Hard to schedule trains these days

"The quest for late-night BART service hit a roadblock today. After surveying BART riders, the transit agency found that extending BART trains by an hour on Friday night and cutting an hour of service on Saturday morning would disproportionately affect poor people and minorities.

The survey found that 56 percent of late Friday night riders were minorities and 49 percent low income. In contrast, 68 percent of early Saturday morning riders were minorities and 53 percent were low income.

BART board director Tom Radulovich said that the results of the survey mean that "it is not impossible, but it makes it harder" to make the trains run later." Bay Citizen