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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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To: SeekAndFind
"problems on BART trains which include rising crime and a substantial increase in the number of homeless people using the trains as a moving shelter (and occasionally a bathroom)"!!!!!

So not only do the people of San Francisco allow human defecation on the sidewalks and in the grocery stores but on buses and subways also???!!!???

What can anyone say to--or about--people who consider it perfectly all right to defecate on sidewalks and in stores, busses, and subways???

This is beneath contempt! So are the people who OBVIOUSLY condone it!

It violates every standard of civilized behavior.

This is what these people have in mind for the entire USA?????

Obviously these people are not capable of governing themselves.

21 posted on 02/13/2020 2:28:28 PM PST by Savage Beast (My perception of Trump these days is that he is in close communication with God. --Qiviut)
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To: SeekAndFind

I crunched the numbers.

The Tokyo subway handles BART’s annual ridership in one week.


22 posted on 02/13/2020 2:29:12 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: SeekAndFind; Willie Green

Where is Willie Green to tell us how wonderful government trains are and how happy we’ll all be when we ride the choo choo?


23 posted on 02/13/2020 2:30:42 PM PST by John O (God Save America (Please))
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To: realcleanguy

I remember when BART was new and it was awesome back then.
Clean, fast and modern.
Now it is a disturbing mess.
It is no wonder why management refuse to turn over crime video, the usual suspects would just riot, again.


24 posted on 02/13/2020 2:32:17 PM PST by glasseye ("24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not." ~ H. L. Mencken)
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To: Mouton

The trolly in Seattle goes by South Lake Union Transit or SLUT for short. They even sell tee shirts that say Ride the SLUT


25 posted on 02/13/2020 3:34:29 PM PST by BubbaBobTX ("The problem with socialism is you eventually run out of other peoples money." Margaret Thatcher)
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To: SeekAndFind; All

The POOP is too damn high!!


26 posted on 02/13/2020 3:46:37 PM PST by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell..?)
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To: Jeff Chandler

MARTA stands for Moving Africans Rapidly Through Atlanta. It’s handy to get from the airport to a station where you switch to a car.


27 posted on 02/13/2020 4:05:20 PM PST by dblshot (I am John Galt.)
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To: Swordmaker

I didn’t recall that. I was young then and didn’t tune in quite as much in those days.

Thanks for the mention.


28 posted on 02/13/2020 4:44:13 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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To: Lizavetta

Civilization is very fragile—and it does not take many leftists to destroy it.


29 posted on 02/13/2020 4:44:54 PM PST by cgbg (The Democratic Party is morphing into the Donner Party)
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To: dblshot

“MARTA stands for Moving Africans Rapidly Through Atlanta. It’s handy to get from the airport to a station where you switch to a car.”

I rode MARTA from downtown to the airport several months ago. The last two or three stations before the airport stop were a bit sketchy, to say the least. I kept pulling my luggage closer to me as we neared the airport.


30 posted on 02/13/2020 5:17:32 PM PST by riverdawg
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To: SeekAndFind

10,000,000 riders/1825 days = 5479 lost riders per day.

Is my math right?


31 posted on 02/13/2020 5:53:44 PM PST by moovova
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To: moovova

You most assuredly are. The question is where did these riders go?


32 posted on 02/13/2020 6:51:03 PM PST by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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To: SeekAndFind

Almost 5500 less riders a day. That’s astounding. I have no clue where they went. The Trump economy allowed them to buy a car?


33 posted on 02/13/2020 8:36:39 PM PST by moovova
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To: SeekAndFind

Was in SF about 25 years ago and the main BART station was already becoming a place that you didn’t want to spend much time in or around - can only imagine it has to be 10 times worse than the toilet streets these days.


34 posted on 02/14/2020 2:54:14 AM PST by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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