https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/03/15/the-strange-second-lives-of-bart-train-cars/

Spending the night in a train car – it might not just be for hobos anymore. Under a unique BART program, used cars are gaining new life as a futuristic rental unit, a video-game arcade, a museum for the Oakland A’s and other fascinating things.

BART announced last year that it wanted ideas for creative reuse of some of its old train cars, which the transit agency is replacing with the “Fleet of the Future.” It received 20 viable proposals. Sadly, none of them “sought to use the legacy cars for affordable-housing projects or homes for the unhoused – two of the major problems facing the San Francisco Bay Area,” writes the agency. Rather, the “use with the largest number of proposals is restaurant/bar/beer garden-type establishments.” (Go figure.)