BART, packed with record crowds, to expand service
A little relief for BART riders weary of packing onto trains and standing elbow to belly button will pull up at the platform Monday morning.
The regional transit agency — struggling to handle record crowds, especially during the commute — will run longer trains, run more a few more of them and operate some later into the evening.
It’s all part of an effort to cope with growing ridership that now stands at about 430,000 trips per weekday, as well as soothe commuter discontent.
BART has new trains on the way, but they won’t arrive in significant numbers until 2017. With few railcars to spare, the agency has beefed up its maintenance staff to get the cars out of the shop and on the tracks more quickly, and has repaired some damaged cars.
BART also completed a new set of crossover tracks in Contra Costa County that gives it more flexibility.
“This is just the last inch we can squeeze out of our existing fleet while we wait for the Fleet of the Future to arrive,” said Taylor Huckaby, a BART spokesman.
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Or, as someone once said about TheBus on O'ahu, "nut to butt". It's a military thing. 
