Comments on: Manners — Muni vs. BART

By: Roger A

Roger A — Mon, 17 May 2010 03:38:29 +0000

So much for “To Serve and Protect”…

If it was a BART cop, he might as well have gone up and shot the rude rider you speak of, in the back….

By: Regular Reader

Regular Reader — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:07:56 +0000

I respectfully submit this counter-comment, found on SFIst

“Relevant Facebook Status of the Day, Via E.K.: ‘Dear BART a-holes: When you see a sweaty pregnant woman on a crowded train checking her bloodsugar while trying to balance her bags, standing up, it would be polite to offer her your seat.’”
(http://sfist.com/2009/10/26/relevant_facebook_status_update_of_14.php):

Manners lack on all forms of public transit. Frankly, they just lack these days, period.

Oh and I have to add, my cube-mate – a BART regular – saw a lady “pop a squat” and pee on the seat directly in front of her during her weekday morning commute. At least MUNI seats can be hosed down!!

By: Basel

Basel — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:41:25 +0000

Hi, the first seven (7) categories on your MUNI list occur on BART too. It depends upon the time and location. Imagine a wolf pack of high school kids in the afternoon in the Richmond or Hayward area. The activities we abhor are repeated daily; it’s just when and where we cross paths.

By: driver

driver — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:39:43 +0000

BART riders can be just as rude, but I think the commute crowd has a tendency to be tamer. I have seen people block doors, get in fights, a crazy dude hack up a garbage bag with a razor blade. I’ve seen guys drink open beer like the BART is a bar car, watch a non-deaf guy beg for money like he’s deaf. I’ve seen people urinate on the platform, attempt to spit water on the third rail until I stopped him. I ask myself “why?” on that one. Darwinism, yanno. People talk loudly on cell phones until we go under the bay and then there are the select few who continue talking even though it’s a dead zone. I was at the Bayfair station when someone boarding the train pushed another man down the stairs. The list goes on and one. Public transportation has a key word – public.

As far as my dog sitting on the seat? I wouldn’t let her in a million years. The seats are nasty. I seldom sit on the seats. I wish someone from a lab would culture that black gak plastering the seats and find out what kind of bacteria it is and turn it into the CDC so we could condemn the cloth seats and get them outta there.