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BART and Caltrain are always going to be cheaper than driving into the city. People who drive into San Francisco aren't the ones who don't live in the city beca

• dehrmann 7y ago
  I did this for 5 years, 2 of them into the area around the Transbay Terminal. I'm an engineer, so showing up at 10:30 is workable, and the roads are at least moving by then. I also do the peninsula commute; any commute using a bridge is significantly worse. I can definitely afford to live in SF (one of the lots I parked in was $500/month), but never pulled the trigger on moving. I mostly drove because it was somehow lower stress than taking the train. I'd be standing half the time on Caltrain, and it only got me within a 25 min. walk to the office. Transferring to Bart made the walk OK, but added too much time to the commute. Oh, and Caltrain has an hour-plus delay at least monthly. I never had a driving delay that bad.
• closeparen 7y ago
  If your time is worth $0, yes. Depending on where you're coming from, it can easily turn a 45 minute commute into 2+ hours. Probably the biggest lever here is to dramatically increase housing supply near the suburban train stations (e.g. SB 50). It's not the train ride itself that kills you, but the trek across suburbia.