San Francisco's Transit Strike Is Creating Insane Traffic

Business Insider ^ | 07/01/2013 | ALEX DAVIES

[SeekAndFind]

[AtlasStalled]

400,000 daily riders

. . . seems like relatively low ridership for a big city subway system

[SamAdams76]

Remember that this is a short holiday week in which many people are on vacation. So San Francisco commuters haven't felt the brunt of this strike just yet.

What should be happening is that BART should be in the process of hiring replacement workers. Simply fire the ones who walked off the job.

[Paladin2]

Looks like only the CASH lanes are backed up.

Why doesn't SF have enough affordable housing?

[meyer]

I thought traffic was already insane in SanFran.

Why don’t they just hire replacement workers?

[meyer]

I notice that the carpool lane is less heavily travelled. As is always the case. Such a useless use of pavement.

[cripplecreek]

Sounds like SF could use private sector competition with the public sector.

[Da Coyote]

Ah, is there anything liberland can do right?

Uh....no.

[bgill]

Looks like any big city during 5 pm traffic.

[SamAdams76]

Carpool lanes are a joke. Even when I am able to use them legitimately, I shy away from them because the cops are constantly pulling people over - just to be sure. I don’t need that kind of aggravation.

[0.E.O]

And the reason for the strike was...? Let me guess, BART isn’t losing enough money so salaries and benefits need to be increased?

[Pan_Yan]

What should be happening is that BART should be in the process of hiring replacement workers. Simply fire the ones who walked off the job.

Fire
...
government
...
union
...
employees ???

In California?????

Have you gone mad, Sir?

[ken5050]

When John V. Lindsay was elected mayor of NYC, he was greeted with a subway strike. Lindsay went to court to obtain an injunction against the TWU for the illegal strike.. (transit workers couldn't strike), The union leader, a big tough old school Irishman named Mike Quill, at a press conference, said that the "judge could drop dead in his black robes.."

The more things change.....

[Bogey78O]

Counterpoint: This only affects SFB residents and they deserve anything bad they get.

I hope the strike is long and painful.

[Newbomb Turk]

As my high schooler would say, How Gay !

[soycd]

Agreed. As if the six figure salaries and luxury plans are not enough for these government workers, they always want to milk the taxpayers for more. Perhaps the few thinking people in the area will see the light finally.

[American in Israel]

Nice thing about public transportation, is somebody always controls it, not the public, and it cannot be relied on like a car in the driveway. The more people become dependent on it, the more it can be used to extort money from them.

[Kevin in California]

I live in San Jose and thankfully, BART doesn’t come this far down into the south bay. The traffic that’s the result of this strike doesn’t impact the Silicon Valley area where I work. Even if it did, my company’s on mandatory shutdown this week.

[American in Israel]

I sir, shall knight you Captain Obvious. Good post.