Sun-kissed tiles at MacArthur BART station, shot by Ariel Dovas.

A man who climbed the roof of a BART train has caused a huge mess this morning for traffic in the East Bay. At around 5:30 a.m., the unidentified man was seen climbing onto the roof at the MacArthur Station in Oakland. For the next couple of hours, it seems, the man got off the train, ran around, and then hopped back on.

SF Chronicle reports: "Over the course of the next two hours police chased the man as he ran across the BART tracks onto the nearby Interstate 580 freeway before returning to the BART station and climbing on top of a waiting train."

At around 7:15, the man was finally detained. KTVU's Sal Castaneda snapped the above shot of the man atop the train.

Expect residual delays throughout the AM anywhere up to 40 minutes.

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Thee people from the Bay Area, two from Berkeley and one from San Francisco, were named MacArthur fellows last night. The "genius award," one that allows its members to work on their craft full-time, comes with heaps prestige and a whopping $500,000 booty. San Francisco artist Camille Utterback, Berkeley computer nerd Maneesh Agrawala, and Berkeley molecular biologist Lin He were among this year's 24 recipients.

Utterback, as described in her bio, is a "pioneering artist and programmer in the field of interactive installation." She also "develops long term and permanent installations for commercial and museum settings via her company Creative Nerve, Inc." A recent installation, Abundance (at right) is a temporary public installation that was commissioned for San Jose, CA.

Congratulations to all three recipients. Drinks are on you!

And a day before BART Rider Appreciation, no less? Sad.

Yesterday, at around 1:20 p.m. near Apgar Street and Martin Luther King Jr. in Oakland, a 20-year-old man was shot and killed, and an 18-year-old seriously injured, after "being shot on the street near the MacArthur BART station." Police aren't sure why Nathan Taylor or Donte Davis, respectively, were gunned down, but if you know anything, spill it to the police at 510-238-3821.