Restrooms have reopened at BART’s Montgomery Street and Lake Merritt stations in San Francisco and Oakland, the latest reopening of facilities that had been closed since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
BART officials announced the reopening Tuesday of the underground restrooms, which now have attendants who will be there during all hours that the stations are open.
The transit agency closed restrooms at 10 of its subterranean stations following the 2001 terrorist attacks but reopened them at the Powell Street station in San Francisco and the 19th Street station in Oakland this February.
Since then, BART officials say the Powell facility has had an average of 212 people using the restrooms there. The 19th Street station restroom has had an average of 110 daily users.
The next restrooms slated for reopening are at the Downtown Berkeley and Embarcadero stations, followed by the 12th Street Oakland, Civic Center, 16th Street Mission and 24th Street Mission stations.
Will they also supply clean needles ?
I was a paramedic in the field in Alameda County for many years. Fun Fact!!! All BART stations also have a jail cell to hold bad people til PD can arrive. BART PD does not transport to jail, so they have these facilities to keep bad actors secure til city PD arrives.
Also, unless you want some sort of communicable disease, BART bathrooms are comparable to a latrine in Islamabad or Calcutta. Disgusting.
I used one of the restrooms at Orinda Station yesterday. It was perfectly fine. That said, I haven’t been to either Islamabad or Calcutta to compare.
Just in time for the Hepatitis A breakout swirling through the Castro.
I think you mean the Monkeypox superspreader event like the gay kinkfest in Belgium which was the international launching point for the virus which is now in California. Watch in the coming month, tons of infections that may not be reported by the left-wing mainstream media for fear of repercussions to the gay community. Hide the info, sweep it under the carpet, no one will know. The power of the media is enormous and is 95% slanted in favor of liberalism. The CDC issued a warning 3 weeks ago to the LGBTQI community about monkeypox but was not reported in the mainstream media.
BART’s Unsafe shoot up sites for the druggies…
I am so relieved! I have been missing a place to shoot up heroin, store my stroller full of garbage, and enjoy human excrement stained walls and door handles. BART really does rhyme with a certain smell we all know.
Why bother? The entire station is a bathroom already.
The restrooms are Monkeypok’s super spreader sites, if you know what I mean.
I do
Can you imagine being an attendant in those bathrooms? It would be horrific.
The real reason they reopened them is so the homeless have a place to do drugs and sleep their comedowns away.
Did they have a “ribbon” cutting ceremony?
At my age, I am no longer able to wait 21 years to use the toilet.
Great now bums will have a place to have sex, shoot up, and pass out. Another place for the BART janitors not to clean while they nap on the job; while getting undeserved overtime.