Commuters using the Bay Area Rapid Transit in San Francisco got a respite when California Governor Jerry Brown intervened to avert a second scheduled strike by the transportation workers. Gov. Brown ordered an inquiry into the dispute regarding the labor contract between the firm and the workers.

BART is the fifth largest rail line in the United States and the intervention allowed morning commuters to go about their way without the projected congestion and problems had the strike pushed through as scheduled. The governor ordered the creation of a board of investigators to conduct an inquiry for a period of seven days. The impasse on the contract dispute had made plans to walk off the job by 12:00 mn of Sunday.

According to the Bay Area Council Economic Institute estimated that the strike conducted last July 1, 2013 had cost the region about US$73 million in lost productivity. This is due to the failure of commuters to be on time for work that Monday that BART employees walked off the job.