BART will offer extended service and AC Transit will offer free rides on New Year’s Eve.
Riders on AC Transit will ride buses free of charge, including on the Transbay and Tempo lines, beginning at 8 p.m. on Dec. 31 until 5 a.m. on Jan. 1.
All AC Transit local and Transbay lines will operate on Sunday schedules on Jan. 1.
BART will run special extended service on New Year’s Eve until 1 a.m. Then on Jan. 1, BART will run a Sunday schedule from 8 a.m. to midnight.
BART extended service for New Year’s Eve is as follows:
- Three-line special service: Orange provides Richmond-Beryessa service, Blue runs Bay Fair-Dublin/Pleasanton only, and Yellow provides transbay Millbrae-Antioch service. Yellow, Blue and Orange only in both directions, for total of six trains for 1am extended service. Yellow Line will be the only line running in San Francisco and Peninsula. Blue Line will run between Bay Fair and Dublin/Pleasanton.
- Trains will be waiting at MacArthur and Bay Fair to complete timed transfers.
- Yellow Line and Orange Line trains in all directions will be timed to meet at MacArthur Station at 1:47am in a “grand meet.” This is the transfer point for riders coming from San Francisco heading toward Richmond or Berryessa or riders coming from the East Bay heading toward San Francisco.
- Orange Line and Blue Line trains will be timed to meet at Bay Fair Station at 2:16am. Dublin-bound riders can take the Berryessa-bound Orange Line train and transfer at Bay Fair Station.
- SFO and OAK airport stations will NOT be served.
- Last East Bay-bound train running through downtown San Francisco will be at around 1:30am.
- The regular last trains of the evening (Yellow, Blue, and Orange lines) will be dispatched from the end of their lines at midnight and then at 1:00am. Another set of last trains of the evening will serve 48 out of our 50 stations. The 1am trains will not serve SFO and OAK airport stations.
- BART’s Trip Planner has been updated to include the extended service trains.
