Your place to share stories on and off the bus.
Photo by Tangobaby
This short week, as usual, is a mix bag of the good (puppies on the bus!), the gross (taking a leak on the T), and the I-Don’t-Know-What (hope you paid your fare this week).
I spent a good while looking at Tangobaby’s photo above, trying to figure out how she took this beautiful picture. Enjoy the pics and have a good weekend, everybody.
Photo by Flickr user Brittney
Photo by Flickr user Mr. Read
While we await the flood of BART stories that is sure to overtake us at any moment now (;)), we’re going to treat Friday the same way we do over at Muni Diaries: with a collection of some of our favorite photos from the BART Photos Flickr pool. Enjoy, and have a safe weekend.
*Remember that Monday marks the first day of a schedule adjustment for BART.
Photo by Flickr user GrimReynard
Photo by Flickr user Troy McClure SF
Photo by Flickr user echoes71
Photo by Flickr user napolifd
Photo by Flickr user moppet65535
Photo by Flickr user itsolivia
Want your photos included in the next roundup, or anywhere on BART Diaries? Tag them to the BART Photos group on Flickr, and we’ll consider it.
Photo by Flickr user emilychang
Is riding for free the second-oldest profession? Sometimes, it sure seems so. I’ll admit, I dabbled in it a bit as a kid. But something happened along the way, when I decided to stop acting for the sake of action.
In any case, SF Weekly checks in with MTA’s crackdown on fare-cheats, and, according to Judson True, netting around 100 offenders per day is a sign of success.
Photo by Flickr user mary jane watson*
We emphasize likelypossibly. We’ll report further when we know more.
For now, here’s KTVU’s story.
SF Appeal’s story here.
*Stock photo – not from news photos of the accident today
Brittney Gilbert over at the awesome CBS5 Eye on Blogs snapped this picture on BART. She noticed the tattoo on her subject:
His tattoo says Shit in cursive with a teardrop dotting the i.
Hmm.
Send us your BART stories or photos at bartdiaries@gmail.com. And be sure and tag your Flickr photos to the BART Photos group.
Photo by Flickr user echoes71
Hi everyone,
Though BART Diaries was begun by the same people who started and moderate Muni Diaries, we’re a whole new beast. We’re about as different as the systems we write about. Sure, Muni and BART have the same goal in mind — moving people for a still relatively low fee from Point A to Point B. But anyone who’s taken a ride (or been taken for a ride, as it were) on both systems knows the vast contrast between the two systems.
So here on BART Diaries, we’ll need to reach out every now and then, to remind you that you make this site what it is. It is your stories, your photos, your news tips, that will fill the posts here.
On that note, we’d like to announce our very own place on Flickr for BART photos. This is a place you can tag your BART photos for potential use as a photo diary, or to be considered for “stock photos,” the more generic pictures we use to enhance almost every post.
So keep on sending your stories to us (bartdiaries@gmail.com) and be sure and tag your Flickr photos to the BART Photos group. Help us spread the word, out to the ends of the lines (talking about you, Millbrae, Richmond, Pittsburg, Dublin and Pleasanton, and Fremont), and let’s shape this into the awesome site it has the potential to be. Happy commuting and storytelling!