More than 200 Bay Area singles squeezed onto a reserved BART train last night, turning a routine ride into a rolling meet-cute experiment for the agency’s second annual “Valentraine” speed-dating run. The one-hour trip left from 16th Street Mission, ran nonstop to Millbrae and back, and blended timed, musical-chair-style conversations with looser mingling on the return. Riders ranged from hardcore transit nerds to people openly hunting for a spouse, and plenty walked away comparing the whole thing to app-based dating, just with better lighting and worse cell service.
How the Valentraine worked
BART says the one-night event boarded at the 16th Street Mission Station and ran from a 5 p.m. check-in to a 7 p.m. return, with $5 tickets sold through…..