![]() By showing how much faster it is to take a scooter to and from BART compared to walking or driving in traffic, more people may opt for BART to get where they need to go. Pairing e-scooters and BART expands the geographic area that BART riders can quickly and easily reach. Integrating e-scooters into the customer experience is BART’s latest effort to make taking transit easier and to increase ridership during pandemic recovery. ![]() Trip planner results on BART’s website and app now show real time availability of Spin scooters in San Francisco, LINK by Superpedestrian scooters in Oakland and HOPR scooters in Fremont. At least you would get a confirmation and often a live response back from a person when reporting via BART Watch app, so I’m not sure if my reports are going through.Īll in all, it’s a good initiative but BARTOfficial is mostly not usable compared to other more reliable apps at this time for the different features.The Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) aims to make it easier to take car-free trips by adding shared electric scooters (e-scooters) to BART’s multi-modal trip planner. Hazards reporting is the worst, I have received no confirmation or replies each time I’ve reporting incidents from finding people taking residence in elevators to exposed injectable needles lying on seats. It also only provides ETA down to minutes while other apps like BARTPro provide updates down to seconds and are also hooked to the BART API for accuracy.Īdvisory and outages are okay, it’s about 80% accurate for reporting escalator outages, but not perfect. ![]() ![]() The scheduler and live ETA don’t work well after midnight but BART has trains up to an hour past midnight, so it is rough there. It’s a good initiative but it experiences issues on all of those attempts. BARTOfficial appears to be an attempt at merging several different apps that address different issues: Schedule, Live ETA of train arrivals, hazards reporting, and advisories/outages. ![]()
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