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In the Bay Area it's a joke either to drive or rely on public transportation. Choose the former and suffer in a slow-moving traffic jam in all directions. Choos
by sidlls 10y ago
In the Bay Area it's a joke either to drive or rely on public transportation. Choose the former and suffer in a slow-moving traffic jam in all directions. Choose the latter and be at the mercy of tepid schedules and relatively frequent delays. I live 25 miles by road from my office. Whether I drive to work or take Caltrain/BART my commute (including biking or driving to the train station) is a minimum of 70 minutes one-way.
Traffic and transportation are hard problems, but this area seems to always choose terrible solutions for either of them.
- drdeadringer 10y agoHow does pre-planning and forethought not get mitigate "tepid schedules"? Yes, I could want to go to an event all the way up in San Francisco whilst Caltrain shuts down at midnight, but that means only that I have a few decisions to make.
- mahyarm 10y agoYou must live in the south bay. People in SF use public transport quite a bit and I commute in using BART every day. Caltrain is pretty horrible schedule wise.
- sidlls 10y agoNope, my office is in the city. I live in San Mateo and take either the San Mateo or Burlingame station depending on my mood and how far I want to bike on a given day. My experience with the Muni system in the city is that it is less than dependable. Frequent backups, delays or even skipped trains seem to be normal. When I have to use the Muni I basically leave work 10-15 minutes earlier than when I first started this job just because I can rely on the unreliability of the Muni system.