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alp227 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-11 10:50 PM
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BART protesters plan Thursday demonstration
Source: San Francisco Chronicle

(09-05) 18:39 PDT San Francisco -- BART protesters vowed to block the fare gate exits at the Powell Street Station Thursday in a direct confrontation with transit district officials.

A handful of demonstrators gathered in front of the Civic Center fare gates Monday to detail their plans for Thursday's planned protest.

By shutting down the fare gates at 5 p.m. Thursday, the protesters hope to force BART officials to open the emergency gates and let passengers at the station leave without paying their fares, said Krystof Lopaur, an organizer for No Justice, No BART.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/09/05/MNP71L0IKI.DTL
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-11 02:12 PM
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1. Huh?
let passengers at the station leave without paying their fares

When you enter BART, you insert your ticket or tag your Clipper card. All this will do is massively confuse the system the next day when people insert their tickets that show an entry but no exit.
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a simple pattern Donating Member (426 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-11 02:25 PM
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