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b.a.r.t. station. in both directions, not stopping at walnut creek, all because of that man who was threatening suicide at that walnut krek station. this is what b.a.r.t. had to say about that. we want people to understand the severity of this and while it s very frustrating to not be able to get home, we need to make sure this person doesn t harm himself. it s frustrating, but it s unforeseen, and i m going to be fine, i m going to get hom, so think positively. and the people we talked to here all had that sort of same mind set that we couldn t foresee this happening, these strange things sort of happen periodically and we ll just ride with it. there are still cars coming, picking up people who have been riding b.a.r.t. to the lafayette station, we re told the trains are going to be crowded for a while and there may be residual delays, so you should be prepared for that, if you re coming east. prepare for crowded trains and a bit of a delay, but the crisis is ove ....
it took hours for some people to get home from work this afternoon because of a man threatening suicide at the walnut creek b.a.r.t. station. a man was threatening to jump from the ledge on the elevated platform level of the station. this is the walnut creek station which is back open as we speak. it was shut down to riders for the better part of several hours. investigators spoke to the man at that time convincing him to come down to safety. the man dangled over the station before police officers we s were to close the station. reporter: if you take a look right there behind me, those are the regular b.a.r.t. riders, with their regular frustrations, but before, at 5:00, i showed you a line of people shuttled from the bus station over there over to where that sign is over there, it is a mess and that s the way b.a.r.t. described it. let s show you some aerials we took a little bit earlier, these people were wait forgiing for ao take them to the walnut creek b.a. ....