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> I don't live in SF, but I live in the area. I used to always feel trapped in SF I have the exact same experience. It's to the point where I think SF literall
by giantrobot 5y ago
> I don't live in SF, but I live in the area. I used to always feel trapped in SF
I have the exact same experience. It's to the point where I think SF literally hates anyone from outside the city. You have to live there to understand any of the public transit as it doesn't seem to work like that of anywhere else.
Despite being only an hour away I hate going there as driving and parking is a pain at best and downright dangerous at worst. Taking CalTrain or BART into the city isn't much better thanks to the inscrutable public transit.
- satronaut 5y agotbf, google maps does a great job with using the bus out there. Muni still sucks to be on, it's never on time etc., but at least you can get your route on google maps now. Been that way since at least 2012
- the_mar 5y agowhat's so hard abt the bus
- tesseract 5y agoYou can take SF Muni anywhere you want to go... as long as you want to go to the financial district/Market St. corridor. Seemingly more than other cities, the transit system is built around that particular commute which makes it frustrating if you're an out-of-towner trying to get to shopping/nightlife areas or to a friend's apartment. (And then there's BART which although it has the look and feel of a metro, has a network map more akin to commuter rail.)
- chrisan 5y agoWow really? I grew up in the midwest and when we first moved to SF I was amazed by all the public transit, never having access to anything before. It was definitely intimidating at first, and we somehow managed to take a bus to the port where the driver made us get out b/c he was going on break. After that mistake it seemed pretty easy, and this was before iPhones