Do you ever get to the train station and realize you forgot to bring something to read? Yes, we all have our phones, but many of us still like to go old school and read something printed.
你有没有在火车站发现自己忘了带阅读的书？是的，我们都有手机，但我们中的许多人仍然喜欢去老学校读一些印刷品。
Well. there's a kiosk for that. In the San Francisco Bay Area, at least.
是的，需要有一个阅读亭。至少在旧金山湾区是这样。
“You enter the fare gates and you'll see a kiosk that is lit up and it tells you can get a one.minute, a three-minute, or a five-minute story," says Alicia Trost, the chief communications officer for the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit-known as BART. “You choose which length you want and it gives you a receipt-like short story."
旧金山湾区捷运局（BART）的首席通讯官艾丽西亚·特罗斯特（Alicia Trost）说：“你进入检票口，就会看到一个亮着灯的阅读亭，它告诉你可以得到一则一分钟、三分钟或五分钟的故事。你可以选择你想要的长度，它会给你一个像短篇小说一样的收据。
"It's that simple. Riders have printed nearly 20,000 short stories and poems since the program was launched last March. Some are classic short stories, and some are new original works.
“就这么简单。自去年3月该项目启动以来，乘客们已经打印了近2万篇短篇小说和诗歌。有些是经典短篇小说，有些是新的原创作品。
Trost also wants to introduce local writers to local riders. “We wanted to do something where we do a call to artists in the Bay Area to submit stories for a contest," Trost says. “And as of right now, we've received about 120 submissions. The winning stories would go into our kiosk and then you would be a published artist.”
特罗斯特还想向当地乘客介绍当地作家。特罗斯特说：“我们想做一件事，呼吁湾区的艺术家为比赛提交故事。截至目前，我们已经收到了大约120份提交的作品。获奖故事将进入我们的阅读亭，然后你将成为一名出版过作品的艺术家。”
Ridership on transit systems across the country has been down the past half century, so could short stories save transit?
在过去的半个世纪里，全国各地的交通系统乘客量一直在下降，那么短篇小说能拯救交通吗？
Trost thinks so.
特罗斯特这样认为。
“At the end of the day all transit agencies right now are doing everything they can to improve the rider experience. So I absolutely think we will get more riders just because of short stories,” she says.
她说：“归根结底，现在所有的交通机构都在尽一切努力改善乘客体验。所以我绝对认为，仅仅因为短篇小说，我们就会吸引更多的乘客”。
And you’ll never be without something to read.
你永远不会没有东西可以阅读。
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