BART

BART unveiled a 15-step plan Wednesday to renew passenger confidence in the safety of riding public transit amid the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.

The long-awaited openings of two new BART stations was announced on Tuesday. Service to Milpitas and Berryessa stations begins Saturday, June 13. 

Contra Costa bus 311 is providing service from the station to the Pleasant Hill station, officials said.

The passenger loading and unloading zone on the east side of the station will be permanently moved to a location on the first floor of the parking garage, while shuttle bus stops are moving to Rollins Road.

San Francisco leaders are preparing to reopen as many as 95% of the city's retail businesses for curbside pickup and delivery. That means that mass transit is ramping up and preparing to get people moving.

The man was reported on the tracks about 10 a.m. and the station was closed and trains stopped while police investigated.

Some lanes of Highway 24 in Orinda are also closing overnight, due to the BART track replacement project near the Orinda station.

BART expects to begin the project May 9 and 10 and continue work on weekends through July 4 and 5.

Bay Fair BART Station remains closed after a person on the trackway was struck by a train Tuesday morning, officials said.

Starting Wednesday, the Bay Area’s largest transit operator is enforcing mandatory masks inside stations and on board trains. BART said its following county health orders from Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco, and San Mateo counties that require masks in public.

This week, just under 25,000 people rode BART; the normal daily average should be about 400,000.

In response to the coronavirus pandemic and the statewide stay-at-home order that severely restricts the amount of people going to work, BART announced Monday that it will make deep cuts to its service until further notice.

A $2 trillion federal novel coronavirus stimulus package will include $25 billion in relief funding for public transit agencies across the country, an allocation BART General Manager Bob Powers called "critical lifeline funds" Wednesday. 

BART officials said ridership after 9 p.m. currently represents only 3 percent of the total amount each day, and the agency decided closing early was a better option than running shorter or less frequent trains.

BART will continue regular service during a shelter-in-place order across the Bay Area to mitigate the spread of novel coronavirus, the transit agency announced Monday.

BART ridership continues to plummet amid concerns about COVID-19, the transit agency said Saturday.