Try BART Week begins today! | 511 Contra Costa

Try BART Week begins today!


Are you ready to get your BART on? Today marks the kickoff date for Try BART Week, which will run Monday, October 18 through Friday, October 22.
Also today is a kickoff event from noon to 1 PM at the 12th St. Oakland City Center station. According to BART, 5,000 Green & Black’s chocolate bars will be given away, as well as $100 BART tickets, a pair of CAL vs Stanford football tickets, and one grand prize winner will walk away with BART tickets for an entire year (a $2500 value).
To enter this week:
Every day, watch the platform destination signs for the Try BART Week word of the day and text your response to 44144, or enter the contest online. Every day, check the prizes page for a list of Try BART Week winners. Here is the full list of prizes that will be given away this week:

Monday 10/18Sponsored by: Green & Black’s

  • $ 500 worth of Green & Black’s Organic Chocolate
  • Pair of Roundtrip Tickets, SouthWest Airlines
  • Pair of tickets to the Raiders VS. Indianapolis Colts Sun, 12/26 at 1:05 PM (1 winner)
  • Pair of tickets to the Charles Schwab Cup Championship At Harding Park, SF. Nov.4?7 (4 winners)

Tuesday 10/19Sponsored by: Ben & Jerry’s

  • $500 BART Ticket (1 winner) $100 BART Ticket (10 winners)
  • Catered Ice Cream Sundae Party for 50 from Ben & Jerry’s (5 winners)
  • Ice Cream Cake from Ben & Jerry’s for a year (12 cakes total) (5 winners)
  • $5 Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Gift Cards (1000 winners)
  • Pair of Roundtrip Tickets, SouthWest Airlines
  • Pair of tickets to the Cal vs. Stanford football game Sat, 11/20 (1 winner)
  • Pair of tickets to the Oakland Raiders VS. Seattle Seahawks Sun, 10/31 at 1:15 PM (1 winner)
  • $ 200 worth of Green & Black’s Organic Chocolate
  • Pair of tickets to the Charles Schwab Cup Championship At Harding Park, SF. Nov.4?7 (4 winners)

Wednesday 10/20Sponsored by: Jamba Juice

  • $500 BART Ticket (2 winners) $100 BART Ticket (10 winners)
  • $500 Jamba Juice Gift Card (6 winners)
  • $100 Jamba Juice Gift Card (50 winners)
  • $20 Jamba Juice Gift Card (100 winners)
  • Pair of Roundtrip Tickets, SouthWest Airlines
  • Pair of tickets to the Cal vs. Washington football game on Saturday, 11/27 (1 winner)
  • Pair of tickets to the Oakland Raiders VS. Miami Dolphins
  • Sun, 11/28 at 1:05 PM (1 winner)
  • $ 200 worth of Green & Black’s Organic Chocolate (1 winner)
  • Pair of tickets to the Charles Schwab Cup Championship at Harding Park, SF. Nov. 4?7 (4 winners)

Thursday 10/21Sponsored by: Alter Eco

  • $500 BART Ticket (3 winners) $100 BART Ticket (10 winners)
  • Alter Eco “CSA Special” Quarterly delivery of a sampling of entire Alter Eco product line (3 winners)
  • Alter Eco “Grains and Chocolate” Quarterly delivery of colored heirloom quinoas and jasmine rice grains with a sampling of Alter Eco chocolate bars (5 winners)
  • Alter Eco “Year of Chocolate” One bar each week for a year (15 winners)
  • Alter Eco “Deluxe Foodie Basket” One?time shipment of one each of the entire Alter Eco product line. (15 winners)
  • Pair of Roundtrip Tickets, SouthWest Airlines
  • Pair of tickets to the Charles Schwab Cup Championship At Harding Park, SF. Nov.4?7 (4 winners)

Friday 10/22Sponsored by: myBART Partners

  • BART Tickets for a year! ($2,500 value) (1 winner)
  • $100 BART Ticket (10 winners)
  • Pair of Roundtrip Tickets, SouthWest Airlines
  • $200 worth of Green & Black’s Organic Chocolate (1 winner)
  • ACT: Pairs of tickets to see A Christmas Carol, good for any night during the run of the show (excluding opening night) (2 winners)
  • Adventure Cat Sailing: pairs of tickets for Bay Cruise, good through Nov 2011 (3 winners)
  • Pairs of tickets to Massive Attack and Thievery Corporation at the Greek Theater (Berkeley) on 11/6 (3 winners)
  • Asian Art Museum: pairs of tickets to the museum, and MATCHA (10 winners)
  • Berkeley Playhouse: Pairs of tickets to Cinderella Enchanted, playing November 6 ? December 5 at the Julia Morgan Center for the Arts in Berkley (10 winners)
  • Berkeley Repertory Theatre: Pair of tickets to any subscription season show (4 winners)
  • Autographed CAL Football (1 winner)
  • Cal Polo Shirt (1 winner)
  • Pair of tickets to the Cal vs. Oregon football game Sat, 11/13 (1 winner)
  • Castro Theatre: pairs of tickets, good for movie of choice through June 2011 (5 winners)
  • Chronicle Books prize packs containing 3 books (5 winners)
  • Earplay: Pairs of subscriptions for Earplay’s 26th concert season (5 winners)
  • Oakland A’s Jersey (1 winner)
  • Oakland A’s Baseball cap (1 winner)
  • Andrew Bailey Autographed Baseball (1 winner)
  • Oakland A’s sweatshirt prize pack (6 winners)
  • Oakland Museum of California: Pairs of general admission tickets to the Museum (5 winners)
  • Shrek the Musical at the Orpheum on 12/2 Pair of tickets. (2 winners)
  • West Side Story at the Orpheum on 10/28. Pair of tickets. (2 winners)
  • Pair of tickets to the Oakland Raiders vs Denver Broncos Sun, 12/19 at 1:15 PM PST (1 winner)
  • Pair of tickets to the Charles Schwab Cup Championship At Harding Park, SF. Nov.4?7 (4 winners)