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Re:How not to create traffic jams: Don’t let people park for... by sidlls on Saturday April 08, 2017 @03:12PM (#14068469)
In the Bay Area it's a joke either to drive or rely on public transportation. Choose the former and suffer in a slow-moving traffic jam in all directions. Choose the latter and be at the mercy of tepid schedules and relatively frequent delays. I live 25 miles by road from my office. Whether I drive to work or take Caltrain/BART my commute (including biking or driving to the train station) is a minimum of 70 minutes one-way.

Traffic and transportation are hard problems, but this area seems to always choose terrible solutions for either of them.

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Re:How not to create traffic jams: Don’t let people park for... by mahyarm on Saturday April 08, 2017 @06:05PM (#14069310)
You must live in the south bay. People in SF use public transport quite a bit and I commute in using BART every day.

Caltrain is pretty horrible schedule wise.

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Re:How not to create traffic jams: Don’t let people park for... by sidlls on Saturday April 08, 2017 @06:17PM (#14069371)
Nope, my office is in the city. I live in San Mateo and take either the San Mateo or Burlingame station depending on my mood and how far I want to bike on a given day.

My experience with the Muni system in the city is that it is less than dependable. Frequent backups, delays or even skipped trains seem to be normal. When I have to use the Muni I basically leave work 10-15 minutes earlier than when I first started this job just because I can rely on the unreliability of the Muni system.

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Re:How not to create traffic jams: Don’t let people park for... by drdeadringer on Saturday April 08, 2017 @04:58PM (#14069003)
How does pre-planning and forethought not get mitigate "tepid schedules"? Yes, I could want to go to an event all the way up in San Francisco whilst Caltrain shuts down at midnight, but that means only that I have a few decisions to make.
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