SFist: Free BART Tix

Kate

Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:16:23 -0800

Hey, that reminds me. I signed up months ago for a free BART ticket from either 511.org or commute.org... must have "gotten lost in the shuffle"

MattyMatt

Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:57:56 -0800

That's actually not a bad idea: hand them out at toll booths on the bridges.

J

Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:50:33 -0800

Well, it started off as chaos with folks swarming around the poor guy sent to hand out the free $5 BART tickets. Some lady screamed "Stop touching me!!!" and that seemed to give everyone a clue that a new system was needed before a catastrophe occurred. A walkway was used as a queue, and folks relatively peacefully lined up for the free BART ticket. Did they reach their target audience? Doubt it ... maybe they should've handed them out at freeway offramps or something.

Seven

Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:09:46 -0800

Is it worth $1.50 and a 80 minutes roundtrip walk/riding the unpredictable N-Judah for a free $5 BART ticket? And then there will probably be a long line to wait. No thanks.

Kevin

Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:03:34 -0800

And here's what will happen: the word will spread up to Sixth and Market and the TL and all of the freeloaders will flock down to JHP and, like pigeons on a pile of stale bread chunks, will swoop, stomp, and shove their way to nab a BART ticket they will later sell outside of the station. There goes our money: again. Why not just burn the shit?