http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/transportation/detail?entry_id=76657

to summarize, you can buy a bunch of $2 clipper cards and get cheap rides. use $2 ticket to enter the station, take an $8 ride, and the same card will still allow you to exit (the card allows a $10 negative balance). throw the card away and use another $2 card for your next trip. yikes.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/06/25/BA581E4ITI.DTL&tsp=1

i think the officer was totally justified, and i agree with linton johnson (i never thought i'd agree with linton on anything. what a shock; no pun intended) who said that by not tasing the guy he would be sending the wrong message - that you can put up a fight with a cop and they will let you go.

and add lynette sweet to the douchebag list. she's right up there with john burrass.

the purpose of this thread is to provide a place to find the most up to date information on the looming strike and how it will affect service. anything not directly contributing to that purpose will be deleted.

just to be clear, this thread is ONLY for information on the strike as it relates train service. the thread is here for the sole purpose of answering the question: "how will i get to my job/school/parole hearing/pedicure appointment on monday?"

FYI, there is some douchebag (hmm, i wonder who it might be) that is creating fake accounts to trick people into thinking someone else is posting. examples of master chief's, um i mean, this persons fake accounts include:

oparator 9 (instead of operator 9)
boopejones (instead of boopiejones)

i will delete these as they come up, but just be aware to double check the name of the poster if something in the post seems out of character...

you finally figured out which door lines up with the escalator at walnut creek!

this guy has been riding in my car every day for the past year or so. and every day he pushes his way back one car just as our train is approaching walnut creek. and every day, the car he moves to stops about 10 yards behind the escalator.

last night he FINALLY figured it out and stayed in our car. lo and behold, he was first to the elevator. even beat mendoza. here's to you, mr. head to toe denim man!!!

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/26/BA5L16531O.DTL

"People talk about people 'right off the boat.' My problem is people right off the BART." - SF police Capt. Gary Jimenez

sure, believe whatever you want. i'm sure crime has nothing to do with the upstanding residents of the tenderloin and EVERYTHING to do with random people coming from the east bay to kill them for no reason. two words for ya gary: drugs. gangs.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/19/BAED161L5T.DTL&tsp=1

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/20/BAI4161N0D.DTL&type=newsbayarea

there better be rioting in the streets or i will be rioting in the streets to protest the morons that are too selective about when they riot in the streets.

so there was a disabled train between walnut creek and lafayette, and bart handled it about as bad as can be imagined. i get to walnut creek and there is a train about to leave for SF, but on the other platform. it is too late for me to catch it anyway, so no big deal. i go to the normal platform and wait. they keep making announcements that trains in the pittsburg direction will be delayed 15 minutes due to a disabled train. no mention of delays in the sf direction (the direction everyone is heading). our monitors display an sf traini in 6 minutes.

I am on a pbp to sf train. It is about 8:00 and we have been sitting between rockridge and macarthur for about 10 minutes. Finally the TO comes on the intercom (based on her tone, I am guessing after multiple people hit the call button to ask what is going on). In a snotty tone she says something like "there is a millbrae train behind me and a fremont train at macarthur" ok, how does that help me? I want to know two things 1) why the fuck we haven't moved and more importantly 2) an ETA for when we will move.

this post is directed to the older asian guy with the black backpack that says "mendoza" in white leters and wears the red mexico soccer hat. ok, so maybe he isn't asian, but he looks like a taller skinny version of pat morita. back to my point, which is: you are SLOW!!! yet you somehow sprint out of the train every evening at walnut creek, cut me off at the escalator, and then take your sweet ass time once you get in front of me. i will not tolerate this any longer. next time i see you, i am going bart olympics on your sorry ass.

Ok, so I was just in line for a train at montgomery and this african american tranny (I think it was a tranny, but a very convincing one) goes down the line asking people if they have a dollar for four quarters. Everyone ignores him/her. I did happen to have a dollar, so I say yes. I give her the dollar and she holds out her hand, which has about $1.50 in various coins. So I take four quarters. She says thanks, then makes some comment like "you got a very nice hard body" which is the reason I think she was a tranny and the reason I feel like this might be some kinda scam.

Just read an examiner article about this. Bert hasn't signed the contract, so the company profiding the wi fi can't get funding because investors want to see a signed contract. Delays by bart might prove really costly, because the longer they wait to sign, the shittier credit markets are becoming and the providers access to financing is going down the tubes by the minute.

Car full of females
Blondes brunettes and red heads too
To stand, I am doomed

Last friday I was caught up in that mess with the fire. My train made it one stop and just sat there with no ETA. So I got off at lafayette and went back home. Back at WC station, the agent told me to exit out the swing gate and just tell the agent on monday that I was part of the fire delay and they'd let me in free (well, not really free, but I wouldn't have to pay for my friday "ride")

Your ass is too fat for you to be leaning it against the side of my seat. It keeps bumping into my shoulder. I repeat: your ass is too fat.