Comments on: Rainy BART Day http://bartdiaries.com/2009/10/13/rainy-bart-day/ Sat, 12 Nov 2011 19:47:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: jeff http://bartdiaries.com/2009/10/13/rainy-bart-day/comment-page-1/#comment-144 jeff Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:08:34 +0000 http://bartdiaries.com/?p=324#comment-144 I don't ride BART every day, so I don't know that this is out of the ordinary. I'm guessing it is, but perhaps not as bad as rainy days can be for the system: At 8:30, our East Bay-bound train took six minutes to get tp 16th street. Jerking its way toward Civic Center, which it arrived at much more slowly than normal. Then it got held while the operator walked through all the cars trying to locate a problem with the brakes. All told: Where a 10-minute ride would've been normal turned into about 20. Despite all of the this, I still wish the city sat atop an extensive underground network of train lines. I don’t ride BART every day, so I don’t know that this is out of the ordinary. I’m guessing it is, but perhaps not as bad as rainy days can be for the system: At 8:30, our East Bay-bound train took six minutes to get tp 16th street. Jerking its way toward Civic Center, which it arrived at much more slowly than normal. Then it got held while the operator walked through all the cars trying to locate a problem with the brakes.

All told: Where a 10-minute ride would’ve been normal turned into about 20. Despite all of the this, I still wish the city sat atop an extensive underground network of train lines.

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