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📢News: BART’s schedule will change on August 10, 2026, with longer trains and big improvements and efficiencies that will reduce delays and crowding! Longer trains will actually come to the Red, Yellow, Blue and Green lines during peak commute hours starting July 20! Thread 👇

By making a change in how trains travel through Daly City Station and operating it as a center platform station, service will be improved throughout the system with more even headways, better transfers, and less train congestion.

With these improvements, some departure times will shift by a few minutes, and we encourage riders to check the schedule before August 10, 2026, to see if their trip is impacted. Read more here: bart.gov/news/article... Or keep reading the thread for more info 👇

Beginning Monday, July 20, BART will begin to run some longer trains on the Red, Yellow, Blue and Green lines during peak commute hours with some shorter trains running during non-peak hours and on the Orange Line.

For the Red Line, peak period will have 10-car trains (currently 8-and 6-cars) with 5-car trains during non-peak (currently 6-cars). For the Yellow Line, 8 of the busiest morning trains and six of the busiest afternoon trains will be increased to 10-cars during peak periods (currently 9-cars).

For the Green Line, two additional morning trains toward San Francisco will be 8-cars in length (currently four trains run as 8-cars and the rest are 6-cars).

For the Blue Line, one additional afternoon Blue Line train toward the East Bay will be 8-cars in length (currently four trains run as 8-cars and the rest are 6-cars).

For the Orange Line, four trains will run as 5-cars and the rest will remain 6-cars.

This gives riders the option to take a Yellow Line train and transfer at 19th Street/Oakland to a Richmond-bound Orange Line train or they can take the direct Red Line train. This will more evenly distribute riders in San Francisco and ease crowding.

Better spacing for Dublin and Berryessa-bound riders Dublin- and Berryessa-bound riders will also have better spacing between Green and Blue line trains, from 3 and 17 minutes today to 8 and 12 minutes. This will reduce wait times on the platform and crowding on trains.

New and shorter transfers wait times: - Dublin to/from San Jose: There will be a new cross-platform transfer at Bay Fair for Dublin (Blue Line) to Berryessa (Orange Line) riders and the reverse trip. Currently the transfer is 19 minutes, now the trains will pull up together.

how does this affect the interval of pittsburg/bay point and antioch bound YL trains?