BART to Operate Longer Trains for Blues & Art on the Bay.OAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 2, 1998--This weekend (Sept. 5 and 6) and Monday, Sept. 7 (Labor Day Labor Day, holiday celebrated in the United States and Canada on the first Monday in September to honor the laborer. It was inaugurated by the Knights of Labor in 1882 and made a national holiday by the U.S. Congress in 1894. Holiday), BART will provide longer trains in anticipation of the crowds expected to attend the first annual Blues & Art Festival and the Central Labor Council's annual Labor Day picnic on Treasure Island Treasure Island search for buried treasure ignited by discovery of ancient map. [Br. Lit.: Treasure Island] See : Treasure in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden . For those planning to attend the festival, AC Transit AC Transit (in full, Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District) is a regional bus agency serving parts of Alameda County and Contra Costa County in the western coastal area of the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area. will provide continuous shuttle bus service each day from the MacArthur BART Station on 40th Street, between Martin Luther King Street and Telegraph Avenue Telegraph Avenue is a street that begins, at its southernmost point, in the midst of the historic downtown district of Oakland, California and ends, at its northernmost point, at the southern edge of the University of California, Berkeley campus in Berkeley, California. in Oakland and the Transbay Terminal in San Francisco beginning 9:45 a.m. Round trip fare is $7 for adults, and $4 for children 12 and under. From San Francisco, the public is encouraged to take either BART or Muni Metro to the Embarcadero Station and walk south on Fremont Street to the Transbay Terminal. Ferry service will be provided every half-hour beginning at 9:30 a.m. from Jack London Square Jack London Square is a popular tourist attraction on the waterfront of Oakland, California. Named after the author Jack London and owned by the Port of Oakland, it is the home of stores, hotels, an Amtrak station, a ferry dock, the historic Heinold's First and Last Chance Saloon, (Clay Street) in Oakland and the Ferry Building in San Francisco. The round trip fare is $10 for adults and and $5 for children 12 and under and $5 for seniors. For additional information call the Blues Festival hotline at 415/554-6242; AC Transit at 510/839-2931; or the TravInfo line (toll free in the Bay Area) at 817-1717. For BART train and fare information, call 510/465-BART or the toll-free number listed in local telephone directories. Labor Day Service On Monday, Sept. 7, in observance of the Labor Day Holiday, BART will be operating on a regular Sunday schedule with longer trains to accommodate festival-goers. Trains will operate at 20-minute intervals on three lines -- Richmond/Fremont, Pittsburgh/Bay Point-Colma and Dublin/Pleasanton-Daly City beginning at 8 a.m. BART's Administration Offices will be closed.
CONTACT: BART
Mike Healy, 510/464-7110
Vicki L. Wills, 510/464-7115
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