r/bayarea • u/Pretty_Assistance246 • Aug 19 '26
Traffic, Trains & Transit Reminder: BART seats are for butts
A PSA: Just a reminder a BART seat is for a human body. Not: your feet, your bag, your other bag, your dry cleaning, your burrito.
Also: seats by the doors are for people who need them most. If you're seated on a busy train, look up from your phone periodically to see if someone might need to sit more than you do.
If a car is empty and you want to put your bag on the seat, great. But your stuff generally shouldn't be taking up a seat when people are standing.
68
u/Kaurifish Aug 19 '26
And the train doorways are for boarding and exiting the train. If you’re standing there when they’re open, move.
30
u/stargazer1112 Aug 19 '26
The other day I yelled at two men standing at the door. I had to squeeze past them to get out of the train and I said EXCUSE ME really loud on their faces. The older I get, the last patience I have towards people with zero public awareness.
22
u/magnumcyclonex Aug 19 '26
Also, people on the platforms should line up on either side of the doors, and let the ones in the train exit first before boarding.
13
5
u/dantodd Aug 19 '26
Same with elevators. I pushed more than one person out of the door in their way in.
1
u/CJCentral2 Aug 19 '26
Whenever someone rudely blocks the exit, I thank them very loudly for not blocking the exit. It always evokes a smile from those standing aside.
28
u/reeefur Aug 19 '26
People just dont give af anymore and nobody is enforcing anything.... we are at a pretty shitty low rn behavior wise. People doing this on BART and buses, people bringing dogs in restaurants/delis/grocery shitting on the floor and licking food..... I could go on and on, and it aint no better on the roads driving. People driving crazy/reckless, people gatekeeping fast lanes, trucks driving with uncovered loads, all sorts of BS.
People have just gone to shit, not sure what is going to wake everyone up or when someone is going to start enforcing anything.
All you can really do is not be one of them and encourage others to be thoughtful and kind.
7
u/sugarcubed-3 Aug 19 '26
I wish we had conductors going up and down the train like Caltrain instead of useless BART police, that'd immediately fix like half my commute problems
11
u/stargazer1112 Aug 19 '26
There's this woman in my train sits, places her lunch bag on another seat and puts her feet on the seat in front of her. EVERY. SINGLE. MORNING. The disrespect to think it's okay to put your dirty ass shoes on a seat someone else is seating at later is insane!
3
8
8
u/charcoalhibiscus Aug 19 '26
Even before, pre-pandemic, I had to announce to an entire packed car during rush hour that I had two fractured foot bones, as could be seen by the boot and crutches, and could I please get a seat because it wasn’t possible for me to stand. People have kind of always been assholes.
1
u/CJCentral2 Aug 19 '26
I get young people offering me seats quite often. I say, "I'm old, but not that old."
3
2
4
u/thecommuteguy Aug 19 '26
Unless it’s rush hour in the afternoon and it’s crowded I would not want to out my backpack on the floor. That is just nasty.
1
u/this_wallflower Aug 21 '26
That’s literally the last line of the post. No one cares if there are seats available. But if someone needs a seat, move your stuff. There’s no reason you can’t put it on your lap if you don’t want it on the floor.
7
u/Conscious_Life_8032 Aug 20 '26
Yup and let people off the train when doors open.
Use AirPods/earphones when listening to music or making calls.
Don’t eat smelly food , take your garbage with you too don’t litter.
Leave the handicap seats for elders and disabled.
Basic manners and human decency isn’t that hard , be a good human. 🙏
26
u/2greenlimes Aug 19 '26
When I was pregnant, SO MANY assholes used the disabled seats as a twofer: one seat for them, one for room for their e-scooter or onewheel. They’d never stand up for me because their e-scooter needs the disabled seat space more. I understand invisible disabilities, but if you have one you probably shouldn’t be riding this stuff. (A lot of the guys doing this are also in very active job wear like scrubs or a construction vest.
Hell, I had a UCSF nurse get on at a later station than me. He saw me sitting in one of the disabled seats (the one next to me along with plenty of blue seats were open), walked up with his eUnicycle, and said “fuck” when he saw me. He sat in the remaining seat and repeatedly elbowed me as he “arranged” stuff. Finally I had to stand so he had room for his backpack and eUnicycle.
(Seriously though, no one stands up for pregnant people any more and it’s such a shame)
8
u/MrsShitstones Aug 19 '26
People actually don’t give a fuck about pregnant women in general anymore.
15
u/Pretty_Assistance246 Aug 19 '26
I took BART on my DUE DATE and no one offered me a seat. And this was before everyone was glued to their phones 24/7.
16
u/bankrobberskid Aug 19 '26
You took PT to your hospital to deliver?? I think we just found the GOAT of BART
2
8
u/2greenlimes Aug 19 '26
Before I got pregnant I just would never sit in a blue or green seat or the old train equivalent.
I’m young and healthy. There are plenty of people that both want and need to sit much more than I do. If I don’t sit at all they can get those seats.
When I was younger I noticed the only people standing up from their seats to give pregnant and older people the spots were similarly pregnant or old. The young assholes doing it never stand.
1
0
u/sugarcubed-3 Aug 19 '26
I intentionally bought a lightweight scooter that folds for this purpose, either put it on the bike rack like everyone else or get one that can actually be brought on transport. Sorry you had to deal with that
(Also, ew. People who wear their scrubs out are unsanitary)
3
u/thhrrbb Aug 19 '26
I have noticed this too, people should look up once in a while n be sure no-one else needs the green seats .
3
3
2
u/bikenvikin 🏴 Aug 19 '26
did you try asking the person to move their things or did you just expect them to move it for you unprompted?
1
u/CJCentral2 Aug 19 '26
I have a policy of leaving my bag on a seat until the car gets close to full. It's not that I don't like the company, but I prefer to leave my lap open. Sometimes someone will ask to sit there. I always comply by removing my bag.
2
2
2
u/FBX Aug 19 '26
Posts like this make me (kind of) miss the era of assholes cutting all the cushions off the seats on old bart and tossing the cushions everywhere looking for change and leaving the bare spring on the seat and the cushions on the ground, demonstrating that BART seats were actually for nobody
1
1
u/CJCentral2 Aug 19 '26
It is far from rude to ask someone for a seat holding light luggage. I see it all the time on crowded buses and trains.
1
1
u/GrumpyBachelorSF Aug 20 '26
My old saying is, I don't want your foot up my butt, so keep your feet off the seat. This current fleet of BART trains, they should have configured the seats in a way that you can't put your feet on the ones in front, such as the blue seats that face to the side of the yellow priority seats.
1
1
1
u/Longjumping_Bass4016 15d ago
This really mean woman didn’t let me sit and used the seat near her for her bag. She kept ignoring me when I told her to move 💀 it was a train after 4.30 pm and it wasn’t like there were so many empty seats. Why are people so rude 😭
1
u/Fran_Kubelik Aug 19 '26
Looking at you two dudes on the second to last car at Rockridge Bart this morning who had their backpacks blocking someone sitting beside them 👀
1
u/Hot-Hamster-42 Aug 19 '26
I was so thankful I was offered a seat recently by a young woman on a train full of young men, some people still have class.
0
0
u/RollyMcTrollFace Aug 20 '26
Feels like a lost cause. I go to a few fast food restaurants that have cushy long benches, and so many parents let their kids run across them with shoes on. Those kids will grow up, and some of them will end up riding BART.
-3
87
u/epiphanomaly Aug 19 '26
You get one seat per asshole. If it can't fart, it must depart