Is your city's subway system as bad as mine? (1 Viewer)

[SaintsInDome2006]

Uh this doesn’t sound like a metro transit probl em, this sounds like a municipal social policies problem.

 

[Insein]

SEPTA? 

Wow - what a horrible acronym (septic)

South Eastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority

 

[Osaurus]

I remember getting to Bridge and Pratt on a bus to catch a train down to the Gallery back in the day.  Isn’t it called the Frankford Transportation Center these days?  

 

[Epic Problem]

BART also infamously had large groups of teens (40-60) running onto the trains and attacking passengers and robbbibg them.  There were numerous instances of this, but BART intentionally withheld the information from the public and refused to disclose the surveillance video so that the public wouldn't reach racial stereotypes.  Nice subway system there.

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Where have you gone Bernard Goetz 

Our subways turns its lonely eyes to you

 

[Eephus]

Maybe @Scoresman was right after all.

My daughter and I took BART to the Warriors game last night.  The Oakland Coliseum has an above-ground station about a quarter mile from Oracle Arena and whatever the A's stadium is called these days.  Passengers have to leave the train and go downstairs to exit the station.  It was about 45 minutes before tip-off so the train and station were pretty crowded.  When the train doors opened, we followed two unusually tall women down on the opposite site of the platform to get to the stairs.   Suddenly a crazy guy stood up as the women were passing them, he swore at them and punched one of them on the side of her head. 

We helped the women downstairs to the ticket booth.  My daughter had snapped a picture of the attacker and gave it to the victim and the police.  Four BART Police patrol cars were there within a couple of minutes.  We checked in with the women at halftime.  The guy was arrested but the victim was still at the ER with concussion symptoms and waiting to get her jaw x-rayed.

I'm pretty accustomed to crazy people getting in your face but the unprovoked violence was shocking.  It all happened so fast and right in front of us.

 

[Scoresman]

Maybe @Scoresman was right after all.

My daughter and I took BART to the Warriors game last night.  The Oakland Coliseum has an above-ground station about a quarter mile from Oracle Arena and whatever the A's stadium is called these days.  Passengers have to leave the train and go downstairs to exit the station.  It was about 45 minutes before tip-off so the train and station were pretty crowded.  When the train doors opened, we followed two unusually tall women down on the opposite site of the platform to get to the stairs.   Suddenly a crazy guy stood up as the women were passing them, he swore at them and punched one of them on the side of her head. 

We helped the women downstairs to the ticket booth.  My daughter had snapped a picture of the attacker and gave it to the victim and the police.  Four BART Police patrol cars were there within a couple of minutes.  We checked in with the women at halftime.  The guy was arrested but the victim was still at the ER with concussion symptoms and waiting to get her jaw x-rayed.

I'm pretty accustomed to crazy people getting in your face but the unprovoked violence was shocking.  It all happened so fast and right in front of us.

In the month or so since I've posted this, I've seen a homeless woman's ####, had to physically leave a crowded train car due to strong vomit smell, and have seen two fights (verbal, but may have escalated after I exited).  BART's always been bad, but I don't remember it being this consistently awful.