While adding value to a BART ticket this evening, the fare chart caught my eye, and I noticed something called the “Excursion Fare”. It’s a cost for exiting from the same station you came in on (to ward off vagrants living on the system all day, I suppose…), or for losing your ticket. At only $4.60, why isn’t it in my favor to claim that I’ve “lost” my ticket on a longer journey (like on my semi-daily SF-Fremont route, valued at a whole $5.00)?
I’ve also become privy to another BART trick. The total fare from Fremont to Dublin/Pleasanton is actually more than the total fare of the Fremont-Bay Fair and Bay Fair to Dublin/Pleasanton journies. Try and explain that one!