Posted Jul 26, 2019, 7:00 PM
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Two more BART stations are getting elevator attendants
By Filipa Ioannou Published 12:25 pm PDT, Thursday, July 25, 2019
Over the years, BART has tried a variety of strategies to keep people from behaving badly in station elevators (including one memorable poster campaign in which sad, anthropomorphized elevators dolefully declared, "I'm not a bathroom").
But the most successful seems to be a pilot program, launched at the Civic Center and Powell Street stations April 30, 2018, stationing attendants in the elevators. The results were so positive, the BART board voted to double the number of stations with elevator attendants at a Thursday meeting.
The program led to a drop in reports of elevators being "intentionally soiled" and improved elevator conditions for people who use wheelchairs, people with strollers and seniors, according to Assistant Superintendent of System Service David Coggshall . . . .
"All Downtown SF stations will have clean, drug free, and safe elevators," BART wrote on Twitter. "This is one of our most successful programs to date for improving the BART experience."
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https://www.sfgate.com/travel/resour...-14135435.php#
Who woulda thought?
Now if some brilliant BART manager only comes up with the idea of having a couple of BART cops continuously patrolling downtown stations, including platforms, BART might once again be a safe and secure transit system. Who knows? They might even evict homeless people sprawled on the floors of stations nodding on heroin or just drunk.
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