September 14: BART is hosting a paper ticket fashion show to say goodbye to the old tickets and celebrate Transit Month

BART is hitting the runway this upcoming Transit Month to give a final send-off to our retired paper tickets that were a portal to our system for more than a 1 billion trips in the decades since BART's inception.

We gave fashion design students from four local schools thousands of old paper tickets with one condition: transform them into high fashion.

The students from Academy of Art University, Oakland School for the Arts, City College of San Francisco, and San Francisco State University will strut their stuff and share their unique designs for a full-blown fashion show, "Project Doneway: A Farewell to BART Paper Tickets," in the parking lot at Rockridge Stationon Saturday, September 14,th from 1pm to 3pm.

"We gave our legacy cars a proper send off when they were retired and our paper tickets deserve the same treatment," said Chief Communications Officer Alicia Trost, who came up with the idea as another way to engage youth and young adults in the Bay Area and to activate BART stations through art. "Our paper ticket designs have long shown up in artistic Bay Area cultural references. This event was inspired by a dress made out of BART's iconic blue paper tickets by Sean Porter nearly ten years ago, and I wanted to offer students who rely on BART to get around the opportunity to showcase their talents."