Albany BART Tracks Sprout Yellow Fence

Are you wondering why a stretch of the elevated BART tracks in Albany has a yellow fence stuck to one side?

We were, so we asked BART why there's a hard-to-miss yellowbarrier high overhead on part of the BART tracks. When Patch looked on Friday, the fence was just on one side (the east side) of the elevated tracks, extending for about half a block north from Dartmouth Street and another half a block south of Dartmouth.

"The yellow fence is a temporary one our maintenance crews install when there is track worked scheduled in the area," BART spokeswoman Luna Salaver replied via email. "It will be taken down once the work is completed."

She said the fence and track work are not part of the seismic retrofit project that has kept segments of the BART path, or Ohlone Greenway, below the tracks closed for months. The Ohlong Greenway stretch under the fence reopened in October, Salaver said.

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