Zig-Zagging Into BART

Perhaps they've been up a while, but just today Your Boulevardier noticed that a zigzag of railings has been constructed at the bottom of the wheelchair ramp at the Castro Valley BART station.


Logic leads one to suspect that too many people had ridden bicycles or skateboards down the ramp at too-high speeds; those people then collided with pedestrians coming out of the station. It could also be that pedestrians and wheeled passengers going appropriate speeds from both directions had been colliding at the corner. Either way, this new slalom prevents unintended meetings from happening, which is a good thing. And it matches the stainless steel railings in other areas of the station.