Stinky

The problem with Spare the Air days is that the public transportation is all free. This is to encourage people to take public transit instead of driving and creating bad smog conditions. It's a nice theory.

The reality is that it's like free ice cream day for the degenerate homeless of San Francisco. Though many of them take every opportunity to sneak on the bus or train without paying as it is (and drivers are too pussy to stop them), it's the really nasty homeless who take transit on Spare the Air Day.

Now, in San Francisco the bus is almost never a pleasant experience. Frequently, it's nightmarish. But one builds a tolerance to it. But the BART system, which is sort of like a light rail and sort of like a subway, has no free access points where degenerates can just hop on. Thus, it is usually by far cleaner and efficient and not a bad way to travel.

But on Spare the Air day, it's all free. That means that all the stankest of the stanky hop on the BART and filthify it.

It's bad enough that on hot days the urine and excrement on the streets here smell twice as nasty. So do the homeless who go to the bathroom without removing their pants. So I think, instead of free transit rides for the populace, on Spare the Air days we should give free (mandatory) showers to the homeless. That would result in more relief for more people.

Why aren't I in politics?