i would agree. BART should take at trip to japan or china to see how they run their rail system. IN japan in the trains late, you get a ticket that you can give your employer instead of your pay being cut for being late... theres a conductor welcoming riders to the platform,, they have gates that stoppeople from evading fairs.. yes that costs money, but it sounds like bart first needs to go into the red, reduce their prices, and get rdiership up before looking at making a profit, that does mean looking to CA governor to help keep BART afloat. AND EXPAND TO THE SOUTH! jesus christ BUILD asecond tunnel further south and make it a priority thats a way to increase ridership if you can get from San Jose to SF. hell connect to nearby malls, santana row, themeparks as ana dded incentive for riders to use work with local musuems and introduce free musuem and ridership days etc. theres plenty of ways, people just think about money first instead of ridership
I will always be a proponent for getting people out of cars and into public transit. But that does not give BART license to keep screwing up. People want an uneventful commute in safe and clean trains. GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER, BART!
Starts at the local level. Bart is a transit agency not the city of San Francisco or the state of California. Bart can most definitely do better when it comes to it's own management, corruption, fares, and fare evasion, hiring more Bart PD. But homelessness and drug addicts go far beyond Bart. Perhaps stopping them from fare evasion is the best solution, but I digress.
@@TheLIRRFrenchie... I can tell you they are good at wasting taxpayer money. They built an enclosed gate around the elevator at Bay Fair to stop fare evaders from using the elevator without paying. The thing malfunctioned for the first couple of months, and people could just push their way past it. The gate took months to build, probably cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and was completely ineffective. BART management completely stonewalled an independent financial auditor and made her quit. That tells you all you need to know.
@@theWZZA I work with an IT MSP that also worked with BART. The horror stories they had of how unorganized, and the levels off bureaucratic red tape to get anything done were insane. Getting permission from 3-4 people to make a single change to software settings, that kind of stuff.
People are getting robbed and assaulted on BART, and you want them to keep riding because of the environment? Do these people have any grasp on reality?
No. Just a failed ideology. They have been trained not to think for themselves. Typical useful idiots every authoritarian regime relies upon because of their stupidity.
I agree with you. I experienced a car accident and suffered from that. Public transit helped me out. Now I am going to feel forced and stressed out. I cannout afford a $100 lyft ride to get to school. May be more accidents or drivers going speed limit if there are some people still struggling with trauma like me.
There will always be a Transit system, it just won't be BART, these Journalist just want to make it seem all humans are stupid and not capable of re-inventing themselves.............
True, *BART is a necessity* from SF to the South Bay, *but it MUST be clean and safe.* Strong police presence, especially at dangerous stations. Multiple security cameras on every train and station. No homelessness. No loitering. No crime. No illicit drug use. No littering. No defecating. No urinating.
Your comment should be Bart director’s #1 priority then the answers of the interviewee should come last.. we are going in wrong direction… thanks to the progressive ideologies brought to you by democrats and their voters.
@@donlee.4308 We need common sense solutions. *The safety and cleanliness issues of BART are just a symptom of widespread issues that need to be URGENTLY addressed throughout CA.* (1) We need well staffed, well managed, and reliable police departments and visible police presence throughout all our jurisdictions. 💙🖤No more public protests against police. Also, no more illegal police department miscondict (ie SJPD misconduct has been blatant & frequent). (2) Overpower the rampant criminal activity, especially organized crime, with effective law enforcement & prosecution. Criminals are currently overpowering CA law enforcement & the CA legal system. (3) Follow through with the proposed evidence-based solutions for the CA homelessness crisis, such as the CARE Act for court-ordered mental health treatment & drug addiction treatment. (4) *Stop* the intake of asylum seekers & illegal border crossings because our public programs are already drowning & failing. CA & the whole country has a worsening staffing crisis of police, frontline healthcare workers, & teachers due to unrealistic workloads (among other dysfunctional problems).
I live in Stockton. I use BART to get into the city without BART's existence or at lease Blue Line I and many other's will be competing for the same amount of parking, the same amount of roadway as the rest of any of you sole drivers let alone the money I spend (leave) into the local economy. I'm not paying 6 dollars for half a hour parking at fisherman's wharf when BART parking is half that for a day. Also for the comments who say they'll never take BART due to safety, it's likely the same people who will never park in SF due to thieves smashing windows.
How about, what would Bart look like without Drug Addicts and drug users and fair evaders, daily riding the Bart system and making riding Bart so uncomfortable and Disgusting. how about imagining having Bart police present at the station's to address Issues and prevent criminals from entering the Bart system. Now, that's something I would like to imagine unfortunately Barts management is to stupid to implement the obvious solutions.
Up here in Seattle, there is a bus stop for children where a homeless camp happen to be. Instead of taking care of the homeless camp they moved the bus stop farther away. This is the type of mentality that we are dealing with.
I saw couple of goofy bart janitors at the above stations just laughed & gave props to some gate jumpers one evening 👏 😂. This is the type of mentality we are dealing with.
@@plantsplantz2116Bart employees are getting special treatment because of their unions… unions supports democrats in terms of donation and we all know what democrat policies looks like (progressive ideology). I don’t want to put politics on it but it goes back on policies created by the Board of Directors and politicians. If you listen closely the answers of interviewee they didnt even mention safety and cleanliness.. another progressive minded and democrat voter… just saying..🤷🤷
I can tell you the Washington DC Metro train system is no different these days. I see fare evaders pass fare inspectors who don't give a damn, despite having an evasion policy they don't enforce, in addition to the drug people.
Agree 100%. I used to ride it occasionally going into the city but now there’s no reason to go into the city with all the crime and stores closing down. There’s also having to explain to my kids why there’s a pile of turd in the elevator at the BART station is also no fun.
As somebody who was born and raised in the Bay Area I had loved the BART system all my life but it's just not safe anymore I've been attacked too many times my son's my family are like no more I can't even take the BART anymore because of how dangerous it's gotten you have to fix that not to mention a lot of people are not going to want to see the homeless or the drug addicts everywhere in the BART there are times that people want to use the restrooms and they can't because it's so disgusting in there and as a person who is disabled my mother was in a wheelchair before she passed away we couldn't stand the elevators my mother passed away in 2018 and the elevator is specially in Oakland downtown Oakland smelled like pee. BART needs to fix these major problems.
There should be two BART ambassadors at each station at all times. They would watch the platform and fare gates. Have them ride trains also. This would solve most of the problems.
In Medellin, there are police at every transit station and platform. There are cleaning ladies sweeping & mopping the stations and platforms on the regular. That system is cleaner and safer than BART and the subway in Madrid, Spain.
One of the best things about the Bay Area is that you don’t have to have a car.Losing Bart would definitely suck but they should’ve cleaned Bart up years ago.
I am a big proponent of public transit in general but what we have here in bay area can hardly be called one. Public transit needs to be safe, affordable, convenient and on time which does not describe anything we have today and don't even get me started on clipper.
The issues Bart faces seems like symptoms of the larger issues on hand -- wealth inequality and housing scarcity. Yes, Bart needs to act in desperation to implement solutions like Increasing policing, reducing fare evasion, and keeping people who ruin the public system out. But I can't help but sympathize with BART since the actual root causes are not of their doing.
They can partially turn bart into providing inventory/freight delivery services to make money shipping goods around bay areas besides just ppl like fedex
That would be impossible. You can’t partially run freight and also run passengers at the same time. Freight needs much more time to offload than people. This doesn’t even factor in how poorly placed BART is for moving goods, even just getting the goods to the station would be very difficult.
There exist passenger jets with cargos. Or run only freight cargos for a fee in the wee hours when Bart is closed for passengers. Also help climate by not running diesel trailer trucks
@@pizzajona Even if these werent issues, BART runs on standard Indian rail gauge, not used in most of the rest of the US, getting any kind of freight infastructure involved there would be a massive challenge that wouldnt benefit much
@@slipknotmfkrlocust8843Yup, broad gauge 5'6" vs. standard 4'8.5" . . . another reason old legacy trains couldn't be sold off (along w/ the lack of replacement parts) & the majority are being recycled.
Upper tier management of BART, elected city officials should be forced to ride BART to work. Lead by example, shouldn’t ask people to do things your not willing to do yourself.
Ask yourselves why commuters would rather spend 4 hours per day in their cars commuting, plus the inherent costs, instead of using reliable public transit.
Bart directors are just reaping what they sow... can you imaging if they had to take a huge paycut and put that money back into turngates? and securing the stations? i dont ride back because it's dirty and unsafe, how hard is it to understand and fix this issue?
Clean up the drug addicts keep the stations clean and safe. BART should’ve also been an advocate for keeping the RAIDERS and A’s in Oakland, because a lot of people rode bart to the Games.
How about correlate management's pay with amount of riders, their satisfaction and revenue. Pay will be lower than average when they're doing bad; while above average when they're good.
There are a lot better areas to support than the peninsula/Sf or the area that won’t build housing. Reverse the commute and minimize people relying on commuting to a physical location.
it would be fine. for all the newcombers, theres still people who lived in the bay before bart. some of my family helped build it. like many projects, it displaced people for other people. all for business interests, segregated communities. theres other options. build jobsites where people live.
Stop with the doom and gloom about there being no BART, it isn't going away EVER. There is no reason to put a toll on the Bay Area freeways, stop trying to push the MTA's narrative that if BART doesn't get more money they're going to disappear.
I am a bay area native. I used to ride bart into downtown SF where I worked. I wouldn't ride bart today due to the crime and violence if you paid me. My life and mental peace is more important than riding Bart. To be honest I do not recommend anyone in the community to ride Bart period. KPIX has been reporting on the wrong topics for the last few days regarding Bart. No disrespect to KPIX employees but some people are dumb af in the station. Please do interview me so I can provide the accurate information.
This is poor management on barts part. Why is it not fully staffed with low enforcement? Why isn’t it 24hr? Why hasn’t it been made into more substantial loops out to Stockton and into solano county? Why is the extension in Antioch not even the same train?? Prices are sky high for the service, the parking is impossible because they don’t have even close to enough. City planners are horrible at there jobs and so are BARTs leadership
downtown SF is dead, office workers at SF don't need to commute on BART anymore and BART is a relic now. You can save BART, put it on back burner and give it a 30% services and 70% reduction of expenses. No justification to throw money after all those empty trains.
Bart is over charging people to ride it because of the gross over time pay roll. Blame them self, not the public for their mismanagement, the board should be fired. example. over 70 year old janitor made three hundred thousand per year, they said it wasn't right but it was not illegal. WTF no wonder they have problems they think the publics pocket book is a free for all, lets open the payroll book to the public, and see what's going on,
Bart need to reinvent his image and not trying to improve. Bart need a brand new brand, brand new face not a band aid or a face lift. A plenty of possibility out there, Bart does not want to spend money for it. It is a shame
I agree, give BART trillions of dollars or whatever they want, the state budget be damned. And to do this, double taxes for everybody in the state, triple them if necessary afterall without BART the economy of the Bay Area will die and nobody wants that.
Too many times BART and Muni made me felt very unwelcome to continue riding on board their vehicles to go where I need to go. For the past 3+ years, I've been forced to drive, often alone w/o any passengers, even within San Francisco. I have to say I have been stuck with my current habit of transport, which is driving a car. And my next car still needs to be a car that runs on gasoline due to economic and infrastructural reasons.
I have a range of over 100 miles for less than $20 a round trip. Y'all might profit from lengthening your commutes, but my life would be worse (and the air I breathe would be worse). Maybe that President was wrong - maybe it IS a zero-sum game.
Tourist: what is that smell? Me: Thats the homeless person who just left after shitting himself where youre sitting. Tourist: Why didnt you say something... Me: I did, but you plopped down so fast you werent listening...not your fault you dont live here and trust your trains at home...cause they are controlled.
No, w/o BART more cars & freeways! Ferries disappeared even before BART existed (initially stopped in 1958), then some renewed interest after the Transbay Tube fire 1979 & the Loma Prieta earthquake 1989. Also what about the Key System (a predecessor of sorts to BART that ran from 1903-1958)?
Getting rid of Bart would be monumentally stupid. It’s not great, but still needed. They need to stop being so greedy in the state offices and provide the necessary funds for it. Stop with the climate change bs too. Yeah Bart uses electricity, but how do you think that is generated. The real problem is, our roads can’t handle the massive population here that grew exponentially since Bart was created. So Bart is needed but poorly inefficient in the way it operates. One line in each direction with no alternative, routes that force you to travel the entire system when geographically they are close (Dublin to Concord for example)
Privatize bart, sell to the highest bidder, lease the right of ways and infrastructure for a dollar a year. A democrat-run state cannot operate these agencies,
Increase fare revenue is not the key solution to keep Bart. Safety and cleanness are the main issues.
i would agree. BART should take at trip to japan or china to see how they run their rail system. IN japan in the trains late, you get a ticket that you can give your employer instead of your pay being cut for being late... theres a conductor welcoming riders to the platform,, they have gates that stoppeople from evading fairs.. yes that costs money, but it sounds like bart first needs to go into the red, reduce their prices, and get rdiership up before looking at making a profit, that does mean looking to CA governor to help keep BART afloat. AND EXPAND TO THE SOUTH! jesus christ BUILD asecond tunnel further south and make it a priority thats a way to increase ridership if you can get from San Jose to SF. hell connect to nearby malls, santana row, themeparks as ana dded incentive for riders to use work with local musuems and introduce free musuem and ridership days etc. theres plenty of ways, people just think about money first instead of ridership
I will always be a proponent for getting people out of cars and into public transit. But that does not give BART license to keep screwing up. People want an uneventful commute in safe and clean trains. GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER, BART!
Starts at the local level. Bart is a transit agency not the city of San Francisco or the state of California. Bart can most definitely do better when it comes to it's own management, corruption, fares, and fare evasion, hiring more Bart PD. But homelessness and drug addicts go far beyond Bart. Perhaps stopping them from fare evasion is the best solution, but I digress.
@@TheLIRRFrenchie... I can tell you they are good at wasting taxpayer money. They built an enclosed gate around the elevator at Bay Fair to stop fare evaders from using the elevator without paying. The thing malfunctioned for the first couple of months, and people could just push their way past it. The gate took months to build, probably cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and was completely ineffective. BART management completely stonewalled an independent financial auditor and made her quit. That tells you all you need to know.
As long as more law abiding ppl pay their fare than evader...everything will be ok.
Creative until the balance shifts
@@theWZZA I work with an IT MSP that also worked with BART. The horror stories they had of how unorganized, and the levels off bureaucratic red tape to get anything done were insane. Getting permission from 3-4 people to make a single change to software settings, that kind of stuff.
the 1st thing is to replace all of their management, then talk about clean and safe on the trains.
People are getting robbed and assaulted on BART, and you want them to keep riding because of the environment? Do these people have any grasp on reality?
No. Just a failed ideology. They have been trained not to think for themselves. Typical useful idiots every authoritarian regime relies upon because of their stupidity.
We'd be going a step backwards without a transit system. Not everyone should be behind the wheel nor forced to be.
Not everyone should have children but…..
@@User-54631not helping
I agree with you. I experienced a car accident and suffered from that. Public transit helped me out.
Now I am going to feel forced and stressed out. I cannout afford a $100 lyft ride to get to school. May be more accidents or drivers going speed limit if there are some people still struggling with trauma like me.
There will always be a Transit system, it just won't be BART, these Journalist just want to make it seem all humans are stupid and not capable of re-inventing themselves.............
True, *BART is a necessity* from SF to the South Bay, *but it MUST be clean and safe.* Strong police presence, especially at dangerous stations. Multiple security cameras on every train and station. No homelessness. No loitering. No crime. No illicit drug use. No littering. No defecating. No urinating.
Your comment should be Bart director’s #1 priority then the answers of the interviewee should come last.. we are going in wrong direction… thanks to the progressive ideologies brought to you by democrats and their voters.
@@donlee.4308 We need common sense solutions. *The safety and cleanliness issues of BART are just a symptom of widespread issues that need to be URGENTLY addressed throughout CA.* (1) We need well staffed, well managed, and reliable police departments and visible police presence throughout all our jurisdictions. 💙🖤No more public protests against police. Also, no more illegal police department miscondict (ie SJPD misconduct has been blatant & frequent). (2) Overpower the rampant criminal activity, especially organized crime, with effective law enforcement & prosecution. Criminals are currently overpowering CA law enforcement & the CA legal system. (3) Follow through with the proposed evidence-based solutions for the CA homelessness crisis, such as the CARE Act for court-ordered mental health treatment & drug addiction treatment. (4) *Stop* the intake of asylum seekers & illegal border crossings because our public programs are already drowning & failing. CA & the whole country has a worsening staffing crisis of police, frontline healthcare workers, & teachers due to unrealistic workloads (among other dysfunctional problems).
😭😭😭
I live in Stockton. I use BART to get into the city without BART's existence or at lease Blue Line I and many other's will be competing for the same amount of parking, the same amount of roadway as the rest of any of you sole drivers let alone the money I spend (leave) into the local economy. I'm not paying 6 dollars for half a hour parking at fisherman's wharf when BART parking is half that for a day. Also for the comments who say they'll never take BART due to safety, it's likely the same people who will never park in SF due to thieves smashing windows.
How about, what would Bart look like without Drug Addicts and drug users and fair evaders, daily riding the Bart system and making riding Bart so uncomfortable and Disgusting. how about imagining having Bart police present at the station's to address Issues and prevent criminals from entering the Bart system. Now, that's something I would like to imagine unfortunately Barts management is to stupid to implement the obvious solutions.
Up here in Seattle, there is a bus stop for children where a homeless camp happen to be. Instead of taking care of the homeless camp they moved the bus stop farther away. This is the type of mentality that we are dealing with.
I saw couple of goofy bart janitors at the above stations just laughed & gave props to some gate jumpers one evening 👏 😂. This is the type of mentality we are dealing with.
@@plantsplantz2116Bart employees are getting special treatment because of their unions… unions supports democrats in terms of donation and we all know what democrat policies looks like (progressive ideology). I don’t want to put politics on it but it goes back on policies created by the Board of Directors and politicians. If you listen closely the answers of interviewee they didnt even mention safety and cleanliness.. another progressive minded and democrat voter… just saying..🤷🤷
I can tell you the Washington DC Metro train system is no different these days. I see fare evaders pass fare inspectors who don't give a damn, despite having an evasion policy they don't enforce, in addition to the drug people.
Agree 100%. I used to ride it occasionally going into the city but now there’s no reason to go into the city with all the crime and stores closing down. There’s also having to explain to my kids why there’s a pile of turd in the elevator at the BART station is also no fun.
Bay Area traffic would become worse than LA traffic if there was no BART. People don’t realize how much of a necessity it is.
How about the Bay Area without mountains of shit and needles?
Before Bart there was the Key System. And some saw the effect it had after they deceased operation
As somebody who was born and raised in the Bay Area I had loved the BART system all my life but it's just not safe anymore I've been attacked too many times my son's my family are like no more I can't even take the BART anymore because of how dangerous it's gotten you have to fix that not to mention a lot of people are not going to want to see the homeless or the drug addicts everywhere in the BART there are times that people want to use the restrooms and they can't because it's so disgusting in there and as a person who is disabled my mother was in a wheelchair before she passed away we couldn't stand the elevators my mother passed away in 2018 and the elevator is specially in Oakland downtown Oakland smelled like pee. BART needs to fix these major problems.
I used to ride often, but, it’s gotten so gnarly I don’t even consider it. Lyft changed the game
Lyft also costs like 5 times more
There should be two BART ambassadors at each station at all times. They would watch the platform and fare gates. Have them ride trains also. This would solve most of the problems.
In Medellin, there are police at every transit station and platform. There are cleaning ladies sweeping & mopping the stations and platforms on the regular. That system is cleaner and safer than BART and the subway in Madrid, Spain.
or just make it free. no need to even worry about it. ib4 who pays idgaf who
We need BART!
One of the best things about the Bay Area is that you don’t have to have a car.Losing Bart would definitely suck but they should’ve cleaned Bart up years ago.
I do, I need to use my car for work since they don't supply me one and I have to cover a large area efficiently.
Cool go to Danville to San Jose on bart let me know when you get there.
I am a big proponent of public transit in general but what we have here in bay area can hardly be called one. Public transit needs to be safe, affordable, convenient and on time which does not describe anything we have today and don't even get me started on clipper.
I feel like i just watched a bart paid advertisement
The issues Bart faces seems like symptoms of the larger issues on hand -- wealth inequality and housing scarcity. Yes, Bart needs to act in desperation to implement solutions like Increasing policing, reducing fare evasion, and keeping people who ruin the public system out. But I can't help but sympathize with BART since the actual root causes are not of their doing.
I knew the answer before watching….”More taxes for $500 Alex.” During the BART strike there were more jobs in SF.
the round trip from walnut creek to SF is still, in fact, 3 hours
They can partially turn bart into providing inventory/freight delivery services to make money shipping goods around bay areas besides just ppl like fedex
That would be impossible. You can’t partially run freight and also run passengers at the same time. Freight needs much more time to offload than people.
This doesn’t even factor in how poorly placed BART is for moving goods, even just getting the goods to the station would be very difficult.
There exist passenger jets with cargos.
Or run only freight cargos for a fee in the wee hours when Bart is closed for passengers. Also help climate by not running diesel trailer trucks
@@pizzajona Even if these werent issues, BART runs on standard Indian rail gauge, not used in most of the rest of the US, getting any kind of freight infastructure involved there would be a massive challenge that wouldnt benefit much
@@slipknotmfkrlocust8843Yup, broad gauge 5'6" vs. standard 4'8.5" . . . another reason old legacy trains couldn't be sold off (along w/ the lack of replacement parts) & the majority are being recycled.
@@Kitty8791 do you know why such an odd decision was made? I dont get why BART would take the time to use a completely unused rail gage beforehand
Upper tier management of BART, elected city officials should be forced to ride BART to work. Lead by example, shouldn’t ask people to do things your not willing to do yourself.
bart is the lifeline
I’d like to see Newsom, and other CA politicians ride BART. 😂
Ask yourselves why commuters would rather spend 4 hours per day in their cars
commuting, plus the inherent costs, instead of using reliable public transit.
Make it free for a few weeks and see if people really would use it? That would tell management a lot about their real problem.
Protect the BART
I expand transit!
Bart directors are just reaping what they sow... can you imaging if they had to take a huge paycut and put that money back into turngates? and securing the stations? i dont ride back because it's dirty and unsafe, how hard is it to understand and fix this issue?
BART is clean and safe. It is certainly safer than your car. It probably cleaner too 😂.
Is the intv with the woman at the computer done on a boat??
Clean up the drug addicts keep the stations clean and safe. BART should’ve also been an advocate for keeping the RAIDERS and A’s in Oakland, because a lot of people rode bart to the Games.
How about an interview with someone who doesnt say your question is impossible?
The question is left unanswered in the end.
How about correlate management's pay with amount of riders, their satisfaction and revenue. Pay will be lower than average when they're doing bad; while above average when they're good.
Same with politicians. Pay based on performance.
There are a lot better areas to support than the peninsula/Sf or the area that won’t build housing. Reverse the commute and minimize people relying on commuting to a physical location.
Get rid of the pensions. Cut administrative cost. Improve the balance sheet. As far as getting riders to come back, good luck.
it would be fine. for all the newcombers, theres still people who lived in the bay before bart. some of my family helped build it. like many projects, it displaced people for other people. all for business interests, segregated communities. theres other options. build jobsites where people live.
Stop with the doom and gloom about there being no BART, it isn't going away EVER. There is no reason to put a toll on the Bay Area freeways, stop trying to push the MTA's narrative that if BART doesn't get more money they're going to disappear.
I am a bay area native. I used to ride bart into downtown SF where I worked. I wouldn't ride bart today due to the crime and violence if you paid me. My life and mental peace is more important than riding Bart. To be honest I do not recommend anyone in the community to ride Bart period. KPIX has been reporting on the wrong topics for the last few days regarding Bart. No disrespect to KPIX employees but some people are dumb af in the station. Please do interview me so I can provide the accurate information.
This is poor management on barts part. Why is it not fully staffed with low enforcement? Why isn’t it 24hr? Why hasn’t it been made into more substantial loops out to Stockton and into solano county? Why is the extension in Antioch not even the same train?? Prices are sky high for the service, the parking is impossible because they don’t have even close to enough. City planners are horrible at there jobs and so are BARTs leadership
downtown SF is dead, office workers at SF don't need to commute on BART anymore and BART is a relic now. You can save BART, put it on back burner and give it a 30% services and 70% reduction of expenses. No justification to throw money after all those empty trains.
It would be a better place!
ill probably learn how to ride a motorcycle to cut traffic if that happened.
Privatize bart, the massive bureaucracy is killing it
Survey says, "less crime", "less taxes"..
What's the point of standing on a BART map?
Bart is dangerous and smells badies
KPIX seems to fully be on a BART kick this week.
I remember living in the Bay Area before Bart.
When the population was way less than what it is today you mean?
So did you use the Key System (1903-1958) to the East Bay? Go to events at the Claremont Club & Spa in Oakland?
Bart is over charging people to ride it because of the gross over time pay roll. Blame them self, not the public for their mismanagement, the board should be fired. example. over 70 year old janitor made three hundred thousand per year, they said it wasn't right but it was not illegal. WTF no wonder they have problems they think the publics pocket book is a free for all, lets open the payroll book to the public, and see what's going on,
Without bart if you have no drivers licence it will be moped motor cycle bus or bicycle. Or horse and carriage Or walking.😅
Have you ever heared of ferrirs? Also, have you ever heared of cars (which are wildy available)?
Yes, also heard of taxi😊
..or skateboard
He said bus in his original comment… I want to say “have you heard of reading” but maybe it was just an honest mistake…
@@alanh2820 ahh, the lack of punctuation got me 😔
BART is fine! People are soft. MORE TRANSIT! Less cars!
That same commute 10 years ago is the same today, nothing has changed except the overpopulation of the Bay Area
Ok then imagine how much worse that would be without BART
Bart need to reinvent his image and not trying to improve. Bart need a brand new brand, brand new face not a band aid or a face lift. A plenty of possibility out there, Bart does not want to spend money for it. It is a shame
Yup. There are the only two options: keep subsidizing it as current levels or shut it all down. There is absolutely no option in between!
I agree, give BART trillions of dollars or whatever they want, the state budget be damned. And to do this, double taxes for everybody in the state, triple them if necessary afterall without BART the economy of the Bay Area will die and nobody wants that.
I think the Bay Area economy will take a hit weather we have bart or not. Maybe bart going away is a sign of a much bigger problem.
Too many times BART and Muni made me felt very unwelcome to continue riding on board their vehicles to go where I need to go. For the past 3+ years, I've been forced to drive, often alone w/o any passengers, even within San Francisco. I have to say I have been stuck with my current habit of transport, which is driving a car. And my next car still needs to be a car that runs on gasoline due to economic and infrastructural reasons.
Just say no to cars.
I have a range of over 100 miles for less than $20 a round trip. Y'all might profit from lengthening your commutes, but my life would be worse (and the air I breathe would be worse). Maybe that President was wrong - maybe it IS a zero-sum game.
Tourist: what is that smell?
Me: Thats the homeless person who just left after shitting himself where youre sitting.
Tourist: Why didnt you say something...
Me: I did, but you plopped down so fast you werent listening...not your fault you dont live here and trust your trains at home...cause they are controlled.
If you want to save BART remove the toll stations. Why should something so wonderful cost? BART should be free for everybody.
Instead of WITHOUT BART, do an episode NEVER HAD BART. The Bay Area would look quite different: fewer people/cars/freeways, more buses/ferries.
No, w/o BART more cars & freeways! Ferries disappeared even before BART existed (initially stopped in 1958), then some renewed interest after the Transbay Tube fire 1979 & the Loma Prieta earthquake 1989. Also what about the Key System (a predecessor of sorts to BART that ran from 1903-1958)?
I am 10000000000% sure there will be another transit system, as long as there are people who needs to travel to that location
Getting rid of Bart would be monumentally stupid. It’s not great, but still needed. They need to stop being so greedy in the state offices and provide the necessary funds for it.
Stop with the climate change bs too. Yeah Bart uses electricity, but how do you think that is generated. The real problem is, our roads can’t handle the massive population here that grew exponentially since Bart was created. So Bart is needed but poorly inefficient in the way it operates. One line in each direction with no alternative, routes that force you to travel the entire system when geographically they are close (Dublin to Concord for example)
It's totally fine without a bart to over 95% residents what a good show
265k in Bathroom overtime. Makes sense.
Probably less homeless.
Ppl still wearing masks lol
Mind your own face not others. None of your business.
@@Lora-GThe pandi is over sheep. Get your act together. You are able to leave your house from under your bed!🤡
People who still wear face coverings now are most likely associated with the left.
Get rid of Bart and the limit ability off scumbags getting to Pleasanton/Dublin.
screw bart
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There will be a different public transport system, it just won't be BART :D people are so fatalist :D
Privatize bart, sell to the highest bidder, lease the right of ways and infrastructure for a dollar a year. A democrat-run state cannot operate these agencies,
There's the ferry to go across the bay, no big loss.
yea and BART is a big part of the eternal huge state and municipal cash deficit.
There’s a reason ferries started dying out a long time ago, they are insanely slow. Slow ferries is why the Bay Bridge was built in the first place