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Old 01-14-2013, 10:15 AM
 
Location: Los Altos Hills, CA
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Old 01-14-2013, 11:23 AM
 
Location: San Diego, California Republic
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This is somewhat amusing just in a C-D sort of way. I remember mentioning in another thread that BART is at capacity and some thought I was nuts.
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Old 01-14-2013, 02:44 PM
 
Location: Police State
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This is somewhat amusing just in a C-D sort of way. I remember mentioning in another thread that BART is at capacity and some thought I was nuts.
They clearly haven't seen cattle car commutes for themselves. Have you seen a SF/Daly City bound train by the time it gets to Oakland? Yikes.
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Old 01-14-2013, 02:46 PM
 
Location: Los Altos Hills, CA
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Yeah I hate taking BART from Oakland to SF, its always packed by the time it gets to the town.
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Old 01-14-2013, 03:00 PM
 
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This is somewhat amusing just in a C-D sort of way. I remember mentioning in another thread that BART is at capacity and some thought I was nuts.
Yeah, there was somebody who thought BART was a waste of money because "nobody rode it."
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Old 01-14-2013, 03:35 PM
 
Location: Oakland, CA USA
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Even the Fremont to Richmond line (which doesn't go through the Transbay Tube to SF) is getting somewhat busy in the mornings - 8 cars SRO by Bayfair. Four years ago they used to be 6 car trains and you could find seats in the middle cars at Bayfair.
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Old 01-14-2013, 03:55 PM
 
Location: Los Altos Hills, CA
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Perhaps we need another line that runs along 580 from Castro Valley up to and through Oakland?
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Old 01-14-2013, 04:03 PM
 
Location: South Korea
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They need to only run 10 car trains at rush hour, especially on the main lines through SF, and increase frequency a bit. I know they've been gradually cutting back on both of those things over the last 6 years, as well as on maintenance and cleaning. Ridership is probably going up because more people are moving to the East Bay, squeezed out of SF.
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Old 01-14-2013, 04:04 PM
 
Location: Lafayette, CA
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SF-Richmond Train at 5PM. Enough said.
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Old 01-14-2013, 04:07 PM
 
Location: South Korea
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Coming home at 5pm to Oakland I never had trouble getting a seat at Montgomery. But going to SF on BART in the morning was always a drag, the trains would be standing room only, zero seats available. Probably a lot of people go into work around 730AM to 8 and leave later than I would, more like 6 to 8pm. I think they run fewer trains after 6pm than before it, and a few times I had to work late and left around 6 or 7 it was always really bad going back to Oakland compared to 5pm.
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