Sure. The newest subway line runs down Third Street right to Candlestick Point (about 5 miles away from downtown). It would take over an hour and requires walki

Sure. The newest subway line runs down Third Street right to Candlestick Point (about 5 miles away from downtown). It would take over an hour and requires walking a mile. Or you could take the single bus line, which cuts your walk down to half a mile or so. You'll have to transfer to another bus that goes on the highway to downtown (so it will be absolutely awful during rush hour). Expected transit time is again 1 hour. Muni's on-time rate is 60%, so these are pretty optimistic numbers. Bus's don't keep to their schedule at all -- if they get to a stop early, they take off. The supposed 15 minute interval is laughable given the city's traffic patterns, it's just as likely for three buses to arrive simultaneously because they were all stuck in traffic for an hour. The city's infrastructure is simply not built for outlying neighborhoods to be viable living destinations for people who commute into the city for work. The highways are clogged and poorly designed (and don't connect through the city). The surface road stoplight system is one of the worst synchronized I have seen in the US. The bus and subway system is poorly run and starved for money on basic necessities. The subway system itself is terribly designed: all the lines run through the same underground portion, on the same rails, so the slightest hiccup blocks up every line. It's all solvable if you throw a lot of money and political will at it, but neither seems to be there. At least all of the buses are supposed to be replaced within a few years: they SORELY need it.