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Well on the plus side, with the Bay Area, there's plenty of other relatively affordable areas to purchase if one has a car.
by colmvp 14y ago
Well on the plus side, with the Bay Area, there's plenty of other relatively affordable areas to purchase if one has a car.
- wherewhenwhy 14y agoOr rides BART. Of course, you then have to live near BART (or drive to BART) and then contend with the ZOMG GERMS!!1Eleven!
- colmvp 14y agoWell that and the fact that BART doesn't run 24/7 like New York's MTA. I have despised situations where I had to sprint to the BART station near closing time, lest I spend a ridiculous amount for a cab.
- heretohelp 14y agoTbqh, this kills the bay area for me, socially speaking. NYC was way...way better in this respect.
- colmvp 14y agoAbsolutely. It's actually a terrible situation compared to the flexibility of NY, which had great livable areas in Queens and Brooklyn that still had fantastic access to public transit.
- mycodebreaks 14y agoOr you can ride Caltrain. The downside is the accidents on Caltrain tracks. It will literally take 2 hours to get to Mountain View from SF when there is an accident.
- richardjordan 14y ago...or when (like the weekend of the first AngelHack event) you are delayed because your train hits a pedestrian (a horrendous sound by the way - you know exactly what's just happened immediately) then the replacement train is delayed because the next train in front hit a second pedestrian. They need to sort out the grade separation, it's just ridiculous, not to mention tragic.
- mycodebreaks 14y agoTotally agree.I wonder why Caltrain is inefficient at times. What prevents Caltrain to do better in terms of keeping up with schedule? Also, there must be a way to keep fare reasonably cheaper than cost of driving a car to work.
- richardjordan 14y agoIt's a lack of willingness to invest in the infrastructure. Which is a chicken/egg thing - legislators won't vote for investment as voters don't support something that doesn't deliver value.
- prodigal_erik 14y agoDon't laugh, the old porous BART seats are objectively filthy and I'm glad they're being replaced (albeit slowly): http://www.baycitizen.org/transportation/interactive/intimate-look-bart-seat-mold-bacteria/ http://www.baycitizen.org/transportation/interactive/intimat... Me, I live near SOMA so I can stumble home when essentially everything but taxis is shut down.
- tsotha 14y agoBART is horrible. There aren't many trains and they never do maintenance on the rails so it's noisy as hell.