Train. Less train, less time, more crowds. Youre the best. It lost four trains during the morning commute that it used to get but what we gain from turning the trains back at Pleasant Hill impacts the entire system. Reporter heres the deal. B. A. R. T. Ridership is exploding to over 430,000 trips a day. But it still only has 669 cars. There just isnt enough train cars to go around. Reporter so theyre making trains longer and running them more often on certain routes. Downtown oakland is a major Housing Market now. A lot of people live here and get on at b. A. R. T. At downtown oakland. Reporter but in places like concord that once had plenty of room, theyre now like sardine cans in the morning. People that get on at concord are not happy that they have more crowding on the platform. And we understand that. But what were trying to do is run as efficiently as possible. Youre stuck withstanding room only on a crowded b. A. R. T. Train. And youre crowded from concord. Thats a long ride for
I think this whackadoodle act of storming a hearing to which many of them were entitled to go in the first place was an act of frustration about whats really going on, which is the damaging testimony is coming out about the president. They are trying to protest about the process. The process is perfectly routine for congressional hearings. There are often private nonpublic depositions before there are public hearings. The republicans did it when they were in charge, but it is away of throwing things up in the air that gets us to talk about the protest rather than the substance of the hearings which have proven to be, i think, even more damaging substantively to the president than many of us had expected. I think theres something more than frustration we saw there. Thats that a couple of days ago, President Trump felt the republicans were not fighting hard enough for him. And so i dont know. I think the timing is more than a coincidence. Because weve had so many guests on today from jef