I take my bike on BART every time I need to take it -- one to five days a week to get to work. I work 2nd shift and commute against the rush anyway (SF to CoCo) but since I take the yellow line, there are many people with luggage and just people in general. The trains can be crowded even at 2:30 p.m., the middle of the day.

Should the next generation BART cars have on the manufacturer plate
"Built for BART by [whoever builds the next gen cars, i.e.,
Alstom Transport, Hornell, New York,
Bombardier Transportation, Plattsburgh, New York,
CAF,
Hitachi, Ltd. - Rail Car Division,
Kawasaki Heavy Industries - Rail Car Division, Yonkers, New York,
Kinki Sharyo (Boopie's favorite),
Nippon Sharyo,
Siemens AG - Transportation Systems Division, Sacramento, California]."

as well as "BART NextGen Cars by [insert builder name here]" ?

You get my vote for dumbass of the day. Couldn't you do better than that? Maybe I should be shrapnel 2? That's clever! I don't normally call people dumbasses in a professional setting but I'll make an exception today and do it under this screen name. If my workday hadn't ended so crappily, I'd let it roll off like usual.

You claim to be BART Police. Huh! Quit hiding behind me and come back when you've grown some manhood.

And by the way.... lose the name, you're cramping my style.

This morning's commute was just horrible. I happened to be on the train that broke down before the TOD this morning. The train was having "major" mechanical problems in the direction of Embarcadero. How a train can work in one direction and not another is puzzling. After waiting for 15 minutes for the TO to move from one side of the train to the other, we all had to unload at West Oakland and go to the other platform to head to Embarcadero.

Here are my example phrases for the automatic announcement system.

"This is a Dublin/Pleasanton-bound four car Blue Line train. Next station (or The Next Stop Is): Powell Street."

"Now approaching Powell Street. Connection is available to MUNI bus lines and MUNI Metro Light Rail Lines. Doors will open on the left side."

"Now approaching Dublin/Pleasanton, the terminal station. This is the last stop on this train. Attention, passengers, please leave the train at this station. We appreciate your patronage and thank you for riding BART."

who is the little man who runs around with the high pitched voice and "helps" passengers? why is he in the booth? is he employed by bart? if so, in what capacity? and he seems to have some official bart clothing, but no name tag or bart i.d.? WHO IS THIS GUY ?!?!?!

Huh!?!?!

There is a 30-minute delay at Fremont between Richmond and Daly City due to an equipment problem on the track.