BART didn't build those escalators,
my purely green/organic maintenance
programs did.
Posted on 07/26/2012 5:19:29 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
When work crews pulled open a broken BART escalator at San Francisco's Civic Center Station last month, they found so much human excrement in its works they had to call a hazardous-materials team.
While the sheer volume of human waste was surprising, its presence was not. Once the stations close, the bottom of BART station stairwells in downtown San Francisco are often a prime location for homeless people to camp for the night or find a private place to relieve themselves.
All those biological excretions can gum up the wheels and gears of BART's escalators, shutting them down for long periods of extended repairs, increasing station cleaning costs and creating an unpleasant aroma for morning commuters.
....."Nobody wants to be walking in urine and feces, I know that, (but) if we don't see it or the person doesn't admit to it, they can just say it was someone else," Jenkins said. "Certain crimes you don't see, you can't enforce."
BART police officers sweep "each and every stairwell at each and every station" before the stations open in the morning and ask people who spent the night in the station to move somewhere else, Jenkins said......
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
SF is spending $2 BILLION for a useless 1.7 mile “Central Subway” that nobody wants and it really isn’t needed for transportation. It’s great they are building a new crapper for the bums.
BART didn't build those escalators,
my purely green/organic maintenance
programs did.
>> .....”Nobody wants to be walking in urine and feces, I know that, (but) if we don’t see it or the person doesn’t admit to it, they can just say it was someone else,” Jenkins said. “Certain crimes you don’t see, you can’t enforce.” <<
Yeah, like there’s no DNA or cameras.
A purely practical solution: a three-foot high stall with roof and a simple hole in the floor. Material drops into a holding area and then is robotically pushed into a moving stream funneling to sewer line.
Most people would rather die than use this facility in public. It will mainly solve the homeless’ needs.
Seems like it would be more cost effective to put a few porta-potties around down there.
“San Francisco!
Open your golden gate!
So I can crap on it.....”
Symbolism .. and folks wonder why Liebralism smells so bad. Look at its ‘fruits’.
“Nobody wants to be walking in urine and feces” - Oh, yeah? Did you ask Barney Frank?
You just had to turn this thread into show and tell, didn’t you? Thanks a lot!
Nancy should camp out at the bottom some day to observe and report on her findings.
There's a slideshow at the site.
I can just picture the editor in the newsroom with a cigar in his mouth, "Now Liz, I want you to go down there and don't come back until you get pictures!"
Excuse my profanity, but that’s a s**t eating grin.
Or maybe I should say, she looks “relieved.”
"Oh, crap! Looks like we're going to need a whole bunch of No. 2 screwdrivers"
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