Grist: Bay Area Rapid Transit workers are striking for the first time since 1997. Trains that connect the East Bay Area to San Francisco have ground to a halt, the highways are hella snarled, and dont even get me started on what its like for bicyclists out there.
As far as public transportation goes, BART does not have a great reputation. It is not lovably surly like the New York subway, nor clean like the Washington, D.C., train system. It doesn`t even run past midnight on the weekends, but BARTs...