thanks, glad you all liked the pics!
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Originally Posted by BTinSF
From downtown SF to downtown Oakland is about 20 minutes by BART, much of it spent under the Bay. Much of Oakland is more convenient to downtown SF than the outer reaches of SF itself (a fact that the people who live in those outer reaches complain about a lot) because BART is entirely grade-separated (subway or elevated) whereas plenty of the Muni light rail to SF's outer neighborhoods isn't.
SJ is a good deal further--it can take 3 hours or more by car in rush hour. On CalTrain it's 1 hour on the express that makes the fewest stops, more like 1.5 hours on the local.
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I think you're exaggerating just a little, aside from the Caltrain time. BART to Oakland takes maybe 10 minutes from Embarcadero station, and 3 hours to SJ? During rush hour worst case scenario traffic maybe. Most of the time I've driven it's taken anywhere from 45 minutes to 2 hours, depending on how bad traffic is and how fast you drive (also whether you take 280 or 101).
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Originally Posted by ShadowMaster
You fed my curiosity, I was curious about SJ and when I would be able to see a thread on SSP! The whole Bay Area is interesting, 3 significant/respective cities composing the area, almost triangular from where each are situated, S.F, OAK, S.J.
I gather from downtown S.F & downtown OAK to downtown SJ is about 1 hour away ?
S.J is rather interesting, being one of my first times viewing it street level, the city contains some low/mid rise scrapers, quite more urbanized that I previously thought, and contains many storefronts. Interesting thread, I'll be looking for more of San Jose here in the future.
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Like BTinSF said, the skyline is held back by the airport being so close, so the FAA set a pretty low height limit. Downtown is actually pretty urban and vibrant though, which surprised me the first time I really explored it. It's a nice place, that to me feels both busy and relaxed at the same time. Most neighborhoods do sprawl out pretty badly though.
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Originally Posted by ltsmotorsport
Been at that train station many times. And a taqueria with a neon sign can't possibly have the best Mexican in the world.
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Haha, it may seem that way, but in my opinion that sign is actually correct in it's statement that they have the best Mexican food in the world (well, tacos quesadillas and burritos at least...because that's all they serve). I've never been to that La Taqueria, but the original is in San Francisco's Mission district, and it's been there since the 1970's, so they must be doing something right (they have a much bigger neon sign too). I recommend it highly...only problem is their prices have gone up a lot in the past few years, probably because the yuppie hordes got wind of the place, and they can afford to pay out the ass for food. That place is maybe my favorite single restaurant in existence, no joke. Gotta defend it's delicious honor. Oh yeah they have really good aguas frescas too. (damn, this is what happens when posting while hungry
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Originally Posted by Kingofthehill
All the great SF hoods and you give us this sprawl sh*thole?
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Don't worry, the SF neighborhood fix will be replenished soon.