On 15/05/2015 17:21, Christopher A. Lee wrote:

On Fri, 15 May 2015 15:48:26 +0100, e27002 aurora
wrote:
[...]
SF Muni is fascinating system. But, I find it hard to consider myself
a fan.

BART is far from unique,

But I stopped using them out of disgust when I lived in Union City
(first stop out of Fremont, on the East Bay).

I had used the train to go to Bakersfield at the South end of the
Central Valley, several times.

The first BART train on Saturday from Fremont connected with the
Amtrak train at Richmond, for a pleasant and comfortable Amtrak ride
the rest of the way.

But one morning nobody bothered to open up the Union City station, so
the BART train came and went.

So I drove via I-580 and I-5. which was more tiring, less convenient
and less comfortable.

And I never used BART again when I lived there.

Seems a bit petulant.

On Fri, 15 May 2015 23:03:41 +0100, Mizter T
wrote:


On 15/05/2015 17:21, Christopher A. Lee wrote:

On Fri, 15 May 2015 15:48:26 +0100, e27002 aurora
wrote:
[...]
SF Muni is fascinating system. But, I find it hard to consider myself
a fan.

BART is far from unique,

But I stopped using them out of disgust when I lived in Union City
(first stop out of Fremont, on the East Bay).

I had used the train to go to Bakersfield at the South end of the
Central Valley, several times.

The first BART train on Saturday from Fremont connected with the
Amtrak train at Richmond, for a pleasant and comfortable Amtrak ride
the rest of the way.

But one morning nobody bothered to open up the Union City station, so
the BART train came and went.

So I drove via I-580 and I-5. which was more tiring, less convenient
and less comfortable.

And I never used BART again when I lived there.

Seems a bit petulant.

Indeed, but it can be very annoying to be severely inconvenienced by a
public body that is supposed to be at one's service.

In 1975 my spouse was eight months pregnant with our first child. In
those days we lived in Hammersmith and attended Church in Roehampton.
The bus service was hourly.

As we were walking to the bus stop on our return journey our bus, an
RM, passed us. I ran and had caught it. But, the conductress would
not wait for my spouse to struggle the last 30 feet. Suddenly I saw
London Transport in a new light. That bitch will never know how much
good will she cost her employer that day.

Worth noting that Bart and Muni are not the same thing. Bart is a
multi-county heavy rail mass transit system that covers a large part
of the San Francisco bay area.

Muni is a light rail system that operates within the County of San
Francisco only.


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