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?

For BART's demo cars that are in service, the open spots are clearly designated as the bike spots, and there's nothing noting wheelchairs. Doesn't this seem a little odd?

Im not familiar with the public transportation system.. but i knew that bikes were allowed on bart, never did i think there would be a specific time that they were not..

i finally got a job after well over a year of small worthless gigs. never falling in the early hours.. so now i got a job early in the morning.. and appearantly i cant work anymore because i have no way to get there.. because i cant take my bike and bart..

thanks a lot to the ass hole who who thought of this one.
its not like my bike is a damn car that takes up space, its impossible to not be able and handle it without getting in peoples way .. no more than other bodys are already in the way.

yet another obstacle im unable to even attempt to get over.

screw you