San Francisco Transportation Tips by davequ

'Mode': AROUND
Category: Other
Getting TO/AROUND: Right outside the lobby of my favorite hotel (Hyatt Regency)
at the confluence / intersection of Market, Drumm & California is where California street originates and the California St. cable car starts its climb up to and over Nob Hill.

Costs about $3 for a ticket.
Heading west up California it intersects up on Nob hill by Chinatown with the North/South Powell Street cable car that runs from Market St./ Union Square down to the North bay / Ghiradelli / Fisherman's wharf.

Almost always packed, painfully slow, but very pleasing.
C'mon, we're tourists in the best city in America, you have to ride the cable cars. It's fun & it beats walking all the way up the hill.

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Website: http://www.sfcablecar.com/

'Mode': AROUND
Category: Subway/Metro
Getting TO/AROUND: Unlike most of the cities in the US I have been to or lived in, San Francisco imo has decent mass transportation.
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I honestly could stay here indefinitely without a car, and never miss a thing
(I can de-plane at SFO, hop on Bart, and be at my hotel in about 40 minutes for about $5.00 .....
try that in Colorado, TX, or LA...)

The muni, walking, and affordable & reliable cabs get me all over town safely, quickly and relatively hassle-free.
BART gets you almost anywhere in the Bay Area.
Here are the BART Fares & Schedules to download in PDF format.

Ferrry Service gets you over the water to Marin County.

Lots of my friends commute into the City via BART regularly & painlessly from Walnut Creek, Oakland, etc.

I have found the MUNI to be safe, clean, and somewhat reliable whenever I have used it (disclaimer... but I'm just a tourist, I don't depend on it everyday at rush hour....)

My favorite time-saving MUNI run is downtown metro (under Market St.) from Castro to Embarcadero.

MUNI INFO HERE:
MUNI 411

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Website: http://transit.511.org/index.asp

'Mode': AROUND
Category: Car/Motor Home
Getting TO/AROUND: GG gets all the attention, but I probably spend more time driving to / from east bay on the Bay Bridge.

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