BART Commuter Alert: Trains Not Stopping At Montgomery

Due to civil disobedience on the platform at the Montgomery Street BART station, BART trains are not stopping at the station this morning, according to BART officials.

Hundreds of protesters gathered below street level at the station around 7 a.m.

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When a train approaching from the East Bay pulled up to the station and did not open it’s doors to let passengers out, protesters began clinking metal spoons against the metal pillars in the station.

A loud clanging sound, resulting from hundreds of people with spoons hitting metal, could be heard across the station beginning around 7:10 a.m. At least one protester has been arrested.

A male protester was detained and dragged off the platform by BART police at about 7:15 a.m. BART and the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency warned riders that the protest could disrupt service.

The protest is planned as part of a weekend-long direct series of action events ending in a March in Oakland on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Protesters have released demands ahead of the demonstrations including for BART to drop all charges against the “Black Friday 14,” a group of 14 activists arrested for chaining themselves to a BART train at the West Oakland Station on Nov. 28.

The protesters are calling for “No Business as Usual” at BART.

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