4th of July
I had a harrowing experience last night at the Embarcadero Bart station. My family (including 3 small childern) and I caught BART at the Embarcadero station after watching the fireworks on the pier. The underground platform was so overcrowded that the people coming down the escalator literally had no place to go. There was a panic stricken female BART employee who was working there all alone. I asked her (along with many other people) to turn off the down escalator to prevent more people from coming down to an already dangerously overcrowded platform. At first she was unwilling to turn off the escalator with people on it for fear that it would lurch forward and cause the people on it to fall off. Ultimately, when she realized that people on the platform would spill over the sides onto the BART tracks, she turned off the escalator. I'm not blaming her; I believe that she did the best she could given her circumstances. What I would like to know is why BART was not better prepared with more employees to monitor and direct the crowds from the 4th of July festivities safely onto the platform at the Embarcadero station. This was truly a dangerous situation and BART was very, very fortunate that no one was killed. I felt blessed to make it home in one piece. After this experience, I will not venture into the City again to watch the 4th of July fireworks.
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Two words: "Hoiliday Pay" On
Two words: "Hoiliday Pay" On holidays, BART runs on a Sunday schedule i.e. skeleton crew. Less hours and fewer employees. They dont want to pay more employees holiday pay so they expect more from less. Forward your complaint to the BART Board of Directors in person, writing on online.
I don't get why BART isn't
I don't get why BART isn't better at events either. BART sure spends a ton of money on advertising to get passengers to ride BART to and from events and then no one can board a train so why no additional coordination with all the money spent on advertising?
BART needs to wake-up and step up their safety and service for events. I agree with the poster above: it is a major disaster waiting to happen and it will happen. More times than not, particularly on Fridays, I thank my lucky stars just for getting off the train at my destination safely.
Giants games get out of hand too; hasn't been so bad this year yet. Last year was awful.
I think holiday pay is a much cheaper solution than a wrongful death or personal injury lawsuit.
What commonsense said. If
What commonsense said. If people have to work on holidays, they get paid time and a half (and before the typical anti-government rants, it's the same law for *all* California employees). BART doesn't want to pay the money, which seems strange because the cost would be minimal when you consider how many extra tens of thousands of passengers there were.
And Imagine if the employees
And Imagine if the employees were on Break!! OMG .. I can't believe workers still get breaks.. If I had employees, I don't want to have to pay them to be on break and overtime..
And who's going to help me when they're on break! ugh..
LOL. Sarcasm