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"transit accessible parts of pa/mv" wat. What transit system serves Palo Alto and/or Mountain View? CalTrain is about it, and it only goes northwest from ther
by philsnow 14y ago
"transit accessible parts of pa/mv"
wat.
What transit system serves Palo Alto and/or Mountain View? CalTrain is about it, and it only goes northwest from there (up the peninsula, and housing isn't any cheaper up there).
Unless you were talking about VTA, but nobody takes VTA. There was a bit on (I think) a freakonomics podcast sometime in the last year saying that at current VTA ridership levels, it "costs" the environment less (in terms of carbon emissions) for a person to drive rather than taking the bus, because so few people take the bus.
- rdl 14y agoYes, I'm specifically talking about Caltrain, specifically to San Francisco. People live in SF for reasons other than cost, and work in MV/PA/MP. And even at the level of individual stops with baby bullet service being prioritized -- University Ave is more expensive than California Ave, partially for this reason. Rents go from $5-7 in downtown PA (University) and $3-5 in downtown MV (Castro) to $1-2 in the Hillview Ave/HP/etc. part of PA, or the weird ghettoey area where YC/old Hacker Dojo/etc. are (which is about 8-10 blocks from downtown MV). There's really no great transit in the Bay Area. BART and Caltrain, if you're going on stops directly on the route, are the best. If you were going solely by transit accessibility at least cost, Millbrae would seem like the natural pick, but it kind of sucks.