Ask The Appeal: Why Doesn't BART Have A "Bike Car" During Peak Hours?

I've seen their "demonstration cars" and I'm impressed by some of their improvements, but one problem remains; they modified the bicycle spot, but the big label/sticker says "bicycle priority area" when priority should always be wheelchair passengers first (ADA violation?).

Caltrain's bike cars are bike priority areas. Not a violation because there is also a wheelchair priority area. BART has wheelchair priority areas so they are in compliance even if they have a bike priority area. Note that BART didn't say "We can't have a bike car because that would be an ADA violation".

Taken to the extreme, they need to rip out the seats because wheelchairs can't go there.

Ob on topic - It sucks that you can't take bike on BART at rush hour but given the capacity constraints of the system, it makes sense. I don't get the "heavy rail" comment because they are both heavy rail, the difference is that BART goes from big parking garages direct to the urban core in SF/OAK/Berkeley, Caltrain dots the little downtowns of the peninsula, but the jobs are 2-3 miles away from the stations and down there the mass transit sucks. A bike is much more valuable (on both ends) for a Caltrain commuter, so much so that Caltrain is really propping up their ridership by offering the service. Even the 4/K station in SF is not really that close to the job center.

It certainly has not been my experience that CalTrain stops longer at stations than does BART. They both leave after about 20 seconds. Am I wrong?