It comes as the system dealt with major delays and concerns in recent weeks over safety.
"It was insane! The platforms were overly crowded and it took me an hour and a half to get home," said BART rider Nicole Jaeger.
BART board director Janice Li spoke at Manny's Community Space in San Francisco Wednesday night but didn't address either issue. She did talk quite a bit about what she calls a lack of investment in the system. "Our effectiveness of these programs is really, really limited by honestly the City and County of San Francisco's inability to have real solutions and real exits from homelessness and to really deal with the addiction crisis that we have here and until the City and County of San Francisco can get it together in finding those solutions we will inevitably see those things happen on BART," said Li.
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