Marin St Station

The immediate neighborhood can be scary. Not necessarily I’m-going-to-get-mugged scary, but definitely it’s-way-too-quiet-and-I-could-get-abducted-and-no-one-would-ever-know scary.
But my two stars have very little to do with the desolation of 3^rd Street by way of Marin Street. No, I’m giving this venerable T-​Third station two stars because its platforms are really really really narrow. I was waiting here for a T with my mom, aunt, nephew, and niece; and I was terrified the entire time that one or both of the kids would fall off the platform. I don’t understand why they didn’t just put the platform in the middle, between the two sets of tracks. That would solve the dangerousness problem, and it would also make it so that the northbound and southbound platforms wouldn’t have to be on either side of Marin Street.
Hold onto your kids, pay your fare, and enjoy the T. It’s really quick from here to the main Caltrain station, and that surprised me.