Niles Essanay SilentFilmMuseumI'm going to San Rafael on theater business today, and taking transit. Starting from the #RedwoodCity #CalTrain station.
soaproot@Essanay OK, us transit nerds are curious how. Golden Gate Transit bus? Ferry? SMART train? And for any of these choices, with what transfer from Caltrain?
@soaproot The way to glue all these things together is with a bike! Anyway, back home now, I'll post the rest of the adventure.
@soaproot Btw, I did consider GG Transit busses. I was not absolutely determined to use exclusively the funnest transit modes. Going to the Salesforce Transit Center and catching a bus would work, but wouldn't actually save time, mostly due to crosstown SF traffic.
There are other places you can get on the bus, and with a bike, you might be able to get to one of those (maybe over on Van Ness) and spend less time on the bus and have a quicker ride overall, *but* they have restrictions on where you can load/unload bikes so that's pretty much out.
But it was good to know that I missed the ferry home, I had options.
There are other places you can get on the bus, and with a bike, you might be able to get to one of those (maybe over on Van Ness) and spend less time on the bus and have a quicker ride overall, *but* they have restrictions on where you can load/unload bikes so that's pretty much out.
But it was good to know that I missed the ferry home, I had options.
@Essanay Since it is undisputed (and I will not dispute) that the ferry is the funnest method, you made a great choice.
And you have reminded me why the cycling advocates were so interested in that bike path from Larkspur to San Rafael.
You are correct that the Golden Gate Transit bus gets a lot faster once it makes it to Van Ness. But its biggest virtue is what you say: it runs at times of day before/after the first/last ferry.