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San Francisco Put in Subway Turnstiles That Can't Be Jumped - Maintenance Dropped 96 Percent

Even San Francisco and the rest of the Bay Area realizes that sometimes wokeness can go too far.

Take, for instance, the region’s subway system — Bay Area Rapid Transit, or BART. BART has long been hemorrhaging ridership, in part because of the perceived safety of the system.

So, the city put in turnstiles that couldn’t be jumped. And — wouldn’t you know it? — maintenance dropped 96 percent. That’s how much fare evaders were causing problems.

In case you need to know what the new gates look like, here’s a handy explainer:

BART officials promised that this would raise $10 million in additional revenue by forcing people to pay and getting more people to ride the system.

Whether or not this is true is a bit nebulous; BART’s financials and estimates of how many fare jumpers actually paid or how many people came back to the system thanks to the program, if they exist, don’t appear to be........

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