BART is more than doubling its police presence on train cars beginning on Monday.
It's all part of an effort to bring its ridership numbers back amid ongoing concerns about crime on its trains. Most of those officers being pulled from vehicle patrols.The officers will join a team of unarmed safety staff already deployed on trains last year.
"I think it's completely necessary," said Jessie Jones of Walnut Creek. "There's obviously a shortage of officers. Every time we've called the police, we've had to deal with bart, the response times have been ridiculous. We've had to deal with an issue here in Walnut Creek, we won't get a response until Embarcadero."
In addition to police, BART has also hired more cleaners, increased the number of times train cars are cleaned per day and boosted the number of crews on overnight deep cleaning.that I have read and agree
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