c/a>More frequent weekday service on BART’s most heavily traveled line\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART is reducing headways — the time between trains — on its Antioch-SFO route, also known as its Yellow Line. BART will run six trains an hour on that line between just before 5 a.m. until 9:30 p.m. every weeknight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the previous schedule, which predates the pandemic but has been adjusted at various points over the last three-and-a-half years, Yellow Line trains have run every 15 minutes from early morning through early evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"lessservice\">\u003c/a>Less frequent direct transbay service on BART’s less heavily traveled lines\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make it possible to run trains every 20 minutes during weekend and evening hours, the weekday frequency of direct trains on some lines is being reduced from every 15 minutes to every 20 minutes. This is true on the eBART (Pittsburg/Bay Point-Antioch), Red (Richmond-SFO/Millbrae), Orange (Richmond-Berryessa/North San José), Green (Berryessa/North San José-Daly City) and Blue (Dublin/Pleasanton-Daly City) lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART advises that service from all East Bay stations to San Francisco will be available every 10 minutes until 9 p.m. each evening — with a timed transfer along the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"shorttrains\">\u003c/a>Shorter BART trains are here\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many years, BART has run 10-car trains during commute hours and shorter “consists” at off-peak times. Faced with concerns about social distancing at the beginning of the pandemic, BART began running as many 10-car trains as it could. That has now changed, and starting Monday the system has gone to eight-car trains on the Antioch-SFO (Yellow) line and 6-car trains on all other lines. BART says it anticipates “manageable” crowding at peak hours, but adds the benefits will more than make up for the discomfort some people might experience riding in significantly fuller cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23924017/bart-sizing-trains-for-safety-and-efficiency-presentation.pdf\">The agency says in an Aug. 24 presentation (PDF)\u003c/a> prepared for the board that running shorter trains will make the system safer by making it easier for police and non-uniformed personnel to patrol trains. Having denser passenger loads could also discourage “anti-social behavior,” BART says, and make it easier to keep trains clean. Finally, running shorter trains will save money — an estimated $12 million a year — thus answering calls from critics who have called on BART to operate more efficiently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"timedtransfers\">\u003c/a>How BART’s timed transfers are supposed to work\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART has used timed transfers for years during evening and weekend service to try to provide a delay-free ride for those traveling from San Francisco and the Peninsula to East Bay locations and vice versa. For instance, if you’re on an Antioch (Yellow Line) train and want to get to El Cerrito Plaza on the Richmond (Red) line, BART’s timed transfer stop is at Oakland’s 19th Street station. If the timing is working according to plan, a Richmond train should be arriving just as you get off the Antioch train.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s how the system is supposed to work. 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