Posted on 09/06/2019 7:45:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
It is great news for conductors who depend upon spending other people’s tax money.
Got to spend tax money. How does not matter.
You can sit down in feces, they do not care.
The CRAP laden Sanctuary City that labeled the NRA terrorists:-)
I will say, at least almost every day I ride, DART does check people for their pass and will fine them if they don’t have them.
The stench of urine in the underground stations is nauseating. You don’t want to be there.
Liberals turned our once-nice public squares into real shitholes.
Norfolk Virginia has a little light rail playset. Same thing happens here, it’s the Bum Mover. Bums can ride it from here to there as tickets are pretty much on a honor system. If the transit whatever they are, (pretty sure not LEO), catch a non payer, they boot you off. The bums just get on the next train. The end of the line station is littered with sleeping bums and malt liquor cans.
Human waste shuts down BART escalators
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.
My area of Florida has "solved" that problem... The city put pictures over the bus windows so it's difficult for citizens to see a bus built for 60 people carrying 2 riders.
White liberal elites 'believe' in public transportation - for the little people... So they build crap that doesn't work for anyone (except to feed their big fat egos)
I am glad to hear that in Texas they still use a little common sense. That all went out the window in our area decades ago.
Unexpected consequences? NOT!
Ferry ridership is up, they make you pay and empty the boat upon arrival.
Tucson Az buses too. Its a flat out crime just how much is wasted and they always seem to want MORE!
From the article...
“It’s really sad to see homeless people sitting down passed out, or sleeping on trains, or sometimes going to the bathroom on a seat,” said Heather Hood of Oakland. “Yes, it sucks as a rider. But it’s also sad to know that’s the only place people feel safe.”
Heather, there’s always your home!
Where do they get the money for train fare?
If more of the crazies and druggies got ass kickings from normal citizens, maybe they’d go away.
Taking public transportation is STUPID. PERIOD
The idiot left wing lunatics and all of their scams all geared toward forcing everybody on to public transportation
The automobile is man’s greatest invention and is the perfect form of transportation
For those that are so inclined the mountain bike is the other perfect form of transportation
Again for those so inclined the motorcycle is an excellent form of transportation
One can take a mountain bike or regular bike on public transportation and therefore be free once you get there
the only form of public transportation I would ever take but never do is a fairy
“Taking public transportation is STUPID, PERIOD.”
Maybe now, but not always.
I used to ride the BART every day back in the 90s before the homeless crisis. The system was clean, well managed, and the stations were a short walk from anywhere.
I could go from one end of the Bay Area to the other in minutes. That same 25 miles in a car could take 2 hours or more.
I loved not needing to pay for auto insurance or parking (twice— at apartment & again at work) or getting up at 3 am to move the car for streetsweeping— or risk getting towed.
For me, the only risk in riding the trains was getting so engrossed in my book, I’d miss my stop!
But that was then, this is now. Big diff.
Sigh.
Mow that misspelled word makes the sentence FUNNY!!!!(it's ferry)
Now that misspelled word makes the sentence FUNNY!!!!(it's ferry)
Old maxim from my years of riding the CTA to work in Chicago: If there’s an empty seat on a full train car, it’s empty for a reason....
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