BART strike sends SF fireworks-goers scrambling for buses OAKLAND, Calif., July 4 (UPI) -- A four-day strike by Bay Area Rapid Transit workers forced San Francisco area residents to take overcrowded buses to fireworks shows Thursday. "I feel like the whole Fourth of July is going to be spent on a bus," David Bober, a 32-year-old El Cerrito resident, told the Contra Costa Times while waiting for a bus in downtown Oakland. "I'm not sure how long the public is going to take this," he said, explaining he and his friends were planning on taking two buses to a barbeque in San Francisco, a third bus to get to the fireworks and a fourth bus to get back home. One labor leader told the newspaper Thursday the talks "were not going well."