BART Real-Time Transit MCP Server

by srivastsh Your server? Claim it

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BART Real-Time Transit is answering right now. Last checked 13 min ago. It exposes 7 tools. Last commit 1 Jun 2026.

Real-time BART departures, trip planning, fares, stations, and advisories.

Uptime history 51 days of history · worst day 95%

51 days agonow

96.7%

Uptime 24h

88 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

155 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 1 Jun 2026

BART Real-Time Transit does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 98.4% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 13 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add bart-mcp --transport http https://bart-mcp.srivastsh.workers.dev/mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bart-mcp": {
      "url": "https://bart-mcp.srivastsh.workers.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.bart-mcp]
url = "https://bart-mcp.srivastsh.workers.dev/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bart-mcp": {
      "url": "https://bart-mcp.srivastsh.workers.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bart-mcp": {
      "url": "https://bart-mcp.srivastsh.workers.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 7

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

bart

bart_advisories

Get current BART service advisories, delays, and elevator/escalator status.

bart_departures

Get real-time departures from a BART station. Args: - station: 4-letter abbreviation (e.g. EMBR, 24TH) - direction: Optional 'n' or 's'

bart_fare

Get fare between two BART stations.

bart_station_lookup

Search BART stations by name, city, address, or 4-letter station code.

bart_stations

List all BART stations with abbreviation codes and locations. Use this to look up station codes needed by other tools.

bart_status_summary

Summarize current BART service status from advisories and real-time alert data.

bart_trip

Plan a trip between two BART stations. Returns schedule, fares, and transfer info.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://bart-mcp.srivastsh.workers.dev/mcp	streamable-http	answering	142 ms	13 min ago

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BART Real-Time Transit — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can BART Real-Time Transit do?

It exposes 7 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: bart_advisories, bart_departures, bart_fare, bart_station_lookup, bart_stations, bart_status_summary and 1 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is BART Real-Time Transit working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 88 of 91 checks got a reply (96.7%), average response time 155 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect BART Real-Time Transit?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does BART Real-Time Transit need an API key?

No. BART Real-Time Transit completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 7 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is BART Real-Time Transit?

It answers our handshake in 155 ms on average, which is faster than 77% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.

Is BART Real-Time Transit open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in TypeScript and 1 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.