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Uploaded: Thursday, September 20, 2012, 7:07 AM
Updated: Friday, September 21, 2012, 6:37 AM
Enjoy free ice cream, bundt cakes as BART celebrates 40th anniversary
Transit system launches give-away of 40,000 free rides for Bay Area students starting today
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 | This month marks 40 years of BART service and the transit system is ready to celebrate with ice cream giveaways, free field trip tickets for
school children and plenty of vintage BART photos to reminisce.
At a news conference held Wednesday afternoon at the Lake Merritt BART station, which served as the original BART headquarters in Oakland back in 1972, top BART officials including Board President John McPartland announced upcoming events and programs marking four decades of service.
BART Wednesday launched a program giving away 40,000 free rides for Bay Area students on school field trips.
Teachers can sign up online for the free trips on a first come, first served basis, McPartland said.
McPartland said this program is "pivotal on impressing on our younger riders on how important public transportation can be."
Free ice cream from corporate sponsor Dreyer's and bundt cakes from Nothing Bundt Cakes of Emeryville will be up for grabs at stations throughout the Bay Area starting on Sept. 29 at San Francisco's Powell and Oakland's Rockridge stations from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Ice cream giveaways will also be held on Oct. 13 and Oct. 27 at four other stations.
Although this is BART's 40th anniversary, McPartland emphasized this year is also about honoring the riders who have made BART a successful transit system that has been serving as many as 400,000 riders a day in recent weeks, according to BART officials.
With this sentiment in mind, BART will be giving out 1,000 $40 BART tickets this Friday and Saturday to riders sporting a BART anniversary
ticket that can be picked up at any BART station. A "BART 40th Anniversary Squad" will give out tickets to those at stations with the stickers
prominently placed.— Bay City News Service Are you receiving Express, our free daily e-mail edition? See a sample and sign-up for Express.
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Posted by Don, a resident of the Ironwood neighborhood, on Sep 20, 2012 at 10:09 am I remember well the test tracks being built and running a test train between Concord and Pleasant Hill. Our family business was located there and we watching the operation unfold in front of us daily. A model train was set up that you could tour and it looked like something out of a movie. Who would have ever thought 40 years later, it is nothing to see these trains all over the bay area. I am glad I am still around to see it grow.
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Posted by Daniel Bradford, a member of the Foothill High School community, on Sep 21, 2012 at 2:50 am "Free ice cream from corporate sponsor Dreyer's and bundt cakes from Nothing Bundt Cakes of Emeryville will be up for grabs at stations throughout the Bay Area starting on Sept. 29 at San Francisco's Powell and Oakland's Rockridge stations from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Ice cream giveaways will also be held on Oct. 13 and Oct. 27 at four other stations."
BART has signs posted in all stations cautioning people that they can be cited for eating or drinking in the station or on the trains. And so BART gives away free food...
Well done!
It's a rule honored more in the breach than the observance, anyway.
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