Transportation
The Bay Area Survived Its First Morning Without a Metro
The BART strike made for a crowded commute, but not a nightmare.
This morning, workers of Bay Area Rapid Transit went on strike, forcing the shutdown of all train service in the commuter subway.
The subway connects workers in East Bay cities like Oakland and Berkeley to jobs in downtown San Francisco (and vice versa). Without those trains, trans-bay public-transit commuters were forced to drive, hop on a ferry or bus, or telecommute. SFMTA put out a complicated list of alternatives, and there was even a thread on Reddit for carpooling (h/t NBC Bay Area).