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Arriving "on time" but unable to exit until much later every day for months fills me with BART RAGE
Submitted by bandh on Thu, 10/09/2008 - 9:32pmThe Richmond bound train is giving me a case of BART RAGE. Share my FURY!
I ride my bike to the Fruitvale BART station. There's a bike storage service there that's free and totally rocks the casbah.
Anyways. Sometimes, because I'm tired and riding slow, I miss the 6:15 train and have to take the 6:29 departing Fruitvale. It is supposed to arrive at Richmond at around 7:00-7:05

I don't think I'll be taking my bike on BART anymore
Submitted by bandh on Sun, 08/17/2008 - 9:18amI've done it twice, and the afternoon commute home has been a nightmare. I can't maneuver, the many other bikes on the car are in the way, and I always end up bumping into people with the bike.
By the way, these are all "bike ok" routes.
Fortunately, I can bike my bark at Fruitvale Bike Station for free, I just can't ride to work on the other end.
Any Bike-Barters have some advice? Maybe I can salvage something from all this.

most outlandish thing I've seen on BART
Submitted by bandh on Wed, 08/13/2008 - 10:16pmYou've probably seen worse, but this is my topper.
Back when I first started taking BART to/from work I'd take the 3:50ish train from Richmond back towards Fremont. I tended to doze off between Richmond and Del Norte.
One day, I wake up to the "click" of a lighter and a "sssssssuuuuusssssst!" noise.

Does this amuse or annoy you?
Submitted by bandh on Thu, 06/19/2008 - 10:58pmI ride BART pretty much every day since 2003; My co-workers and I jokingly play "what's that smell" every Friday (Friday seems to be the stinkiest day for BART, dunno why).
Anyways, I decided to modify the BART logo from a "b a" to "p u" and change the name to "bay area rancid transit" so we could make some coffee cups, magnets and whatever on cafepress to amuse ourselves. That was back in 2004, and the cafepress shop didn't do anything since. Then I found this blog and thought what the hell:

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