BART Adds Extra Service for Peace Rally; BART Urges Buying Your Round Trip Tickets in Advance of the 16th.

News Editors

OAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 10, 2003

This Sunday (February 16), in addition to its regular Sunday service, BART will provide extra trains and longer trains in anticipation of the large number of participants planning to attend the peace rally and anti-war march at Justin Herman Plaza in San Francisco. The opening rally begins at 11 a.m. at Justin Herman Plaza followed by an anti-war march, which begins at 1 p.m., from Embarcadero to Civic Center where another rally will be held.

BART personnel will be selling round-trip flash passes from tables at the Dublin/Pleasanton, El Cerrito del Norte, North Berkeley, Rockridge and Colma Stations. BART urges those going to the rally to purchase round trip tickets to avoid the long lines at the ticket machines.

Additionally, at twelve stations, BART customers may purchase a round-trip ticket from the ticket vending machines, take the ticket to a designated BART staff person at that station and have it converted to a flash pass. The stations are MacArthur, El Cerrito Plaza, West Oakland, Berkeley, 24th Street, Glen Park, Daly City, Fruitvale, Fremont, Bay Fair Castro Valley and Lake Merritt. Round-trip flash passes will be available from the "Food and Liquor -- Y&S Check Cashing" store across the street from the West Oakland BART Station and the Customer Service Center located at the Lake Merritt BART Station in Oakland.

Each rider must have his/her own ticket/flash pass.

To prevent overloading on the escalators and elevators at the Embarcadero BART Station, some trains may disembark their passengers at the Montgomery BART Station.

For bicyclists traveling to San Francisco from the East Bay, bikes will not be allowed on BART from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Bikes will be allowed on the Richmond-Fremont line. Bicyclists are reminded that bikes are not allowed on crowded BART cars at any time, and that bikes are not permitted in the first car of the train.

For additional fare and travel information, call 510/465-BART, 817-1717 from any area code, or the toll-free number listed in local telephone directories.