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This afternoon, BART Directors Janice Li and Edward Wright met with Assemblymember Catherine Stefani (D-San Francisco). They gave her an update on ridership recovery and rider satisfaction ratings as well as District initiatives like the Next Generation Fare Gates project. They discussed with the Assemblymember the importance of the loan for Bay Area transit agencies that was included in this year’s state budget as well as how we can help her, as a co-author of the bill, get Senate Bill (SB) 63 passed through the Legislature to keep BART serving our riders in the short and medium terms.

The Pistahan Parade and Festival is this weekend in San Francisco! Celebrate Filipino culture during a two-day event in Yerba Buena Gardens with music, food and live entertainment. Exit BART at Civic Center/UN Plaza or Powell St on Saturday, and you'll be right along the parade route. It starts at 11 a.m. sharp, AND the BARTmobile will be making a special appearance! The festival will take place at Yerba Buena Gardens from 11am-5pm on Saturday and Sunday. Take BART to Powell St or Montgomery St and head towards the music! The festival entrance is about 0.4 miles away from both stations. Load up your Clipper card and meet us there!

BART is seeking a seasoned and innovative professional to serve as its next District Secretary. The position is an appointed officer reporting to the BART Board of Directors.   Responsibilities of the BART District Secretary include: - Managing all aspects of Board and committee meetings - Coordinating with partner counties for elections - Drafting and coordinating external communications on behalf of Board members - Leading strategic initiatives and special projects in accordance with Board priorities   BART is looking for a politically astute and service-oriented administrator and executive to fill this impactful role. Apply today or share this position with your network. https://xmrrwallet.com/cmx.plnkd.in/dWrAkWqH

Have you see a BART car in the wild? People are always sending photos in from the road asking what is going on with these trains spotted on flatbed trucks around the U.S. Those cars are heading to BART’s Hayward Test Track by way of Plattsburgh, New York, where Alstom's manufacturing facilities are located. Once the cars are complete, Alstom puts them on a truck and ship them to our test track for final testing. Last week, the 1000th Fleet of the Future car completed its weekslong journey to the test track! Learn more about how we get the new cars ready for service at https://xmrrwallet.com/cmx.plnkd.in/grvfdTgR

Work is poised to begin on the installation of Next Generation Fare Gates at Balboa Park Station this Friday, August 8. The work will happen in stages so riders can continue to use the remaining gates while new ones are being installed. There will be additional BART staff as well as signage to direct riders to the open gates. There will also be a service gate available for those riders who would typically use an accessibility gate. The installation of each new set of gates is expected to take up to two weeks to complete. We now have the Next Generation Fare Gates at 46 stations across the system. All 50 BART stations will have new fare gates by the end of 2025.

Join BART for our first Under the Stars ⭐ Family Movie Night on Saturday, August 16 at Concord Station. Before the feature film, Madagascar, rolls, we'll be taking the public on a visual, virtual ride of all 131 miles of the BART System. This never-before-seen 🎥 footage lets you step into the shoes of a Train Operator for a 20-minute journey across every line, end to end. And you'll get to see it FIRST at Under the Stars. 🗓️ Saturday, Aug. 16, 7pm doors/8pm showtime 📍 Concord Station Tickets: Railgoods.com

Ever dream of working for BART, helping move people around the Bay Area? This summer, a group of BART interns developed an RPG video game that gives an educational, inside look at what it's like working for a transit agency! The prototype game is called Transiteers, and it allows you to step into the shoes of an intern to meet different BART employees. Through various mini games, you learn all about the work BART employees do, from cleaning stations to rebuilding track. We’ve included some screenshots from the game below, which the public will be able to play soon. The BART intern team that created Transiteers just won first place in the Introducing Youth to American Infrastructure (iyai+) Grand Innovation Challenge, competing against multiple North American transit agencies. Transiteers is a great example of meeting young people where they’re at in order to help foster the next generation of transit workers. It’s educational and fun, too! Congrats to Marl Jonson, Bhavya Anand, Aaron Chang, and Isaac Santillan for their great work on this game. The Transiteers team will continue their work on the final phase of development into the school year. We’ll share the link to play Transiteers when it’s ready for showtime!

BART invites you to join us Under the Stars for a family movie night at Concord Station! We'll be screening footage filmed from a Train Operator's perspective showing all 131 miles of the BART System -- see it here first! -- followed by family favorite film Madagascar. More details 👇

BART is recruiting volunteer candidates to fill three vacant seats on the Measure RR Bond Oversight Committee. The committee provides diligent and public oversight of the expenditure of funds from bond sales associated with Measure RR, which is a $3.5 billion bond measure approved by BART District voters in 2016 to rebuild the system’s core infrastructure. Members of the Bond Oversight Committee represent a diversity of expertise, geography, and demographic characteristics. BART is looking for candidates to fill the electrical engineer, civil engineer, and Certified Public Accountant seats on the committee. All committee members are unpaid volunteers. Learn more at bart.gov/bondoversight.

Join BART beneath the Bay Area sky for a 🎥 family movie night on Saturday, August 16, at Concord Station! We’re transforming the station parking lot into a 🏕️ camp-themed movie theatre to screen beloved family-favorite film Madagascar. But WAIT there's more! Before the movie rolls, we're showing never-before-seen footage filmed from a Train Operator’s point of view along all 131 miles of the BART System. The virtual ride offers a sped-up and mesmerizing perspective of the Bay Area from the five BART lines end to end. See it here first! Pre-movie activities include crafting and lanyard making, face painting, photo ops, Under the Stars sticker giveaways and more. See you under the stars! 🎟️ Buy tickets (singles or discounted family pack of 4) on Railgoods.com More details at https://xmrrwallet.com/cmx.plnkd.in/gNrPA5Nk