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Timeline of Bay Area Rapid Transit

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| 1986 || July 30 || Safety, Train cars || BART completes a fire-hardening program on all its transit vehicles, and claims that with the completion of the program, it has the most fire-safe transit vehicles in the United States.<ref name=bart-40-years/> ||
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| 1987 || || || Train cars || {{w|Alstom}} begins construction of C1 cars, a new type of train car, for BART. C1 cars, unlike the existing A and B cars, can be used both as middle cars and as end cars, allowing for more rapid resizing of train length.<ref name=bart-car-ills>{{cite news |url = http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SJ&s_site=mercurynews&p_multi=SJ&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB731C25CCAA9D1&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |title = BART Car ills |newspaper=San Jose Mercury News |date=February 23, 1990 |accessdate=August 23, 2009 |via=Newsbank.com}}</ref> For more, see {{w|Bay Area Rapid Transit rolling stock#C series}}.||
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| 1988 || || || Train cars || The C1 cars constructed by Alstom begin to enter service.<ref name=bart-why-new-cars>{{cite web|url = https://www.bart.gov/about/projects/cars/why-new-cars|title = Why New Cars|accessdate = June 27, 2018|publisher = Bay Area Rapid Transit}}</ref>
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| 1989 || || Train cars || The construction of C1 train cars by Alstom is completed.<ref name=bart-car-ills/> For more, see {{w|Bay Area Rapid Transit rolling stock#C series}}.
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| 1989 || || Construction || The improvements proposed in the 1985 Daly City Intermodal Study, including improvements to access, circulation, and parking, pedestrian access, and new park-and-ride facilities, are completed.<ref name=colma-feir/>{{rp|19}} ||
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| 1993 || || Fare collection || BART announces a project with [[w:County Connection|County Connection]], a bus service in the Concord area, to introduce Translink, a single fare card that can be operated across the two systems.<ref name="1995 Translink-end">{{cite news|last=Fimrite|first=Peter|title=Coding Problems To Derail BART's Translink Program|url=http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Coding-Problems-To-Derail-BART-s-Translink-Program-3019725.php|accessdate=June 19, 2017|newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle|date=November 15, 1995}}</ref> ||
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| 1994 || || Train cars || C2 train cars constructed for BART by {{w|Morrison-Knudsen}} enter service. Like the C1 cars constructed by Alstom, these train cars have the flexibility of being used both as middle and end cars, allowing for rapid train resizing.<ref name=bart-why-new-cars/>
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| 1994 || April || Team || {{w|Richard A. White}} becomes General Manager of BART after Frank Wilson leaves the position to become Secretary of Transportation for the state of New Jersey.<ref name=sfgate-white-leaves-bart>{{cite web|url = http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/BART-Boss-Leaving-to-Run-D-C-Transit-Authority-2979604.php|title = BART Boss Leaving to Run D.C. Transit Authority|last = Fimrite|first = Peter|date = June 1, 1996|accessdate = August 21, 2017|publisher = ''San Francisco Chronicle''}}</ref>
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| 1994 || August 31 || Train cars || The first of a new generation of transit cars arrives at the Hayward maintenance facility. The transit car is part of an 80-car order.<ref name=bart-40-years/> ||
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| 1995 || || Train cars || BART contracts with ADTranz, a subsidiary of Mercedes Benz (and later acquierd by Bombardier Corporation) to replace the brown seats in train cars with polyurethane cusioning.<ref name=bart-vinyl-seats>{{cite web|url = https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/18/vinyl-bart-seats-to-replace-carpeting_n_1101843.html|title = Vinyl BART Seats To Send Infamous Carpeting To The Scrap Heap|last = Sankin|first = Aaron|date = November 18, 2011|accessdate = July 27, 2018|publisher = ''Huffington Post''}}
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| 1995 || November 15 || Fare collection || BART and County Connection abandon Translink, their smart fare collection program, due to high costs.<ref name="1995 Translink-end"/> ||
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| 2011 || August 11 || Protests || To control protests (against the killing of Charles Blair Hill) in downtown San Francisco stations, BART turns off cellular service for a limited period of time in those stations.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.npr.org/2011/08/16/139656641/cell-service-shutdown-raises-free-speech-questions|title = Cell Service Shutdown Raises Free Speech Questions|last = Johnson|first = Carrie|publisher = National Public Radio|date = August 16, 2011|accessdate = February 25, 2018}}</ref><ref name=indybay/> || Downtown San Francisco stations (Embarcadero, Montgomery, Powell Street, Civic Center)
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| 2011 || November 18 || Train cars || In response to reports about the unsanitary nature of the cushioning used on BART train seats and the difficulty of cleaning carpeted floors, BART embarks on a project to replace the seats with vinyl seats as well as remove carpeting from the floors.<ref name=bart-vinyl-seats/>
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| 2011 || || Report || The 2011 Ambient Air Test Report is published. This is the first of two Ambient Air Test Reports available on the BART website, and shows that BART meets the thresholds for asbestos and respiratory dust set by the California Occupational Safety and Health Adminisrtation (Cal/OSHA).<ref name=bart-reports/><ref name=bart-ambient-air-quality>{{cite web|url = https://www.bart.gov/sites/default/files/docs/b-10269%20bart%20ambient.pdf|title = 2011 Ambient Air Test Report|accessdate = June 21, 2017}}</ref> ||
| 2014 || December 30 || Connectivity (Internet) || BART cancels its contract with WiFi Rail Inc., the provider who had a 20-year contract starting 2009 to deliver wi-fi across the BART system. BART blames WiFi Rail Inc.'s slow progress and poor connectivity even in the areas where it has launched, while WiFi Rail Inc. says that it was hammered by lack of approval from BART to make the neded improvements and expansions. A lawsuit by WiFi Rail Inc. is still pending as of 2018.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/BART-cuts-Wi-Fi-service-prompting-threats-of-5984611.php|title = BART scraps Wi-Fi contract, prompting threats of legal action|last = Williams|first = Kale|date = December 30, 2014|accessdate = April 27, 2018|publisher = SFGate}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.techtimes.com/articles/23761/20141230/bart-ends-contract-with-wifi-rail-sorry-san-francisco-oakland-commuters-no-more-free-internet.htm|title = BART Ends Contract with WiFi Rail. Sorry, San Francisco and Oakland Commuters: No More Free Internet|date = December 30, 2014|accessdate = April 27, 2018|publisher = Tech Times|last = Mendoza|first = Menchie}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.mercurynews.com/2016/03/29/bart-wifi-provider-sues-agency-claiming-breach-of-contract/|title = BART WiFi provider sues agency claiming breach of contract|publisher = The Mercury News|date = March 29, 2016|accessdate = April 27, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/At-long-last-Wi-Fi-coming-to-BART-Caltrain-12741770.php|title = At long last, Wi-Fi coming to BART, Caltrain — in 3 to 4 years|last = Cabanatuan|first = Michael|date = March 9, 2018|accesdate = April 27, 2018|publisher = SFGate}}</ref>
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| 2015 || January 2 || Data Train cars || BART conducts a Station Profile Studycompletes the transition to the new vinyl seats, begun in 2011 in response to understand complaints about the profile of riders at each of its stations. This updates data previously collected in 2008unsanitary cushioned seats and the extra cleaning costs.<ref name>{{cite web|url =http://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2015/news20150102|title = New seats now in all trains|date = January 2, 2015|accessdate = June 27, 2018|publisher = Bay Area Rapid Transit}}</ref>|-| 2015|| August and September || Track maintenance and noise levels || Over the weekends of August 1-2 and Labor Day Weekend (September 5-sps7), BART does some major track maintenance in the Transbay Tube, replacing, straightening, and flattening large sections of track, cleaning rail insulators, and replacing interlocking ties. After the first of the two track maintenances, Based on social media posts by users, BART reports that riders are experiencing lower noise levels in the Transbay Tube.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.bart.gov/aboutnews/articles/reports2015/profilenews20150813|title = Station Profile StudyRiders notice a quieter ride following first of two tube shutdowns|date = August 13, 2015|accessdate = June 27, 2018|publisher = [[w:Bay Area Rapid Transit}}</ref> || Transbay Tube|-|Bay Area Rapid Transit]]2015 || August 10 || Train cars || BART completes the removal of carpets from floors in all its train cars. The project was initiated in 2011 in response to concerns about unsanitary conditions as well as the extra cleaning costs.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2015/news20150810-0|title = BART carpet: Like wool seats, another relic gone for good|date = August 10, 2015|accessdate = June 1827, 20172018|publisher = Bay Area Rapid Transit}}</ref> ||The A, B, and C2 cars now feature vinyl flooring in either grey or blue coloring, while the C1 cars feature a spray-on composite flooring.
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| 2015 || September 14 || Service frequency || BART makes some enhancements to its service frequencies, including running the Richmond line an extra hour in the evening, and adding extra trains for the morning and evening rush hour.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2015/news20150910|title = BART schedule change aims to provide some crowding relief|date = September 14, 2015|accessdate = July 5, 2017|publisher = BART}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.dailycal.org/2015/09/14/bart-institutes-changes-combat-overcrowding/|title = BART responds to overcrowding by increasing number of train cars, hours of operation|date = September 14, 2015|accessdate = July 5, 2017|publisher = ''The Daily Californian''}}</ref> ||
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| 2015 || || Data || BART conducts a Station Profile Study, to understand the profile of riders at each of its stations. This updates data previously collected in 2008.<ref name=bart-2015-sps>{{cite web|url = https://www.bart.gov/about/reports/profile|title = Station Profile Study|publisher = [[w:Bay Area Rapid Transit|Bay Area Rapid Transit]]|accessdate = June 18, 2017}}</ref> ||
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| 2016 || January 9 || Violence || A homicide occurs at West Oakland station.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2016/news20160309|title = BART Police release video of West Oakland shooting suspect|date = March 9, 2016|accessdate = October 23, 2017|publisher = Bay Area Rapid Transit}}</ref> The case would reveal that many cameras on train cars are decoys.<ref name=chronicle-decoy/> The case goes unsolved for a long time.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/01/08/one-year-later-still-no-leads-in-fatal-shooting-on-bart-train-near-west-oakland-station/|title = BART: A year later, still no leads in fatal shooting on train in Oakland|last = Baldassari|first = Erin|date = January 8, 2017|accessdate = October 23, 2017|publisher = ''Mercury News''}}</ref> || West Oakland
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