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@SFBART well I'm sick of paying $12a day for a crappy ride. Can't wait for new trains with less seats w/same old tracks. Stand 50 min!

@MarilynDroukas We plan on taking our fleet to 1,081 train cars from today's 669 - that's a massive increase in seats systemwide. 49%.

@SFBART @MarilynDroukas will the tracks be able to handle increase? If maintenance/system can't keep up now, what's the point?

@BGRod10 The steel we're installing is harder than the original - our rail cars are very light. We get a lot of life out of our rail.

@SFBART I keep dealing with delays due to probs on track/track maintenance. Clearly rail life is wearing thin.

@BGRod10 We need to replace 90 miles of rail.

@SFBART respect the honesty, but for daily riders, that is not comforting.

@SFBART @shakatron bloody hell, you had over 20 years to plan for crowds. Get it together. #projectplanning #BART #Fails #Again #Excuses

@tquad64 Planners in 1996 had no way of predicting the tech boom - track redundancy, new tunnels & transbay tubes are decades-long projects.

@SFBART sure but now we all see the problems clearly. We need add'l tracks and late night hours on weekends! When does work start?

@EliPollak @SFBART - The theory around not having late hours is to avoid having bad folks travel into the city at odd hours of the night.

@ladyfox14 Bad theory - overnight hrs are the only time we can do maintenance without disrupting service. BART wasn't built w/ extra tracks.

@SFBART - Ah, yes. I forgot about the late night maintenance hours. Hopefully, if more tracks are built, this will remedy the situation. :)

@SFBART @shakatron reality is that you've done fuckall about it forever. get to work.

@algorhythmz @shakatron Actually, our workers have done an extraordinary job of keeping the system working as long as it has.

@SFBART agreed, but chickenwire and bubblegum are only gonna solve your problems for so long.. (45 yrs, apparently)

@algorhythmz Exactly. It's like roof repair. Can patch here and there but eventually it must be replaced. BART is considering a $3.5Bn bond.