Millbrae, BART back to the drawing board
Heather Murtagh - 10/27/2010
A hotel near the Millbrae BART station seems unlikely, according to a joint feasibility study of the area, but city officials welcomed alternative development ideas expressing optimism in what it could add to the growing transportation-focused site.

Madness at Millbrae BART
Guy Span - 11/17/2009
Setting the Way-back machine to 1995, we find the San Mateo County Civil Grand Jury's analysis describing BART to the airport. They concluded (as did a Santa Clara County Grand Jury nine years later) that BART was an extremely expensive alternative with little benefit to the county and would consume valuable transit dollars. Worse they cited SamTrans "nebulous" funding plans and reliance on ridership figures.

Madness at Millbrae: BART's plan
Guy Span - 11/15/2009
The original BART to the San Francisco Airport (SFO) concocted in 1991 planned to have a joint BART/CalTrain station at San Bruno. At this multi-modal station, one could change between BART, CalTrain and the Airport light rail system now called AirTrain. BART changed this to a new multi-modal station at Millbrae, where BART would run a special connector from Millbrae (and collect fees), divert passengers from CalTrain into San Francisco and generally make a lot of money.

A fourth delay given for developer
Mike Rosenberg - 01/23/2008
Millbrae again extended the deadline for a developer to acquire land for a $310 million project near the city's BART/Caltrain station after the company said changing plans required more time.

Millbrae Track Problem Delays BART Trains
Staff - 12/18/2007
Trackside problems outside Bay Area Rapid Transit's Millbrae station delayed two BART train lines Tuesday morning, according to a spokeswoman.

BART development progress slow
Heather Murtagh - 09/13/2007
Dreams of commuters strolling freely from the BART train to a restaurant, movie theater or even an apartment in Millbrae without stepping foot in a car aren't becoming a reality as soon as city officials would have hoped.

BART competing with Caltrain
Dana Yates - 07/07/2007
BART is cutting service from Millbrae to SFO in an attempt to improve travel times and compete with Caltrain for Peninsula commuters, a spokesman said Friday.

BART to halt Millbrae-SFO direct service
Beth Winegarner - 06/27/2007
Bay Area Rapid Transit is discontinuing direct service between its Millbrae and San Francisco International Airport stations even as it launches more trains on the Peninsula.

BART hopes to lure off-peak riders
Edward Carpenter - 05/30/2007
Leonard Flaherty is just the type of rider BART hopes to woo with a new proposal to reduce the wait time between trains on evenings and weekends to 15 minutes or less.

Cameras watch troubled intersection
Staff - 09/18/2006
A busy intersection in Millbrae is now being guarded by red light cameras.

Hazmat busy near Millbrae BART
Staff - 06/16/2006
Hazardous materials personnel from South County Fire Authority determined through testing that a 55 gallon drum located near the Millbrae BART station contained paint products and solvents, according to fire Battalion Chief Richard Price.

Cameras coming to Millbrae BART
Staff - 06/14/2006
Five red light cameras will be installed near the BART station where Millbrae Avenue, Rollins Road and southbound U.S. Highway 101 meet.

Software glitch delays BART
Matthew Artz - 11/15/2005
Peninsula BART commuters endured delays Tuesday morning due to a nagging software problem, and transit agency officials said they had no timetable or cost estimate for a permanent fix.

BART lack of discount tickets irks some
Matthew Artz - 11/01/2005
A disabled Millbrae man is threatening to sue BART because the city's new station, like most throughout the BART system, doesn't sell discounted tickets for seniors, students and the disabled.

Millbrae steps toward 'ideal' future
Heather Murtagh - 10/26/2005
In an ideal world, the area surrounding the Millbrae BART station would have offices, hotels, auto dealers and perhaps even a performing arts center that would both attract people and their wallets to help dig the city out of its dire financial situation.

BART agrees to Peninsula service plan
Sean Holstege - 08/12/2005
The BART Board of Directors begrudgingly agreed Thursday to increase some Peninsula fares by $1 and reduce the number of trains, in the fourth service tweak on the San Francisco airport extension since the line opened two years ago.

Parking tax proposed
Dana Yates - 06/10/2005
People who park their cars in Millbrae before traveling from San Francisco International Airport could soon be paying extra if a proposed tax makes it to November's ballot.

Convention, arts center in works
Stephen Baxter - 06/08/2005
Millbrae Mayor Marc Hershman painted a positive picture of the city's finances and growth potential in an annual State of the City address Thursday morning, and mentioned a possible performing arts and convention center near the Millbrae BART station to help draw more tourism dollars.

Millbrae Train Museum is just the ticket
Janet Somers - 02/04/2005
One recent Saturday afternoon, Bob Gorran was showing a visitor around the new Millbrae Train Museum, located in the old Caltrain depot a few hundred feet south of the BART/Caltrain station. Gorran, 81, wore a 20-year- old orange-and-white Southern Pacific Railroad baseball cap that was held together in the back with silver duct tape. It was his first day as a museum docent, but he had paid his way through UC Berkeley by working on trains. "I know trains," he said. "I know train history; I'm old enough, believe me!"

Power line drops in protected habitat
Dave Murphy - 01/20/2005
A 115,000-volt power line fell in an endangered species habitat between Highway 101 and the Millbrae BART station Wednesday morning, knocking out electricity to 25,000 customers -- nearly half of whom were without power for more than four hours.