The entrance on the southwest side of the station will be closed off to public access for approximately six months while a new protective escalator canopy is built. BART service currently extends as far as Millbrae, Richmond, Antioch, Dublin/Pleasanton, and Berryessa/North San José. On Monday, January 3, 2022, our contractor will build a work enclosure around the New Montgomery and Market Street entrance to Montgomery Street Station.
MONTGOMERY BART STATION DRIVERS
Train drivers heading into the downtown area announced over intercoms that they would stop at one of the downtown stations, but didn't know which one would be open when they got there.Ī train this reporter was riding on rushed past two downtown stations, one empty and one full of chanting protesters, before it finally stopped at the last San Francisco station before heading under San Francisco Bay for Oakland.Īt times protesters also went above ground to stand and chant around BART station entrances. Welcome to BARTBay Area Rapid Transit (BART) connects the San Francisco Peninsula with communities in the East Bay and South Bay. According to BART riders, a group of about 40 people jumped on and off at different downtown stops, shutting down stations briefly and then melting back into the crowd and heading to another stop.
MUNI Metro provides light rail service throughout the City. The protesters then embarked on a cat and mouse game with BART police. BART offers fast, convenient regional service, with two stations Powell St Station, and Montgomery Street station located only two blocks walk to The Moscone Center. Day weekend of protest aimed at highlighting police aggression.īy 7:45 a.m, the protesters had left the Montgomery Street station and were marching towards the Embarcadero, San Francisco's wharf area at the base of Market Street.īART shut down the Embarcadero station just before 8 a.m. Organizers said the protest was part of a larger Martin Luther King Jr. An entrance to the Montgomery BART train station in San Francisco will close starting Monday so crews can build a new escalator canopy. 24 after the protesters chained themselves to trains and each other at the West Oakland station.īART, officially Bay Area Rapid Transit, briefly ceased having trains stop at the Montgomery Street station at around 7:30 a.m., BART officials said. The protestors said they were shutting down stations to call attention to what they say is the unfair prosecution of 14 protesters charged by Alameda County prosecutors. SAN FRANCISCO - A very loud protest against police violence shut several downtown BART stations here Friday morning.īeginning around 7 a.m., dozens of protesters banged metal spoons against every hard surface they could find in San Francisco's Montgomery BART station, one of three downtown BART stops.
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