BART closes Glen Park and Balboa Park to trains this weekend
BART runs no trains between 24th St. Mission and Daly City on Nov. 14 and 15. The bus bridges, the trains that still run, the parking lots that close, and what the stations mean for nearby home prices.
AI-generated overcast view of the Glen Park BART station entrance in San Francisco with a city bus at the curb Photo: Houseberry
This Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 14 and 15, no BART trains will run between 24th Street Mission and Daly City. Glen Park and Balboa Park stations close to trains for the whole weekend, and buses fill the gap. BART says to plan on up to 30 extra minutes for any trip that crosses it.
The crews are installing equipment for BART's new train control system, which the agency says will let it run 30 trains an hour through the Transbay Tube instead of 24. That is a real gain for every East Bay commute. This weekend it is a detour for the southern half of San Francisco and everyone riding in from San Mateo County.
The station neighborhoods feel it first. Glen Park, where the typical home cost $2.11 million in September 2026 according to Houseberry, is a place people pay extra to live partly for that station. Its safety score is 4.2 out of 5.
How to make your trip
| Your trip | What to do |
|---|---|
| Glen Park or Balboa Park to downtown | Take the Muni bus to 24th St. Mission, then any train north |
| Daly City or the Peninsula to downtown | Take the SamTrans express to 24th St. Mission, or ride Yellow Line trains from Millbrae to Daly City first |
| East Bay to San Francisco | Ride to downtown as usual. From the south Fremont and San Jose lines, take Orange and switch to Blue at Bay Fair |
| Downtown to SFO or Millbrae | Train to 24th St. Mission, bus to Daly City, then the Yellow Line shuttle train |
| Biking | Every SamTrans and Muni bridge bus has a front bike rack |
Train times may shift up to three minutes from the normal schedule, and most lines run every 20 minutes. To replace the canceled first Green Line train, BART is adding an Orange Line train out of Berryessa at 5:40 a.m. Saturday and 7:40 a.m. Sunday.
If you drive to Daly City station, check the lots first. The St. Charles Avenue surface lot closes Friday at 8 p.m. and reopens by 4 a.m. Monday. The lot at John Daly Boulevard and De Long Street is closed all day both days.
The detour is worth it
Weekend shutdowns are annoying, and this one splits the city's southern half off from its own subway. We would still take this trade every time. BART runs at 24 trains an hour through the Transbay Tube now, and the new train control system is the cheapest way it gets to 30. Doing the work two days at a time, on weekends, keeps the weekday commute intact.
What riders can fairly ask for is notice and good buses. BART posted this one in advance and put a direct express on the route most people need.
What the station is worth on a normal weekend
The three stations south of 24th Street serve some of the most affordable homes in San Francisco, and this weekend closes the cheapest way out of them.
One stop makes a big difference. Mission Terrace, the neighborhood next to Balboa Park station, had a typical price of $1.36 million in Houseberry's September 2026 data. Glen Park, one stop north, was $2.11 million. The Outer Mission was $1.29 million. Glen Park has the village shopping street and Glen Canyon, and that explains part of the gap. The rest is that the Balboa Park side sits by the freeway and the station yards.
Cross the county line and the price drops again. Houseberry put the typical Daly City home at $1.13 million in September 2026, about 54 percent of San Francisco's citywide figure. Its top-ranked neighborhood, Crocker, was about $936,000.
For a household that rides BART to work every day, those stations are what make the lower price workable. A weekend like this one is the rare time the trade-off shows.
When service comes back
BART's notice covers Saturday and Sunday only, and the Daly City lots reopen by 4 a.m. Monday, Nov. 16, so trains should be back for the Monday commute. BART has not posted the next closure on this stretch. It lists upcoming work on its advisories page, and the train control project has more weekends ahead.
If the station matters to where you live, compare the neighborhoods on both sides of the county line on Houseberry's San Francisco rankings and the Daly City rankings.
Sources
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