And today may break that record as well:

BART customers shatter previous ridership records

A week ago a woman behind me at Downtown Berkeley proceeded to clip her nails while waiting for the train. I realize it's going to get cleaned up and it's not like anyone was eating...but ew. Why would you make a mess for someone else? Are you really that lazy? I really don't understand why people clip their nails in public. Do it by a trash can at home!

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/10/27/BAO81ABJTF.DTL&tsp=1

The commute's gonna be SO FUN until whenever. Most importantly, though, no one was seriously hurt.

Way to go Board of Directors. Bunch of dumbfucks if you ask me.

http://wap.ktvu.com/wap/news/text.jsp?sid=242&nid=1779697&cid=5038&scid=-1&ith=13&title=Local%20News

After 4 and a half months of extortion the BART Workers gave up $100 million dollars in work rules and benefits. Then Dorothy wrote a letter saying that was enough and all workers would be protected against any more cuts, especially layoffs.

She lied and is now trying to wiggle out of her letter by saying that what she said is not what she said and what she meant was not what we understood.

Last night, October 22, 2009, an informational meeting was held at Antioch's Black Diamond Middle School. Some of the Panel Members in attendance were BART Board Member Joel Keller, Contra Costa County Supervisor Federal Glover, Antioch Council Member Reginald Moore, and several others.

I was amazed how clean the stairs were last night when I was walking down the stairs after disembarking the last train of the night. Some guy with his leg in a cast urinated all over them about a week ago because he couldn't make it down the stairs to the bathroom. Pretty disgusting. He did it in front of everybody.

You guys play great R&B while you work too. I always find it uplifting when I get off the train and hear your music.

I'm a new rider to BART and to the west coast - but I've lived in Jersey (NJ transit), NYC and Boston - before moving out here and am pretty familiar with transit systems...still, I find BART totally perplexing! If anyone can help me out here, it would be great because I've read all the pamphlets and BART info on the official site and the wikipedia page for BART and I am still a bit perplexed. I am commuting between mission in SF and Dublin/Pleasanton, a 5.65 ride each way.

Sooooo I get on a train (still on said train, actually); last car of an eight car train, and I notice the door to the TO nook is open.

"Is someone in there?" I say to myself. "There's gotta be someone in there."

I get up and look: Nope. Empty.

"What should I do? Should I call the TO? Should I close the door? Should I go sit in the booth and take OMG IM DRIVING TEH BART TRAIN LOLOLOLOL!!! pics of myself?"

I don't want to get arrested for being curious and slightly amusing (to me anyway); I just closed the door.

What would You have done?

I made the switch from the stupid magnetic cards, that demagnetize far too easily, to the "hassle-free" EZ Rider card about a year now and I wish I could say it has made my life easier...

would like to know how the translink is working for commuters before I make the change.

Thought I'd have a nice quiet Monday morning commute today. Instead I ended up sitting next to a woman on her cell phone who kept calling various bus services to find a way to Cash Creek Casino. Then she got interrupted by a call--apparently someone had busted her car for her radio (??? Do those go for much now?)

So then when she's done moaning and griping about that, she gets back on the phone with the bus service (who I'm sure doesn't care why she put them on hold and probably hung up after she did so). I only had peace at Lake Merritt and in the underground tunnel.

I got into a train heading for Daly City and waited for the doors to close. Saw two people try to make opposite doors on the same car--saw one woman stop just prior to the door closing while the dude SHOVED his way (as in, not caught as the doors closing, but jammed himself in the gap) through a door.

I thought for a moment that if this meant this train was going to be taken out of service or the "Door Not Working" sticker would have to be slapped on, I was going to be reeeeeeeally mad considering it was Friday.

Working on a student research project that involves and will address bad behavior on BART.

A Fremont bound train arrived Montgomery but stopped short. The operator must have been in manual mode and she stopped with half of the door of the last car (the door I boarded from) off the platform (half of the door was passed the end gate). A BART tech witnessed it all happen from inside the train in the last car and ratted her out and the train was put out of service at Embarcadero causing a cluster fuck and delay. Just out of curiousity, what ended up happening to the train since it was sitting there without an operator, and any idea if the operator will be fired or suspended?