but I was wondering- isnt the Bart privately owned and isn’t it out of their jurisdiction to ticket onI private property? I question this as a city or state law? I asked the cop but cops dont know usually know. Does anyone know?

Inconvenient at best and potenitally dangerous if passengers lose their balance when the escalator unexpectantly stops (if you fall on an escalator, you can go all the way to the bottom and there have been fatalities due to falls).

It can also cause mechanical damage to the steps which untimately can cause them to crash into the combs at the landing with catastrophic consequences. Broken steps = mincing machine!

I’d mind the elevators less if they didn’t smell like pee about half the time, and if they weren’t so inconveniently placed. (Sometimes it feels like the downtown stations might as well share elevators, as I walk about halfway to Montgomery from Powell to use one.)

I would also like to go on record as supporting the banning of rigid metal tubing clothes on BART escalators.

As for losing control over your bicycle, that seems a lot more likely walking it down stairs, than holding it while you’re getting lifted, yourself mostly motionless, by an escalator.

This controversy isn’t about engineering or safety though. It’s about culture. A lot of non-bicyclists hate bicyclists — for their youth, for their health, often for their presumed politics and education, and yes, because some bicyclists are jerks.

In any event, unlike the children’s Crocs with holes that perfectly fit into escalator tines, bicycle wheels are much too big to get grabbed like that.

=v= BART’s policy does not apply to street-level escalators at the combo Muni/BART stops on Market Street, and somehow bicyclists have been using those for decades without disastrous consequences.

It’s sad that she can not see this. I hope no one gets hurt.