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BART announced Wednesday it will provide longer trains to accommodate large crowds expected to attend major weekend events in the Bay Area, including the Bay Bridge Series between the Oakland A's and the San Francisco Giants, and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Pride Parade and Celebration.

For baseball fans, longer trains and additional trains will be provided for games on both Saturday and Sunday being played at McAfee Coliseum in Oakland. Those attending the games can walk to the stadium from the Coliseum/Oakland Airport BART station.

Though trains will operate on a normal Sunday schedule June 29, additional trains will be provided before and after the Pride Parade and Celebration in San Francisco to help handle the large crowds who attend that annual event. The parade will begin at 10:30 a.m. at the corner of Market and Beale streets and at Eighth and Hyde streets. An attendant celebration from noon to 7 p.m. will be staged at San Francisco Civic Center.

BARTMobile, a miniature version of a BART train, will "march" in the parade for the fifth consecutive year.

"Both festivities are literally steps away from BART stations," BART Board President Gail Murray said in a statement creditscore. "You can access the parade from any of our

downtown San Francisco stations and the celebration is one short block from our Civic Center Station."

To help ease lines at ticket machines, BART personnel will sell flash passes and tickets at tables set up periodically on Sunday at the Coliseum/Oakland Airport station, Dublin/Pleasanton station and Civic Center station in San Francisco. BART officials suggest that riders buy round-trip tickets to also avoid lines on the way home.

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