The San Francisco Airport is about 2 miles from caltrain, so one would think public transportation would be a viable and thrifty method to get between the two. One would be sorely mistaken.
On behalf of my youngest sister, I've been looking up ways to get in between the two and apparently, to get from SFO to Millbrae station (home to BART and caltrain), one has to take airbart to San Bruno BART (caltrain also has a san bruno station you can alledgely transfer to, but is a MILE away), then BART one station to Millbrae. For a total cost of $6.90. For 2 miles. At 15 minutes, if you time the 2 transfers right. Hah, not likely. The trip down from Millbrae to Mountain View station, where somebody else will have to pick her up in a car, is $4.25 (and 24 miles away).
This is so nonsensical!!! When getting of a plane, one has very few options. Your suitcase keeps you from walking, and you can't put a bike on a plane. So BART decides to charge a $4 surcharge for exiting the airport. And taxi's have a $2 surcharge (so that 2 mile trip is $11). We. Are. Just. Trying. To. Save. The. World. People. Throw us a bone! Public transit should not take at least 2x longer, and cost 2x more! What kind of viable business plan is that?
The kicker being, of course, that before BART, there was a free shuttle from Caltrain to SFO, and the biggest kicker of all being that it had a ridership of 350 people/day. Not viable. California is a convoluted and inefficient amalgamation of patchwork legislation, touted and passed under the guise of progress, but instead, makes life harder for us all. And no, that's not necessarily a dramatization. Just ask our fleeing businesses.
No comments:
Post a Comment