My wife used to work for Alaska Airlines in Seattle so we flew for free. We used to head to Burbank on a very early flight, rent a convertible, tour the area for the day, and return that night. We decided one day to do the same thing with San Francisco, but landed in Oakland, and thought we’d take the bart to SF. The bus took us to the Bart station and after about 20 minutes of observing everything going on around us, we caught a bus back to the airport and flew back to Seattle. This was about 13 years ago.
The way I would describe the scene there is that it was like one of those post apocalypse movies.
My wife's mother lived in Oakland. We had to use Oakland as our base when we visited the Bay Area. We took the BART to San Fran, but always made sure to get back to her mother's in Oakland before dark. It was like vampires and other creatures of the dark come out after dark.
Regards,
BART stopped reporting crimes on their system because so many “teens” were committing crimes and THATS RACIST.