LATHROP—
Stress and headaches.It's what thousands of valley commuters are bracing themselves for come Monday, when BART workers are expected to strike.
It's estimated 140,000 trips on BART from San Joaquin County to the big city are made every year.
BART commuter Mercy Martin helps with her son's dry cleaning business twice a week in San Francisco. The strike means she won't commute from her Lathrop home.
"He'll really be bummed out that he has to do all the work six days a week by himself," Martin said.
Altamont Commuter Express trains will run business as usual.
"We still offer our four daily round trips. We still offer the free shuttles that will take passengers from the train to wherever they need to go," ACE spokesman Thomas Reeves said.
Linda Oliver will be one of them. She'll have to take the ACE shuttle to the Dublin bus station, then get on another bus to Oakland station. She'll then have yet *another bus transfer into San Francisco.
"It may add maybe two hours. I hope not, because right now it's almost three hours in the morning," Oliver said.
BART rider Ruben Sangiv questions BART workers' motives during an already trying time.
"You're lucky you have a job, you know. A lot of people are cutting their hours, working three days, four days. I don't know what these people are thinking. They're making a lot of money," Sangiv said.
