September 10, 2007
Happy Birfday BART
Tomorrow BART celebrates 35 years of hauling your asses around. Revenue service began on 9/11 in 1972. Since then, according to BART Board President Lynette Sweet, BART has continued to "carry the Bay Area through good times and bad...[w]e were there to keep the economy moving when the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake knocked out the Bay Bridge, and most recently when the MacArthur Maze connector collapsed." But most important of all, BART has also helped countless of horny creeps achieve orgasm on the (in)famous last car. All for a low, low price.
Speaking of which, how often do they clean the carpets on a BART train?
Still, it's a better ride than MUNI. Happy 35th, BART!
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Happy Birthday BART!
I would like to see them put some plastic seats in the trains ... the bed bugs stories and other unmentionables that stain those seats are gross.
BART claims they're at least trying out a new non-carpet floor covering, which is already showing up on some cars. (Although based on the above, maybe they should try it on the LAST car first...)
Go BART! It's your birthday!
I second that comment. BART give yourself the birthday gift that stops giving (i.e. mysterious stains, and bugs-ick!). Plastic seats are where it's at. C'mon, all the other big cities are doing it.
Indeed. I echo those sentiments.
The new plastic/vinyl floors are much better than the "stain"-absorbing carpets.
Do the NY Subways have carpets?
No.
Plastic seats are way healthier too.....
Cleanliness is next to ...
In the end we all got screwed out of the "Extra-wide form rubber seat" that BART shows off in this video about the system, circa 1968:
http://www.archive.org/details/along_the_way