Transit

BART implemented an updated schedule for passengers Monday as part of efforts to adapt to post-pandemic ridership.

University Village, campus’s graduate housing for families, plans to start charging residents for parking monthly in the 2024-2025 academic year.

Seniors citizens living in Harriet Tubman Terrace and other low-income apartment complexes in the area hosted an event Sept. 9 to celebrate the tenant association’s housing ombudsman with the city of Berkeley.

BART and its partnering organizations launched the second phase of their “Not One More Girl” campaign Aug. 31st.

The city of Berkeley announced a siren warning system flexible for various different disasters on its official site.

The California Department of Transportation, or Caltrans, has chosen 90 transportation projects throughout the state to award a collective $41.6 million in its annual planning grants for fiscal year 2023-24.

Bay Area ferries will require proof of payment when boarding instead of disembarking starting Aug. 10.

On July 27, BART’s Board of Directors voted 5-3 to oppose Assembly Bill 819, a state bill created by Assembly Majority Leader Isaac Bryan with the purpose of decriminalizing fare evaders.

AC Transit made a slate of changes to bus routes starting in August, including the extension of Line 7 and reduction of less traveled lines in Berkeley, it announced Thursday. 

The BART Board of Directors voted June 30 to support Senate Bill 532, authored by Sen. Scott Wiener, D-District 11, which temporarily raises Bay Area bridge tolls by $1.50 from January 2024 to December 2028 in order to fund public transit.