BART General Manager Bob Powers will be in Contra Costa County early Wednesday as part of his ongoing ‘Listening Tour’ to get feedback from riders.
Powers, appointed in July to be BART’s 10th general manager, launched the tour to hear about BART service and policies directly from patrons.
He will be at the Antioch BART station from 4:45 a.m. to 6:30 a.m., and then at the Pittsburg Center from 6:45 a.m. to 7:45 a.m.
After that, Powers will be available from 8 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. at the BART to Antioch transfer platform, located between the Pittsburg/Bay Point Station and Pittsburg Center.
QUESTION: If you could give feedback to the BART general manager, what would it be?
The sooner we replace all the old cars serving the Yellow Line the better. The old ones keep breaking down, going out of service, having their AC or heating go out.
Listen to this: Improve Safety.
Allow eating/drinking on platforms and on trains. MARTA can do it, so can you. Respect your riders and accommodate their needs as they see them.
That’s good humor.
Remove passed out bums from trains and stations. Increase patrols in parking garages. Continue to bring gate jumpers to justice. LSS: Return BART to the riders and people will come back.
Enforce the rules! No fare jumpers. No pan handlers. No eating and drinking on trains or platforms. Maybe if they can ENFORCE the laws people might feel safer. Protect the riders instead of the ones breaking the rules. They can replace all the old cars with new, but the new will soon be crummy too.
Enough, with the marijuana, already!
More east bound trains. The other lines have two branches running through them where the busiest and possibly the longest line have less trains, especially through the rush hour.
Could not agree more- return BART to the riders and we will come back.
Keep the bums, creeps, criminals off of BART period. STOP and PROSECUTE the fare gate jumpers to justice and follow the laws that we old school people do. Unless this happens BART is doomed.
Dramatically increase security for bikes. More security cameras, bike lockers.
I’d ask him how he plans to keep BART PD from going fetal. Between doofus directors and an unwarranted amount of oversight and a BART spokesman who doesn’t hesitate to run them down its tough business to be a BART cop.
Fact is if the cops give up and refuse to be involved in conflict BART becomes a zoo.
For the safety of passengers Keep Out the fare jumpers and bums. You know exactly who they are and it’s time to do your job. I haven’t ridden in years and don’t plan to unless this gets taken care of..
It needs to be called an “Action Tour”
15 minutes between Antioch trains during rush hour is unreasonable. It’s standing room only starting at Civic Center and most trying to board at Embarcadero can’t- no one wants to stand for 50 minutes. Bring in more trains to bridge the gap. Until the homeless situation is dealt with Bart will remain unsafe. Make room for suitcases so that those passengers don’t block the aisles or take up a extra seat- this should have been considered given Bart services 2 airports.
Please do something to alert young and able bodied people (i.e., under the age of 60) NOT to sit in priority seating!!!
Or just issue a citation for violators.
BARTPD should be riding through out. Have trash bins so that people can actually eat on the trains and not get penalized. Cuff your fare evaders and professional pan handlers with babies in tow!
Run 24 hrs! Stop raising fares to justify your expenses.
Does anyone remember the term “lip service”?
The exits out of Montgomery are horrible. BART puts n the useless new fare gate on the platform but has horrible exits and one elevator controlled by homeless for people with luggage, disabled etc,
plus one on every comment already made above. BART experience stinks and there is not enough service going enough places. Definitely too expensive.
Why 4:45-7:45 am? Pointless. Here’s a solid suggestion. Make an unannounced personal tour of your system, unprotected from 9;30pm- 12:30am. Sit with the needles and the masterbators in the back rows up against the walls. Chat with the Fare Checkers at those hours. Watch the “presence” of Bart employees at the stations at that hour. Better yet, count how many Bart “police” you see during these times. Then I’ll listen to what you have to say.
Oooh, good luck to him.