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San Francisco's BART System Ridership Has Declined By 10 Million Over 5 Years
Hotair ^ | 02/13/2020 | John Sexton

Posted on 02/13/2020 1:53:20 PM PST by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 02/13/2020 1:53:20 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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BART - Bay Area Rapid Toilet by now, I’d imagine


2 posted on 02/13/2020 1:55:12 PM PST by tomkat
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I would have thought it would have gone up.

After all, there aren’t many cities that provide free moving toilets, every few minutes.

The city doesn’t even care if you wipe.

That’s Pelosi’s kind of city, and that’s why they love her.

3 posted on 02/13/2020 1:56:48 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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15% less ridership. That’s a lot of lost revenue. I guess they’ll need to cut back on maintenance, security, cleaning services.


4 posted on 02/13/2020 1:58:09 PM PST by CatOwner
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Spend your hard earned money to sit in human waste....where do I sign up for that!


5 posted on 02/13/2020 1:59:42 PM PST by V_TWIN
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So let’s build high speed rail so it can happen all over again...


6 posted on 02/13/2020 1:59:43 PM PST by Chauncey Gardiner
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H A S . N E V E R . T U R N E D . A . P R O F I T

it has lost money every single month in it's entire existence

7 posted on 02/13/2020 2:00:25 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Time to up our FR Monthlies by 5-10%. You'll < hardly miss it and it will help.)
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Not to mention robbery and assault by gangs of roaming Yutes.

A problem that cannot be mentioned. Because Racism.


8 posted on 02/13/2020 2:00:29 PM PST by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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I thought the city of Phoenix should rename their choo choo:

PHoenix Area Rapid Transit


9 posted on 02/13/2020 2:04:48 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (BLACK LIVES MAGA)
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To: SeekAndFind

When I lived in the city by the bidet, I commuted to the east bay from the city’s financial district, boarding BART at Montgomery street. One time I decided to go west toward Daly City because one of my office buddies and I were talking about something so I figured I would just do the Uturn at Daly city where he parked. When I got off the train with him, I looked around and said: this place looks like a port of entry, not a train station, adding does anyone speak English. He laughed. That was in 89, I imagine it has gotten much worse.


10 posted on 02/13/2020 2:05:50 PM PST by Mouton (The media is the enemy of the people.)
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What, they didn't take you up on it ??   ;-)
11 posted on 02/13/2020 2:06:02 PM PST by tomkat
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Sorry, if your a Democrat in California complaining about BART or anything else, I say “tough shit”. You asked for it, your getting it!


12 posted on 02/13/2020 2:06:18 PM PST by Cen-Tejas
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The “rapid” transit in Fairfield, Ca used to go by the Acronym: FART.


13 posted on 02/13/2020 2:06:54 PM PST by Mouton (The media is the enemy of the people.)
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Yet they also cited misgivings about crime, filth and homeless people seeking shelter on the rail system

That's right, folks. Misgivings.

Not the true emotions like revulsion, anger, fear. Just a pussified gentle word like misgivings.

Everyone knows the reason and everyone knows the people paid to maintain and police the BART have been ordered not to do it.

Our leaders are handing our cities over to vagrants, addicts, and criminals right before our eyes.

14 posted on 02/13/2020 2:07:28 PM PST by Lizavetta
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we have double hinged buses running around our medium size city....almost always empty....


15 posted on 02/13/2020 2:08:35 PM PST by cherry
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Ask your riders where they are going and why would they want to go there. If the destinations are no longer attractive, say because they are overrun by homeless people with tents on every sidewalk and who use those same sidewalks as latrines, then the answer is obvious. No one wants to go where your trains will take the, except away. Idiots are just not asking the right questions.


16 posted on 02/13/2020 2:11:06 PM PST by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplophobe bigot!)
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So why now just fill it with the homeless people and drive them around nonstop? Add a few cars if necessary.
Whe it is filled up switch tracks and head for DC to unload them.


17 posted on 02/13/2020 2:11:26 PM PST by oldasrocks (Heavily Medicated for your Protection.)
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It aren’t safe no mo. Thugs, yutes, homeless and crazies.


18 posted on 02/13/2020 2:12:39 PM PST by kaehurowing
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To: DoughtyOne
H A S . N E V E R . T U R N E D . A . P R O F I T

it has lost money every single month in it's entire existence

How many recall that BART trains were supposed to operate autonomously? No train operators? Never worked from the first week in Mid September 1972. Never worked without operators since. BIG FAIL!

19 posted on 02/13/2020 2:16:10 PM PST by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplophobe bigot!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Robberies, beatings, BART police, filthiness of the cars, diseases being spread, etc. Yeah, I can see why it’s declined


20 posted on 02/13/2020 2:20:55 PM PST by realcleanguy
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