{"id":390,"date":"2005-10-29T09:22:07","date_gmt":"2005-10-29T09:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=390"},"modified":"2005-10-29T09:22:07","modified_gmt":"2005-10-29T09:22:07","slug":"rail_link_clarification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/rail_link_clarification\/","title":{"rendered":"Rail Link Clarification"},"content":{"rendered":"

Waaaah!
\nLet me clarify last week’s entry about US airports and rail links.
\nSFO does<\/u> have a rail link to the City. That’s technically correct. But the experience still sucks.
\nVerrry eariy this AM, I awoke at 0615 to get out of the house by 0715 to wait for MUNI<\/a> to get to the BART<\/a> station.
\nIn case you’re new here, MUNI<\/a> is hell on earth. MUNI sucks<\/a>. MUNI<\/a> is our local “Transit” system that always stops for red lights. Even if they’re green. And it will wait at that green light until it turns red.
\nThey also run at their own leisure. I waited 25 minutes for an overcrowded, filthy bus with the majority of people on it the kind I wouldn’t want to associate freely with in ANY way. And it ran SLOW! Slower than a UA “flight attendant” responding to the attendant call button in steerage.
\nThen (of course), the basi finally gets downtown. After 35 minutes of timing every red light on Geary Boulevard and stopping at practically every block.
\nYou can make the transfer to a BART train to SFO IF you have no baggage and run like-a hell. Of course, no mere mortal could do this. Except Superman, but if you were Kal-El<\/a>, son of Jor-El, you would fly yourself to LA instead of trying to catch a train.
\nLong story short is that once I entered the bowels of the Powell Street BART station, my mobile worked (Cingular) but I had to wait 18 minutes (remember, just missed the train?) for another SFO bound train.
\nIt took 30 minutes for the BART train to travel 14 miles, including the train coming to a dead stop and waiting for several minutes after Daly City station. Twice.
\nSooo, using my public school math, the BART train goes 28 miles an hour. Sooo fast!
\nThe BART link drops you off inside the International Terminal<\/a>. If you are flying UA domestic, it’s a 6 minute walk through the International Terminal before you get to Terminal 3. Coming off the horrible BART\/MUNI experience, entering the Int’l Terminal is like walking onto another planet.
\nIt’s clean. Pleasant. And NO BUMS.
\nThen you make your way to Terminal 3. It’s crowded. Not quite
\nas nice. But better than the journey you made to get here.
\nI’m hungry. Wonder what’s there to eat?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Waaaah! Let me clarify last week’s entry about US airports and rail links. SFO does have a rail link to the City. That’s technically correct. But the experience still sucks. Verrry eariy this AM, I awoke at 0615 to get out of the house by 0715 to wait for MUNI to get to the BART … <\/p>\n

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