Burning Man traffic creates miles-long lines of idling vehicles, hours of gridlock and makes gate waits stretch beyond five hours during busy periods or storms. Attendees can avoid prolonged vehicle delays by arriving early to build camps, flying into the event airfield, or using the Burner Express bus. The Burner Express began in 2013 to reduce traffic and carbon footprint and runs from San Francisco and Reno with frequent departures. Bus service includes bike transport, two checked items and costs $189 from San Francisco ($284 with a bike). Bus travel can prevent multi-day entrapment caused by weather-related gate closures.
Or, if you're a normie like me, you can take the bus. On Sunday, I rode from San Francisco to Black Rock City on the Burner Express, Burning Man's bus line linking the desert to the default world. The bus, which also runs to and from Reno, Nevada, glides right past the very long, very slow line to get through Burning Man's gates.
Taking the bus saved my ass. If I hadn't ridden in on the Burner Express, I would have been stuck in the passenger seat of an unlucky friend's car for 31 hours Sunday and Monday after a rainstorm forced Burning Man to close its gates. Instead, for the most part, my journey was smooth and pleasant. It began a little before 10 a.m. Sunday when I biked from my San Francisco apartment to the temporary bus stop at Civic Center.
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