Morning Transit Travails

[kanin]

Walk out to the bus stop this morning and took a seat beside the kid with the 48" x 36" science fair poster (poor kid!). We wait a bit, the bus arrives about 10 minutes late. Not awful but I know it'll be enough to make me miss my BART connection. After the kid struggles up with his awkward poster I walk on and hold my Translink up to pay.

Comments

i feel your pain.

[cinderpie]

ack! the worst! and why do the machines always give you the weirdest form of change they can?

i got into a yelling match once with a BART station security guy over a QUARTER: i needed to add fare, but only had a $20, so i walked out to get change, change machines were broken, and no one was in the info booth. he threatened to give me a ticket for fare evasion. he told me i should have walked to the other end of the station.

in any case, it's true, the system is not set up to encourage people to use transit - the system will never be truly successful if it continues to work this way. BOO!

Re: i feel your pain.

[kanin]

Thank you! What to do?? I guess if I were a more active citizen I would complain to my local BART/MUNI commissioners... But instead I will just complain on my blog. :) Talk to you later sweetie!

[amojojo]

Why *aren't* there any $5 -> dollar coins machines in the stations? Makes no sense.

Civic Center is, in my experience, the worst. The ticket machines for BART won't even take credit cards, debit only. Aauuuuughh.