»In which all transit is easy

Can you live in San Francisco without a car?
The San Francisco Chronicle amusingly claims that transit around the Bay Area is "easy", setting themselves up as too easy a target.
How is getting around the Bay Area on public transit easy? Trains don't run 24 hours, meaning that on Sunday I cannot take BART until eight o'clock; meaning that for much of the last year, I could not take light-rail inbound from Downtown San Francisco, but instead needed to rely on MUNI's erratic, poorly-labelled, and tediously slow surface buses; I could (and often do) go on about this, but I find any assertion that San Francisco is easy to get around with public transit laughable.
I have found walking home from Downtown faster on foot than by bus, even during rush hour (!!) with three bus lines, a trolley, and two train lines to compete against; I still consider that cycling from point to point in San Francisco is more efficient than MUNI. To those who say that you wind up smelly and sweaty, consider how smelly and damn nasty MUNI buses are.
In a small way, I am happy that car-sharing, the focus of the Chronicle's article, has succeeded in San Francisco; but this does not improve public transit, and may in fact distract funding from improving transit in the Bay Area. Car-sharing may reduce private car ownership, and encourage drivers to consolidate trips, and cut down on the onerous and contentious task of parking (hey, jackassaurus parked across our driveway! that's not a spot! I will twist your windshield wipers, use a Sharpie on your paint, kick some of the fresh dog shit from nearby Duboce Park onto your door handle, and other nasty tricks I learned from a well-dressed man with a dog under his arm at the Ferry Building). I really wish that public transit in the Bay Area were free or lower-cost, that it ran more frequently (really frequently); I don't buy the local-vs-express argument that MUNI uses in planning routes, and I don't appreciate the lack of dedicated transit zones, and I really can't stand how the different services fail to interoperate).