No need to mention that Uber, Sidecar and Lyft couldn't get riders if they were
as filthy as BART;
BART's four downtown San Francisco stations - Embarcadero, Montgomery, Powell and Civic Center
- take a beating, not only from the 140,000 passengers who pour through
them every weekday, but from the scores of homeless people who use them
as bedrooms, restrooms and places to hang out.
The stations are
not only the busiest but, arguably, the filthiest of the 44 in the BART
system. Commuters are forced to run a gauntlet of grime: piles of feces
and puddles of urine near the entrances, litter and discarded food on
the floors, a coating of dust and dripping ooze on the walls.
"This is the most poorly cleaned station in the Bay Area," said Stephanie Lopez,
24, a pharmacy technician, standing in Civic Center Station. She rides
BART from Pittsburg/Bay Point four days a week. "In the morning, I walk
into the stairways and there's human feces there. Sometimes it's still
there when I come back in the evening. It seems to take hours to
clean it."
By all means, let's build more light rail stations...even when they can't keep the ones they have fit for humans.
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