Bay Area BART Transit
This cluster centers on discussions of BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit), its reliability, coverage, crowding, and comparisons to other local systems like MUNI and Caltrain, including debates on expansions, funding, and alternatives.
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In my experience, BART trains run very regularly, usually on the exact posted schedule. They have unimpeded tracks, so except for mechanical problems and sabotage, they are very reliable. SF MUNI busses and light rail, on the other hand, can be very slow and random, at the mercy of street traffic for most of the routes.
Interesting: https://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2020/news20200813
You may be thinking of Caltrain, rather than BART.
Caltrain and Bart - please take note!
Why wouldn't you just take BART?
BART can't do that. The cities can do that.
More like the easy commute you had in San Francisco on muni (the bus and subway network of San Francisco) becomes an annoying hour and a half-long commute on bart (The regional train system) with 2-3 transfers
> Since there is no genuine fit-for-purpose alternativeAsking as someone who doesn't live there - in what ways are BART / muni / street cars not fit-for-purpose?
There is some great history here but I wish he were not so dismissive of BART. I complain about it all the time -- yes trains get delayed sometimes -- but in the big scheme of things BART is simply magnificent. There's nothing quite like it in the country -- a high speed inter-city under-water under-ground train system. New York has the LIRR to Long Island and the Acela to DC, but it's got nothing on BART.Yes, BART "fails" to reach the North and South bay, because those ar
BART is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commuter_rail rather than a bus. In San Francisco it’s a subway line, in the suburbs it’s elevated and makes one or two stops per town.