BART Hit With $210,000 Fine Over Track Worker Deaths

BART Hit With $210,000 Fine Over Track Worker Deaths

BART has been fined $210,000 by the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health for three safety violations that resulted in the deaths of two…

Medical Examiner Identifies Woman Fatally Struck By BART Train

Medical Examiner Identifies Woman Fatally Struck By BART Train

A woman fatally struck by a train at BART’s Balboa Park station in San Francisco on Tuesday afternoon has been identified by the medical examiner’s…

NTSB Reacts To BART Deaths With “Urgent” Safety Recommendations

NTSB Reacts To BART Deaths With “Urgent” Safety Recommendations

The National Transportation Safety Board today issued “urgent” safety recommendations to protect rail workers in the wake of the on-the-job deaths of two BART track…

Legislators Grill BART Managers Over Policies That Might Have Led To Three Deaths

Legislators Grill BART Managers Over Policies That Might Have Led To Three Deaths

Two BART managers were grilled by California legislators at a hearing in San Francisco today about why BART kept a controversial safety procedure in place…

Now That Unions Have Approved Tentative Contract Agreement, BART Board Must Vote

Now That Unions Have Approved Tentative Contract Agreement, BART Board Must Vote

A second BART union whose members walked off the job during two strikes this year has approved a tentative contract agreement with the transit agency’s…

In Wake Of BART Deaths, PUC Announces New Rail Safety Rules For Workers

In Wake Of BART Deaths, PUC Announces New Rail Safety Rules For Workers

The California Public Utilities Commission at a meeting in San Francisco today adopted what it called the nation’s first comprehensive set of safety rules for…

BART Drops Practice Expecting Workers To Be Responsible For Own Safety, Warns That It May Disrupt Service

BART Drops Practice Expecting Workers To Be Responsible For Own Safety, Warns That It May Disrupt Service

Two BART union leaders said today they welcomed the news that the agency is dropping a controversial safety protocol known as “simple approval” after two…

Harsh Words Fly At BART Board Meeting After Resolution To Honor Victims Of Fatal Collision Is Approved

Harsh Words Fly At BART Board Meeting After Resolution To Honor Victims Of Fatal Collision Is Approved

The hard feelings that marked BART’s contract talks with its union resurfaced today when the transit agency’s board honored two workers who were struck and…

Fatal Accident Prompts BART To Suspend Practice Requiring Track Workers To Be Responsible For Own Safety

Fatal Accident Prompts BART To Suspend Practice Requiring Track Workers To Be Responsible For Own Safety

BART has suspended a procedure known as “simple approval” for workers conducting maintenance along transit train tracks, a BART spokeswoman said tonight. The procedure was…

NTSB: BART Policy Says Workers On Tracks Are Responsible For Their Own Safety

NTSB: BART Policy Says Workers On Tracks Are Responsible For Their Own Safety

The two BART workers who were struck and killed by a train while inspecting the tracks during the second day of a BART strike over…

NTSB: Driver In Fatal BART Crash Wasn’t A Certified Train Operator

NTSB: Driver In Fatal BART Crash Wasn’t A Certified Train Operator

The operator of a BART train that struck and killed two workers near the Walnut Creek station on Saturday was in training, a National Transportation…

Mayor Lee Cuts Asia Trip Short In Wake Of BART Strike, Deaths

Mayor Lee Cuts Asia Trip Short In Wake Of BART Strike, Deaths

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee has come home early from an overseas trip to Asia and this afternoon called for a resolution to the BART…

Names Of Workers Killed By BART Train Released

Names Of Workers Killed By BART Train Released

Two workers who were struck and killed by a BART train on Saturday have been identified by the Contra Costa County coroner’s office as Laurence…

Striking BART Unions Submit Work Rules Compromise Proposal

Striking BART Unions Submit Work Rules Compromise Proposal

Officials with two striking BART unions said they had submitted a new proposal this evening that would offer flexibility on some work rules but retain…

NTSB: No Video Footage Of Fatal BART Collision

NTSB: No Video Footage Of Fatal BART Collision

The National Transportation Safety Board has launched an investigation into the deaths of two BART workers who were struck by a train during maintenance work…

Candlelight Vigils Planned For Victims Of Fatal BART Collision

Candlelight Vigils Planned For Victims Of Fatal BART Collision

Officials from the National Transportation Safety Board arrived in the Bay Area today to investigate a BART train accident that killed two workers on Saturday…

BART Now Saying They’re Not Sure Who Was Driving Train In Fatal Crash, NTSB Taking Over Investigation (Video)

BART Now Saying They’re Not Sure Who Was Driving Train In Fatal Crash, NTSB Taking Over Investigation (Video)

The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the deaths of two BART workers killed in a collision on the tracks this afternoon, officials said today….

BART Radio Communications Tell Tale Of Train Accident That Killed Two (Audio)

BART Radio Communications Tell Tale Of Train Accident That Killed Two (Audio)

BART police have confirmed that two BART workers were struck and killed by a BART train that was “under computer control” this afternoon. A report…