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There's also great (by American standards) public transit into/through the city. Caltrain and BART can get you into SF quickly from quite a large area nearby.
by teaearlgraycold 9mo ago
There's also great (by American standards) public transit into/through the city. Caltrain and BART can get you into SF quickly from quite a large area nearby.
- socalgal2 9mo ago"by American standards" is doing a lot of lifting. On a scale of 1 to 10 I'd give SF about a 4 compared to cities like Tokyo, Paris, Berlin, London, Amsterdam, Seoul, Singapore, ...
- jnathsf 9mo agoCaltrain is no slouch - punctual, clean, safe, really good wifi, electric.
- lazide 9mo agoIt also doesn’t get you around the city (and isn’t near any significant number of schools). It is good for getting in and out, assuming you already have a way of getting to the Caltrain station which isn’t exactly in the center of the city.
- teaearlgraycold 9mo agoEventually Caltrain will go to Salesforce tower
- Jensson 9mo agoThat is the baseline, not a high bar.
- mapotofu 9mo agoI don’t understand the boosters saying BART and Caltrain are good systems. When I lived there, and part of the reason I left, those systems were frequently delayed, full of drug addicts, and they lacked comprehensive service throughout SF, requiring dependence on Muni, which is worse than the other 2. I don’t think those who say this is a great system have been exposed to how other places in the world handle these things.
- gundmc 9mo agoI've never experienced any of these on Caltrain in the last ~10 years, for what it's worth.
- Aloisius 9mo agoReally? You haven't seen frequent delays in the last decade? Not even for the (sadly) semi-regular pedestrian fatalities that happen once or twice a month? Those usually delay trains for over an hour. Caltrain's own reports say there are hundreds of late trains every month.
- dietr1ch 9mo agoMaybe you were the drug addict?
- teaearlgraycold 9mo ago1. I live and work around BART stations so it works well for me 2. I just ignore the drug addicts 3. The delays are there but it all works well enough to be very useful
- physicsguy 9mo agoI've been to San Francisco twice with work. The last time was in 2018. I caught a Muni bus, the drive drove past someone at a stop who was in a wheelchair and was signalling to be picked up, another passenger challenged the driver, and the driver shouted something like "I don't want no cripple pee pee-ing on my bus"
- ThePowerOfFuet 9mo ago>great (by American standards)