Embarcadero Station - 2/2/10
What is up with the escalators in the station? Hopefully they have been fixed or turned on by now. Both escalators on the west side of the station are not working (at 5:45 a.m.) Then the street escalator on the north side (Front St) isn't working. Are the station agents asleep in their booth? Come on people, you have a job to do - turn on the frickin escalators when the stations open in the morning. I don't think that is too much to ask. I find it hard to believe that three escalators in the same station are broken at the same time.
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I don't find it hard to
I don't find it hard to believe. In fact, I am often shocked when the escalators are working at Embarcadero, particularly the northwest one that goes to street level on Drumm (by the cable car stop). I will admit, though, I cannot help but smile seeing particularly out of shape people puffing their way up the stairs. Probably for the best.
Maybe BART is just helping people reach their New Year's resolution goals.
I think that would be a great
I think that would be a great budget cutting idea for BART. First, they won't have to pay for the extra electricity for running the escalators. Then with thinner passengers, they can fit more people in train cars and use less power to drive the trains. I like it! I wonder if they would give me a percentage of the profits?
Particularly the elderly and
Particularly the elderly and disabled?!?
The Post Street escalator is off/broken for the evening commute at Montgomery Station about once every month to 45 days, though the SA says I'm wrong. Since I'm the one who then has to walk down to the Sansome escalator, I'm pretty sure I'm right...
Transit needs to be a little more user friendly; not everyone is a 21-year-old jock! And yet we still travel to our jobs and shopping...
User-friendly? The "elderly
User-friendly? The "elderly and disabled" get reduced-priced (less than half price!) BART and MUNI tickets that the rest of us subsidize, they are the reason that BART installed fare-evader-friendly elevators outside the paid area, they have access to BART's paratransit service and they have a designated seating area on the trains next to the doors. Maybe if there weren't so many accommodations already made for you, there would be more money to keep the escalators working for all of us.
Yeah, those goddamn old
Yeah, those goddamn old people. All they is freeload and take up space.
Nevermind that it was their tax dollars that built the thing in the
first place.
They've received it back
They've received it back many, many times over as I subsidize their nonpayment of property taxes under Prop 13.
Besides, my current tax dollars are building the new Bay Bridge span. Under your hypo, people not now paying taxes shouldn't be able to drive on it when and if it finally opens, even if they pay their tolls. That's ludicrous. But it is also ludicrous to suggest that those of us paying for the new span now get two lanes dedicated solely to us and our tolls will forever be only $2.
That's only true if they own
That's only true if they own a house.
Comparing the Bay Bridge to BART is what's ludicrous. The discount is about AGE,
and I don't see any senior discount for crossing the bridge. If giving seniors
a break is so distasteful to you just wait a few years--a whole new perspective
just may be around the corner.
No, actually, I won't have a
No, actually, I won't have a new perspective, because I am frugal and smart with the little money I make (that doesn't get swallowed up by the cost of living out here) and I don't expect others to take care of me when I am older.
But that's a completely different topic, and this is a forum about BART, so we'll just have to agree to disagree.
worse than this is when the
worse than this is when the elcalators are running in the wrong direction. i see this occasionally at montgomery. the three people that exit the station between 4:30 and 5:30 get to ride the escalator up to sansome street, but the thousands of people trying to get down into the station have to take the 2 foot wide staircase.
Th best part of that funnel
Th best part of that funnel you are describing is when a person refuses to take the escalator and is determined to walk up those stairs...those that have entered BART here know what I am talking about