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This would be the hidden cost of not having Bart-around-the-Bay. (A somewhat wonkish assessment of what Bard-Down-The-Peninsula would look like: http://caltrai
by ghshephard 14y ago
This would be the hidden cost of not having Bart-around-the-Bay.
(A somewhat wonkish assessment of what Bard-Down-The-Peninsula would look like: http://caltrain-hsr.blogspot.com/2010/05/top-10-reasons-for-peninsula-bart.html http://caltrain-hsr.blogspot.com/2010/05/top-10-reasons-for-...)
- enf 14y agoBART around the bay wouldn't actually address the problems that the shuttles do, though. If BART had been built in San Mateo County, it would have followed the Caltrain right of way, which isn't anywhere near companies like Google and Apple. For companies that are actually centrally located in the peninsula cities, there is Caltrain.
- panda_person 14y agoUm, that was a sorta counterfactual post-I'm very familiar with that website, and I'm pretty sure it was merely a hypothetical, and that Clem and most people there prefer Caltrain. Which is faster. Roomier. Has restrooms. And you can eat or drink.
- zem 14y agoand has one train an hour for much of its day.
- seanmcdirmid 14y agoThere is always Caltrain. Anyways, even if Bart went all the way to south bay, I'm sure these buses would still run as Bart would have too many stops, would be too slow and uncomfortable. If you have a lot of people coming from the same places and going to the same place, why not provide a dedicated bus that is virtually point to point? Seattle had (has?) express buses to Boeing that worked under the same principle. These were provided by the public transit agencies, however. Then Microsoft came out with the Connector, which is similar to the Google model.