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[cyrano]

My commuting friends, I come to glean the wealth of your experience!
Tomorrow, after work, I must make my way from Evelyn and Bernardo in Mountain View up to University and Shattuck in Berkeley.
Where should I avoid? Where should I try to get to?
Would I be best served to simply get to BART in Fremont? (Augh. Then I have to think about how and when to get back.)

Comments

[lil-m-moses.livejournal.com]

I'm a bit out of the present, but IME, if you're going to go to the trouble to getting to the Fremont BART station, you may just as well keep on driving all the way to Berkeley since you're already halfway there and the 237/880 bits getting into Fremont are the slowest anyway.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

What if I took 237 to 101 and then 101 up to 84 or 92 to 880?

[lil-m-moses.livejournal.com]

IME, the bridges aren't really any faster (it's the getting to them that's a bitch, plus everyone and their dog lives in the East Bay and works on the peninsula).

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

I was just thinking that if I went that way, I'd avoid the 237/880 interchange.

[lil-m-moses.livejournal.com]

You would, but the Dumbarton and San Mateo bridge approaches are just as bad, and the Dumbarton is a big chunk of what creates the Fremont nonsense. The 237/880 interchange was much improved even a couple of years ago as they were progressing on the ramp construction. Unless they've torn something else up there in the meantime, I still think it's the best of 3 evils for that time of day.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Cool. Thank you.