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There is no reverse commute in the bay area anymore. It's uphill both ways
by asavadatti 8y ago
There is no reverse commute in the bay area anymore. It's uphill both ways
- rconti 8y agoSo I'm lying, then. As are all of the traffic maps that show eastbound bridge traffic being wide open in the mornings, south 280 and 101 being wide open in the mornings, and the opposite in the afternoons? It doesn't really take me 20 minutes to go 22 miles in the heart of Silicon Valley at rush hour? okay then.
- mc32 8y agoThere are choke points along 280, 380 interchange, 92, sand hill, and lots more going south, going north there are msny more, but you could have a commute such that you avoid those. I was more talking about SF to valley (at least PA) and likewise from at least PA to SF.
- pianoben 8y agoMy personal experience of driving south from ~San Francisco down to Sunnyvale along 101 in the mornings is that it takes me around 1.2 hours, on average. I'm not sure what traffic maps have to say about it, but every time I drive down I hit backups at Millbrae, San Mateo around 92, Menlo Park (the Facebook exit), Palo Alto which is just always congested, and Mountain View. In fact, the traffic is the deciding factor for me in ruling out regularly working in the Peninsula. Where do you start, and at what time of day, to get 20-minute drive times? I'd love to know the secret.
- rconti 8y agoMarsh, 7:35, to Winchester in SJ.
- pianoben 8y agoAh, that's the difference then! I'm starting from Brisbane and ending in Sunnyvale, usually leaving around 8:30. I'll try 7:30 next time!
- masonic 8y agoThat places you downstream of all Facebook traffic.
- rconti 8y agoIsh. Actually I live pretty much right next to Facebook, so Facebook traffic is my traffic. Trust me, when I commuted from the north, I'd spend 3-5 minutes sitting on my own damn offramp just to go a few hundred feet to my house while all the FBers and bridge folk were trying to turn left onto a gridlocked overpass :)
- masonic 8y agoHeck, when I worked in that neighborhood, the Marsh Road overpass was just one lane each way!
- masonic 8y agoeastbound bridge traffic being wide open in the mornings The fact that it's the toll "free" direction is also a factor.
- briandear 8y agoMoffet to Vallco Cupertino is a 13 minute morning commute. Cupertino to Moffet is a 27 minute morning commute, if not longer. Cupertino back to Moffet takes me 15 minutes in the evening, the reverse takes 31 minutes. There is definitely a reverse commute.
- usaar333 8y ago101 South of 85 has little traffic reverse direction (commute direction is into mountain view in mornings; out in evenings).