Embarcadero — Local services in San Francisco

The BART is a classic example of how San Francisco's mass transit is dated and a failure. The stations are DISGUSTING! Since San Francisco is a sanctuary city, the police don't stop criminals from walking around the station naked and stealing from children. The trains are dated and gross; people will spit and cough on you. Teenagers from Oakland ride over and back to rob tourists (sanctuary city). Overall a classic example of how corrupt politicans misuse tax dollars and don't fix the transit they constantly praise. San Francisco and the state of California's politicans need to go to Portland and Seattle and see what happens when their politicans actually practice what they preach. The MAX and Sounder actually run on time...

The Embarcadero BART station as well as the entire system has improved significantly in recent years in terms of comfort, cleanliness, and safety. Prior to the pandemic, Embarcadero would be very busy during peak commute hours. While still one of the busiest stations on the BART system, the station is far less crowded as BART recovers from the pandemic.

The station is a little dim (although there are plans in place to change that). The station has both BART and Muni trains stopping here and it can be easy for tourists to confuse BART and Muni.

Overall, this is a typical BART station that is fairly clean and okay...

Not that happy with Embarcadero. Friend and I travelled through here with our cases on the way to the airport. We went in through the barriers but the escalator was broken so we had to go out through the barriers then into the elevator. BART charged us $5.85 when leaving the station we'd entered within a minute of going through the gates the first time. This mean that we no longer had enough money on our tickets to get out at the airport and had to pay extra even after explaining to the agent at the airport what happened. He had no change and I only had large notes left forcing us...