OK I've rounded up the suggestions from the two posts regarding the $5 million surplus, why it should not be used for fare reductions, and other ways it could be used. I am going to post each block of points below for comments. This is your last chance for input, I currently have input from 16 different people. I plan to go to the meeting on WED JUN 16 in CONCORD. If anyone wants to attend with me, shoot me an e-mail at treobart@gmail.com.

http://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2010/news20100603b.aspx

I'll admit it, I usually ignore these announcements for community meetings. I'm generally not interested enough in what they're talking about to care. However, this time around they're going to talk about the surplus money and using it for a temporary fare reduction.

Woman lives after being run over by BART train

This happened Saturday night at the Rockridge station. All I can say is that she is one lucky woman....

At both my departure and transfer station there were random guys singing (quite badly might I add). And of course they each (there was one at each station) walk around as they sang badly.

Stupid passenger who decided first to cut in line and then decide in the doorway that she'd wait today. And then she got on the same train anyway.

Dude with glasses...I don't understand how you could listen to your music that loudly. Full on bass and lyrics coming out really clearly through your earbuds. Yeesh.

After 21 seasons, The Simpsons finally have acknowledged that we have a train system that has the same name as one of it's main characters.

The Simpsons Acknowledges BART

So last night I'm heading into SF and while waiting at BayFair I see an 8-car DBPN train with 4 of the 8 cars equipped with the fins (the last three cars in sequence). Is BART going ahead with the installation of this feature? Over the past few weeks I've been noticing more and more individual cars with them, sometimes a single car out of 9/10 configuration or like the DBPN train above with multiple cars.

We need a photo contest beginning Monday...ending Friday to submit the best annoying rider photo...post to Flickr site...who is with me?

http://www.contracostatimes.com/bay-area-news/ci_15081197

i vote for evening service to be restored to what it was, longer trains at midnight, and no new parking fees in the East Bay.

How can BART have an unexpected 5 million dollar surplus, when just last week, BART had a 10 million dollar deficit to address. Something is so not right (AS USUAL).

In the evacuation procedures the instructions for a tube emergency indicate that we are to cross over to adjacent tracks and wait for a rescue train. Will this rescue train be arriving on the same tracks we're waiting on? If so is there a designated waiting position? Basically I'm wondering how, in the event of an emergency evacuation in the tube, we avoid being run over by the train that's coming to rescue us?

Hello, BARTRagers! It's been a while since I've been on here, quite a bit going on personally and professionally, so I do apologize.

As you may know, I'm not one to gossip, especially about coworkers, but my gosh, something happened the other day that I wanted to share and get feedback from any Station Agents, Police Officers, System Service folks, or anyone who has had the pleasure of being placed in a similar circumstance.

I know that everybody says that it is a waste of time and an inconvenience to other riders, but you better take that parking receipt! I just got screwed out of $35.00 at the Orinda station. I parked in a legal space, noted the number, paid my buck at the machine, but forgot to take the receipt. When I got back to my car a few hours later there was that big fat $35.00 citation. Now with no receipt to proove I paid I am screwed. I sure would like to know how much BART makes each year on parking citations. I bet the amount exceeds what they make on buck-a-space parking. What a scam!

Every day I come across people playing music(not sounding good) loudly on their cell phones...enough already! Can I do anything to them except spit sunflower seeds at them? Seriously though...would Bart PD do anything to these guys?

when i got on the train to go home last night there wwere sunflower seed shells all over the damn floor!!! some jackass had obviously ate a whole pack and just spit the seeds on the floor where he was sitting.

what kind of tool does something like that, and what kind of wimpy passengers don't call him out for that kind of nonsense??? even if you don't want to be confrontational you could at least go to the phone and alert the train operator.