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With a cool $5.4 million in new state bond money, according to the Chronicle, "BART will upgrade and expand its security camera system" to the likes of which you've never seen before! Dangerous sounding "smart cameras" will litter BART cars, stations, parking lots, and even inside of the Transbay Tube.
The new surveillance system will be "helpful in preventing crime, improving emergency response and helping police identify suspects," according to BART General Manager Dorothy Dugger. But more importantly, what will they look like? That's what we want to know.
This goes along with BART's addition need for "$250 million of security needs" -- for such serenity-inducing devices as chemical, biological, and radiological detectors as well as bomb-sniffing puppies -- to help you feel calm and secure while BARTing it to Civic Center or Orinda.
What's more, this will put an end to, um, those of you riding the last car. What was a time-honored tradition on BART might soon be a thing of the past. So: cover it up, pervs.
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Seriously hott Bentham/Foucault reference there. Nice.
I think the preferred nomenclature is "hottt"
I live in the Outer Sunset. What is this "BART" thing of which you speak? Oh yeah, it's that distant subway I help subsidize every month when I purchase my Muni fastpass.
BART gets a cut off your Fast Pass only if you actualy USE it on BART. That's per ride, not per month.
As for the last car of the trains- unfortunately I've never seen anything juicy in one of them.
Are they full of flashers and crack heads or something? Sorry I've missed out on the view of any drama.
I agree that a subway extension to the western end of the city is sorely needed.
But I don't know if you can make the case that SF is deprived of BART's largesse in general. We have eight stations, rivaled only by Oakland's eight. And our station-to-terminal service for SFO is a dream. That didn't cost peanuts to build.
Part of the $45/mo Muni fastpass price covers the cost Muni has to pay BART each month. So yes, the westside fastpass buyers do subsidize BART. Think of it this way, if those on the westside could purchase "naked" (no BART) Muni fastpasses, then the price of a normal "combined" Muni fastpass would have to increase to compensate for the lost BART funds. So I'm either subsidizing BART or subsidizing downtown/Mission fastpass holders, depending on your perspective.
West Side Wacko: get yer facts straight and stop being so selfish.
http://www.bart.gov/docs/DRAFT%20FY08%20SRTP_CIP.txt
http://www.sfmta.com/cms/rbudget/documents/FY200520FastPassonBART.pdf
$0.97/trip is less than what other agencies are paying for other services, and well less than the full retail value of such a trip.
Now let's assume for a moment that you're correct (you, however, are not). Let's say that MUNI offered a discount to those who didn't ever want to use their FastPass on BART. Okay. At best that'll merely encourage more people to use MUNI instead of BART. Where's that extra capacity gonna come from? Your so-called subsidy benefits you by providing additional MUNI capacity.