San Francisco’s dirty secret

I love San Francisco, but the story about why so many escalators at the BART’s Civic Center station have been out-of-service has left me shaking my head and a little sick to my stomach.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported last week when a repair team opened up one broken escalator earlier this summer they discovered so much human feces they had to call in a hazardous materials team. Yes,  you read that correctly, human poop has been breaking the escalators.  Apparently the area surrounding many BART stations are popular camping spots for many of the city’s homeless population and they are to blame for turning these stations into urban septic tanks (yuck).

So to all my friends in San Francisco, I wanted to suggest possibly pinching your nose the next time you find yourself taking an BART station escalator.