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Long Commute

My 40 minute train ride turned out to be 2 hours long today. First the train ahead of us got stuck in the trans-bay tube for some reason. We sat behind it in the tube for about 20 minutes or so before they gave up and backed us up and back out of the tunnel to West Oakland. Announcements on the public address system advised us to "seek alternate transportation" to the city. Being in West Oakland there was no alternate transportation! So I waited. And waited. And waited. Finally they got the two sections of the broken train out of the tunnel in front of us and we headed into the city. About 1/2 way through the tube the brakes on OUR train locked up, filling the car with foul smelling burnt brake smoke and bringing us to a halt yet again. Eventually the brakes were fixed and we made it into San Francisco.

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