{"id":112,"date":"2007-09-15T14:10:40","date_gmt":"2007-09-15T21:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=112"},"modified":"2007-09-15T14:11:49","modified_gmt":"2007-09-15T21:11:49","slug":"parking-at-fremont-bart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/archives\/2007\/09\/15\/parking-at-fremont-bart\/","title":{"rendered":"Parking at Fremont BART"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometime in the past few months the Fremont BART station started requiring people to pay $1 for parking.  While the fee itself isn&#8217;t so bad, the system seems pretty ill-conceived.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than using a normal paid parking system with parking meters or with entry or exit fees, riders are required to remember their parking space number and to pay at a machine inside the station.  The system is so confusing that there are at least three extra employees to guide people through the process: one person in the lot shouting at people to remember their parking space numbers, another person inside the station directing people to the parking validation machines, and a third person to explain to people how to use the machines.  And that&#8217;s not including any people needed to enforce the parking dues.<\/p>\n<p>The parking machines also introduce a bottleneck since everyone entering the station must wait to use them.  No longer can I have a spare ticket handy in my wallet and dash straight from my car to a departing train.<\/p>\n<p>Admittedly the parking lot at the Fremont BART station wasn&#8217;t designed for this sort of thing, but I wouldn&#8217;t expect retrofitting it to be too costly since the lot has limited entrances and exits, and areas of the lot are designated for buses and for passenger drop-off and pick-up already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometime in the past few months the Fremont BART station started requiring people to pay $1 for parking. While the fee itself isn&#8217;t so bad, the system seems pretty ill-conceived. Rather than using a normal paid parking system with parking meters or with entry or exit fees, riders are required to remember their parking space [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rantsraves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}