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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.

Trains will be more evenly spaced apart for Richmond-bound riders coming from San Francisco, which means wait times will be reduced and trains will have less crowding. Yellow Line and Red Line trains will be spaced 10 minutes apart instead of 5 and 15 minutes today.

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.

Antioch to/from Berkeley/El Cerrito/Richmond Riders coming from Antioch (Yellow Line) transferring toward Richmond (Orange or Red Line) will save 17 minutes with a new four-minute transfer at MacArthur from Platform 4 to Platform 1.

BART to Antioch Transfer Platform Yellow Line riders who ride to Antioch will experience better connections at the transfer platform in Pittsburg. Currently, regular Antioch-bound Yellow Line BART trains are often slightly delayed because they hold for an Orange Line train at 19th Street.

This is causing compounding delays further up the Yellow Line at the BART to Antioch transfer platform for riders connecting to and from a DMU train.

This schedule change will now have the Orange Line train coming in sooner to meet the Yellow Line train improving on time performance and thus improving the timed connection at the transfer platform.

Reduced confusion at SFO Station Red and Yellow line trains coming in and out of SFO Station will now be better spaced apart, reducing confusion over which train to board and which train will leave first.

Currently, a Yellow Line train towards the city and the East Bay arrives first to the platform but holds longer due to a change in train operators. While a Red Line train coming from Millbrae arrives at the platform and then departs before the Yellow Line train following a brief dwell time.

This pattern is frustrating to riders who have boarded the Yellow Line train thinking it will leave first. This schedule change will reduce the frequency in which both the Yellow and Red line trains are at the platform for boarding at the same time.

By changing how trains come in and out of the Daly City Station, the entire BART network will become more resilient because Day City Station’s current configuration can be a choke point for train congestion and service volatility, causing ripple effects on the entire system.

The Daly City Station will now operate as a center platform station, like other stations in San Francisco, simplifying the rider experience. All San Francisco-bound trains will depart from a single platform.

Platform 3 will now be a terminal for the Blue and Green lines, meaning it will be an exit only platform for riders getting off at Daly City and then those trains will head out of service to the nearby yard.