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This Is Why Everyone on BART Hates You
SF Weekly ^ | Wed., Apr. 17 2013 | Erin Sherbert

Posted on 04/21/2013 6:21:00 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: nickcarraway

Sounds like you need to be kicking some ass instead of crying on the net!


21 posted on 04/21/2013 6:44:43 PM PDT by Bibman (Tea Party since 1976)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

I use public transportation every day. Tyne and wear metro (Newcastle England) you wouldn’t believe the things I’ve seen. Last week I witnessed a brawl between Sunderland and Newcastle fans days before the football match. I saw a ticket inspector get stabbed by a chav without a ticket. I once got onto a metro car on the way to Sunderland that was full of Liverpool supporters on the way to the match against Sunderland, they were all very intoxicated, pissing on the floor, chanting, drinking, hoying bottles out the window, it was madness. The drunks I encounter, the poor hygiene, the rude people, the smackheads, the women getting undressed it’s crazy. I could write a book about my experiences on the Tyne and Wear metro. I’ve often thought about getting a car, but I’m afraid I would be missing something exciting


22 posted on 04/21/2013 6:47:55 PM PDT by yank in the UK ( A liberal mocking Christianity. I asked "why don't you mock Islam?" he replied "Muslims are violent)
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To: Fai Mao

London was the most convenient to me.


23 posted on 04/21/2013 6:48:06 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Steely Tom

The author forgets to mention all the times he sees the Mayor, SF District Attorney, and Chief of Police riding to work with him on the BARF line”<

The odds of that happening are about the same as you sitting between Nancy Pelosi and Moochelle Obama at the Local Obamacare Clinic while waiting for the Third World Trained Physician Assistant to see you.


24 posted on 04/21/2013 6:48:52 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Compliance with Tyranny is Treason...)
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To: Amberdawn
I’ll bet the German subways are good though. There seems to be some discipline there, and I’m not being sarcastic.

The service gets worse the farther east you go. ;)

25 posted on 04/21/2013 6:49:12 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: nickcarraway

Spot on....

I was going to add they smell like Shiite but, the author had essence of his rant attenuated and peaked perfectly.


26 posted on 04/21/2013 6:49:40 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Never been to SF so I can’t say how it is on BART but I’ve had good experiences in Chicago, DC, and Atlanta on public transit. However, back in the 80s, pre-Giuliani clean-up, I considered riding NYC transit and decided the odors emanating from the entry was not drawing me down there.


27 posted on 04/21/2013 6:50:24 PM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: SamAdams76

“It is however entertaining to ride NYC public transportation, “

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Not if you’re a woman on a crowded vehicle.

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28 posted on 04/21/2013 6:51:17 PM PDT by Mears
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29 posted on 04/21/2013 6:53:40 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: martin_fierro

Strap meet sharp knife...


30 posted on 04/21/2013 6:57:34 PM PDT by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: T-Bird45

DC is pretty good. New York Subways have definitely improved since the early 90s.


31 posted on 04/21/2013 7:01:59 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

The people mover in Detroit is pretty good but it doesn’t go anywhere and nobody rides it.


32 posted on 04/21/2013 7:02:19 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: cripplecreek

Switzerland’s mass transit is awesome.

Of course, their army guys ride on it too, so.....


33 posted on 04/21/2013 7:24:04 PM PDT by bicyclerepair (0bama is a POS, with all due respect to excrement.)
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To: cripplecreek
The people mover in Detroit is pretty good but it doesn’t go anywhere and nobody rides it.

The one that goes from one end of the airport to the other is pretty cool.

Beats standing in the lobby and having to listen to CNN.

34 posted on 04/21/2013 7:32:44 PM PDT by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

My grandson and I took the train from San Diego to Disney about 5 years ago. First time I had been on a train since my college days. Actually quite pleasant - but maybe because we were the only two in Business class.

I would walk before I rode a bus anywhere in any city I’ve been in though.


35 posted on 04/21/2013 7:34:26 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: nickcarraway

One time when I rode BART to my summer job in SF, during law school, I sat across from an elderly man with a drippy nose. The snot hung from his nose straight down, around 10 inches long, and dangled there. It went up and down like a yo-yo, stretching and shrinking, as the car moved. It was the most fascinatingly repulsive thing I have ever seen. I did not have a tissue to give him, and nobody else noticed or cared.

I love my car. If Obama wants me to use public transportation, he will have to pry the steering wheel out of my cold, dead hands.


36 posted on 04/21/2013 7:40:59 PM PDT by married21
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To: bicyclerepair

“Switzerland’s mass transit is awesome.”

Odd that you should mention that because that was also my experience.

The London subways were OK but I will never forget the smell - and these were NOT bums. The people were courteous, though.


37 posted on 04/21/2013 7:46:57 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is v?ery late in the day.")
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To: nickcarraway; martin_fierro
I was riding on BART behind this young couple, and the guy took out his "grill" out of his mouth and showed it to his girl and she tried it out and put it in her mouth.

Nothing says "love" like sharing your grill with your babe. :-)

38 posted on 04/21/2013 7:49:52 PM PDT by CounterCounterCulture
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To: cripplecreek

The mass transit in Atlanta, what little there is, is amazingly safe and clean. It is run by people who actually appreciate the gift from the Feds, and they rule it with an iron hand - zero tolerance for ANY crap. No eating. No drinking. No annoying. And plenty of undercover who will arrest without warning and they mean it. I’ve seen it myself more than once.

The bad news is, eventually you have to get OFF of it...


39 posted on 04/21/2013 7:54:46 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is v?ery late in the day.")
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To: CounterCounterCulture; martin_fierro

He did that in front of you and did offer to let you try, too? How rude?


40 posted on 04/21/2013 7:54:48 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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