BART's system maps will have a new look when midnight service returns next week, with a whole lot of love for the Town.
An "Oakland" label is included on the maps for the first time.
Previous maps included markers for "San Francisco," "San Jose," the "Peninsula" and "East Bay."
"We added Oakland to the map because we can and because our heart belongs in Oakland," the agency said in a release on Monday.
The new maps also no longer include the purple line, which previously ran as a shuttle between San Francisco International Airport and the Millbrae station.
The red and yellow lines will end at SFO on weekdays in place of the purple line beginning Aug. 2, with eight trains running to the airport during peak hours.
Aug. 2, of course, is the same day BART will resume midnight service, running trains until then on Mondays through Saturdays about a month earlier than the agency initially expected.
Five lines will run for all but a few hours on those days, with trains running every 15 minutes between 5 a.m. and 8 p.m on Monday through Friday. Trains will run every 30 minutes between 8 p.m. and midnight on Mondays through Saturdays, with five lines on weekdays and three lines on Saturdays.
BART ridership continues to be well below projected levels from prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, but it is slowly inching up.
On July 20, BART had more total riders (88,917) than any other day since last March. That represented 21% of what the agency would anticipate on a typical July weekday. BART’s highest percentage of expected riders occurred on July 4, reaching 39% of pre-COVID-19 projections on the holiday.
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