'BART must evolve from a commute-driven service to one that spreads high-quality service across all 7-days of the week,” BART Director Rebecca Saltzman tweeted on Monday.
Adjusting to the post-pandemic “new normal,” BART is planning to improve service at night and on the weekends — to the detriment of daytime commuters.
The system — planned and built primarily to link workers living in the suburbs to downtown offices — saw an average of about 151,000 daily weekday riders in March, about 37% of pre-pandemic expectations. Ex // Top Stories Elon Musk's rocket blew up, but purge of verified Twitter users did not Unless you're paying for a subscription, Twitter's verified blue checkmarks are a thing of the past. And some public figures who have them say they didn't pay
In the absence of a return to in-person work for most, BART officials have heeded calls for more frequent service on weekends and weeknights. The yellow line, which runs between Millbrae and Antioch, would be the only one spared from the weekday daytime cuts. It’s BART’s most popular ride, with the busiest train seeing a passenger load more than three times that of the most-packed Orange line train, for example.
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