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People bitch and moan about BART riders who use their cell phone on the train, but try being a train to while some retard uses a push-to-talk phone. Who in the hell still uses that service outside of commercial use? Maybe it was a work phone, but I don't want to hear the whole damn convo and those annoying as chirps from the phone.

Now for my 2nd grip today, I keep saying 4 and 5 car trains during mid-morning and mid-day don't work. I hop on a train at lunch and it's a 5 car Milbrae train that is pretty full, all cars had a couple of dozen standees. I don't get how BART runs 9-10 car trains up until 10:17 from Bay Point, then cut back to 5 cars. I get on some of those last 9 car trains at 9:32, 9:47, 10:02 or 10:17 and they are no where near being half full most days. Why not just cut back earlier to 6, 7 or 8 car trains and leave it that way until the evening commute?

Bike2Bart's picture

Those push-to-talk phones are

Those push-to-talk phones are ghastly.

I once confronted a fellow rider who was using one loudly during evening rush hour. I told him he was disrupting everybody on the car and that it wasn't an appropriate time or place to be using a walkie-talkie. His response was "Nobody else has complained, you must be the one with the problem."

Sadly, he had a point... nobody else did complain, out of that car full of people, so it must be me with the problem. :-(

Evil Pete's picture

I was once trapped in line

I was once trapped in line between two people that were pushing the "talk" button on the phones on their belts but to "beep" each other.

I was almost ready to rip the phone off one of their belts and smash it.

chrystalflanders's picture

I like that..

I like that.. hilarious!

-Chrystal Flanders
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