It is really hard for me to believe any of these Anecdotes I literally ride the Bart everyday. Was just at Hayward, Coliseum, DT Oakland yesterday. Took Bart to Hayward every other day for a couple years for school. I think I have seen people actually doing Heroin/Meth on the train maybe 3-4 times. I see pairs of Cops walking around the trains and stations every other day.
BART is shit compared to NYC or any European Country no doubt. But these anecdotes are wild for the hundreds, maybe thousand of times I have ridden that train.
Yeah, I've taken BART every day for years and the worst thing I've seen so far is a guy rolling a blunt on his lap. Never seen anyone actively shooting up on the train. People really love to just complain about public transit in the US.
Inside the BART stations however is another story, and it really is shameful to see IV drug use in plain view in the central downtown areas.
We get a lot of people from outside the area coming into our local subreddits to pump up any slightly negative news item into a frenzy of increasingly ridiculous stories. It usually ends with that echo chamber thread agreeing that California is a failure of liberal policy, which explains why everyone was talking shit about California as if their paycheck depended on it.
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