Ask HN: Traffic in Bay Area?
I'm planning on relocating to the Bay Area this summer and would like to get a feel for the traffic from/to the San Francisco Bay Area from neighboring areas such as Oakland Hills (15.3 miles).
Any suggestions, tips, caveats? Mention your planned commute endpoints and times for
better responses. Mention urban driving experience
locations for comparisons. Traffic over the Bay Bridge (I-80W)
and its northern approaches (I-80W & I-580E) is quite
heavy at typical morning drive times. The rest of the
Bay Area is merely very heavy at those times.
BART is popular, but parking at BART stations fills early. Useful traffic resources include Google Maps typical traffic:
http://www.google.com/maps/@37.7,-122.26,11z/data=!5m1!1e1
http://www.sigalert.com/
http://traffic.511.org/index
http://www.mercurynews.com/mr-roadshow
http://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/ Edit:
approximate commute end points
Morning departure times: 8am, 10am
Evening departure times: 2pm, 6pm, 8pm
From Braemar Rd, Oakland, CA 94602, USA
To North Point St San Francisco, CA 94109 My urban driving experience locations are:
In/out of Washington DC 395N from Northern VA
459N Beltway
Richmond/VA Beach I-64
Baltimore
Pittsburgh You might want to get a FasTrak (if you haven't already), if you are driving. It sure beats digging for change for the toll. :) Or if you carpool during certain commute hours, you can be in the toll-free lane.