BART Strike Update and Poll
We're chagrined for downplaying this BART strike business earlier this week, but there's just been so many strike threats at this point (going back to mid-June) it's hard not to feel like the union's bluffing just a little bit. The update, as it stands, is that BART is ready to go back to the bargaining table with the Amalgamated Transit Union any time between now and Sunday; Mayor Newsom and Mayor Dellums have both issued statements encouraging negotiations to continue and expressing concern for Bay Area businesses; every local news station is going batshit interviewing commuters and predicting traffic Armageddon.
We're taking a poll here to see where all y'all's heads are at with this. Are you freaking out? Can you telecommute? Is this going to make your week a living hell? Or do you imagine, as we do, that there might be another 11th hour compromise as there was back in 2005, averting this whole mess by Sunday night?
