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The death of an unidentified man who was shot at close range on a San Francisco BART platform on Thursday night has led transit officials to add more officers.

Video of a homeless man using drugs on a BART train in San Francisco last month has gone viral, raising concerns about the continued homeless crisis in the city.

California’s bullet train appears to have released a “High Case” estimate of $98.1 billion to prepare the public for much higher tunneling costs.

The “Base Case” estimated cost to build California’s bullet train from San Francisco to Los Angeles has doubled to $77.3 billion, and could almost triple to $98.1 billion.

The cost to build the first 119 miles of California’s high-speed rail project across flat ground in the Central Valley has spiked to $89.1 million per mile.

BART is literally falling apart amidst a pile of excrement.

Hyperloop One may have just killed California’s high-speed rail project, after the company’s 28-foot long aluminum and carbon-fiber production-scale pod hit its first milestone by traveling down a 1,640-foot near-zero-resistance vacuum tube test-track at a speed of 70 miles-per-hour.

An attempted flash mob robbery at BART’s Coliseum Station in Oakland was foiled by a passenger who intervened to recover a woman’s phone.

Passengers of San Francisco’s BART commuter train system were terrorized Saturday when a large gang of up to 60 teens swarmed onto a train and began robbing and beating passengers, transit officials reported Monday morning.

Two advocacy groups and two individuals with disabilities filed a lawsuit in federal court in San Francisco on Wednesday alleging that BART has discriminated against people with disabilities by failing to maintain the transportation agency’s urine and feces-covered elevators.

The Board of San Francisco’s BART balked last Tuesday on a “call to declare the popular commuter line a ‘sanctuary’ system after being warned that the word might be seen as provocative by the Trump administration,” the San Francisco Chronicle reported this week.

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency’s computer system was hacked on Friday, accompanied by a ransom request to restore services, prompting Muni to offer free rides to customers on Saturday.

A California janitor collected a six-figure salary over the past year for the third year in a row, TIME reported.

On Sunday, before the second presidential debate, San Francisco BART’s social media team took to Twitter and trash-talked LA Metro using some of Donald Trump’s most iconic messages.

Bait-and-switch has been the language of California politicians from both parties, but the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) $3.5 billion capital construction bond initiative on the November ballot has a loophole allowing proceeds to subsidize union wage spikes.

One person is dead after a small plane crashed onto a BART track in Hayward, California on Sunday, causing a portion of the public transportation system to be shut down for several hours.

With the California High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSR) announcing another four-year delay in building the first link of its system, the cost for California’s ultimate boondoggle may increase by another $15 billion, to $79 billion.

Fear of violence from the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement spurred a member of BART’s board to apply, successfully, for a renewed carry and conceal license for a handgun so that he is able to protect himself.

BART passengers are cautiously optimistic that the state’s $2.6 billion effort to replace hundreds of new public transportation cars with new ones over the next five years will actually help improve their commutes — especially after a series of mechanical meltdowns and errors that have plagued riders for several years.

Wednesday evening’s shooting death aboard a San Francisco-bound BART train has revealed major security flaws within the agency’s surveillance system.

On Saturday night an identified man was shot and killed aboard a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) train as it pulled into the West Oakland platform.

Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) passengers in San Francisco may have been exposed to measles after an infected individual used the train to commute between work and home over three days last week, Contra Costa County health officials warned Wednesday.

#BlackLivesMatter protesters caused major traffic jams for commuters in Boston on Thursday by attaching themselves to 1200-lb. barrels on a major freeway and earning themselves the title “#Douchebarrels” on social media. In San Francisco, #BARTFriday protesters who blocked commuters from getting to work the following morning earned themselves the same title while causing a cacophony of irritating noises, using spoons, that immobilized the working masses for a while.

Facebook briefly shut down a page dedicated to informing activists planning a Friday protest for charges to be dropped against the arrest of 14 activists who chained themselves to trains and shut down the West Oakland BART station last November. The page was restored a few hours later.

Last November, protesters now known as the “Black Friday 14” were charged with criminal offenses and assessed fines totaling $70,000 for actions including chaining themselves to BART trains in West Oakland–offenses for which other “Black Lives Matter” activist groups are