Works great, assuming I can get someone to actually take me across the bridge (I had to complain to Lyft about this before), and spend 7-10x as much as BART would cost.
One of the sole advantages of NYC taxis: they are required by law to take you anywhere within city limits you ask.
Yes, and an NYC cabbie would _never_ willingly ignore a regulation like that.
But there's a legal sanction for doing so; it's a condition of their license.
I acknowledge your sarcasm, but indeed they rarely do. It's happened to me only once, and it was fairly easy to report them to the TLC.
I don't know a single city where license numbers and the complaint hotline are so prominently placed as in NYC. I believe it was common that cabbies ignored regulation but this appears to have changed in recent years.
assuming I can get someone to actually take me across the bridge
That would generally mean the driver would have to eat the entire return trip; Lyft won't pay for that time, mileage, or loss of other fares.