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BART needs a yarn bomb, stat!

Posted Mar 14, 2011 at 6:43 pm by
Categories: Art, BART

I took BART today for the first time in ages, and was immediately reminded that A.) I do not like being in a small crowded areas with people picking their nose next to me, B.) I really need to fix my bike brake, and C.) didn’t they release some study a few weeks ago about fecal matter on BART seats OHMYGOD no one touch me.

After scrubbing my hands raw, I came across this completely AWESOME solution to our BART bacterial bacchanal:

How nifty is this? Ishknits, a knitting connoisseur based in Philly, needs to come to San Francisco ASAP and help us with our small, possibly outbreak-esqe problem and hook us up with some knit seat covers!

[via Wooster]

11 comments

11 Responses to “BART needs a yarn bomb, stat!”

  1. Melanie says:
    March 14, 2011 at 8:09 pm

    OHMIGOD. This will not fix it. This is a terrible idea. This is worse. This is adding more nooks and crannies for the bacteria to live in. I don’t care if it’s cute. I don’t care if it’s freaking David Bowie seat covers – BART should NOT be upholstered.

    • steve stevenson says:
      March 14, 2011 at 8:21 pm

      nope. great idea. nano-yarn, son, its got built in germicidal agents and that kills all the bacterias and you bring it with you everytime you’re on the bart you put it on the seat. so if it gets some (very small) amount of bacteria then you just wash it in the yarn tub. PROBLEM = SOLVED, so stop hating.

      • Melanie says:
        March 14, 2011 at 8:27 pm

        I like this comment. And I want to like you. You seem funny. And well read. Not sure why, but you do.

        However, your warped vision of what constitutes sanitary public transportation worries me, and I fear for you.

      • feedthebirds says:
        March 15, 2011 at 11:33 am

        sun

  2. Melanie says:
    March 14, 2011 at 8:28 pm

    ALSO this is totally MUNI.

    I changed my mind about everything.

    Yarn bomb is cuter over plastic seats.

  3. Melanie says:
    March 14, 2011 at 8:43 pm

    Apparently it’s neither BART nor MUNI. I revoke everything I said.

  4. Lauren G says:
    March 14, 2011 at 9:10 pm

    We need seat condoms, not knitted booties!

  5. Corpus Nerd says:
    March 15, 2011 at 12:46 pm

    Art challenge: Yarn-bomb a whole train car!

  6. SCUM says:
    March 15, 2011 at 2:07 pm

    Can we just cover everything in sanitary napkins?

  7. Lauren says:
    March 15, 2011 at 7:11 pm

    who came up with this concept first? Knittaplease or Ishknits? totally called guerrilla yarn installations would be in SF before long…I was guessing the mission first…

  8. amir says:
    March 16, 2011 at 1:18 pm

    wooster posted another article on muni

    http://www.munidiaries.com/2011/03/15/seat/