As such, depending on where you’re staying and where you’ll be traveling, it can be relatively convenient, easy, and fun to visit LA without renting a car. And, unlike Chicago, LA’s rapid transit network has been expanding fairly quickly in recent years, largely thanks to several Los Angeles County referenda in which voters approved sales tax increases to fund transportation projects including rail expansion. While many sustainable transportation advocates view Los Angeles as a worst-case scenario for car-centric urban planning, my impression is that transit in Los Angeles is a lot better than one might think. Here’s a show-and-tell of my impressions of the transportation stuff I experienced along the way, including a few things I’d be glad to see implemented in Chicago. Then I returned to the Bay Area for the following weekend, and flew home from San Francisco. After that I rented a car to visit my aunt in the Clear Lake area (yes, I do drive once in a while), about 2.5 hours north. I flew into Los Angeles and spent a weekend there, then rode Amtrak’s scenic Coast Starlight train to Oakland.
Being a sustainable transportation reporter and geek, I naturally took lots of photos of the walk/bike/transit infrastructure along the way. In late February I took a trip to California to visit family and friends.
It is designed to give you the best route, using all available public transportation, even if BART is not part of the trip.Thanks to the editors of Streetsblog California, Streetsblog LA, and Streetsblog San Francisco for input on this piece. The Trip Planner App is run by BART, but also includes information for other Bay Area transit agencies. We used the Dublin Civic Center as our starting point and San Jose State University as the end point. Many people who live in and around Dublin work in San Jose, so that is where we headed. We started our commute in Dublin, an area with lots of homes and not so many jobs. We put it to the test in a ride with no car involved.īUILDING A BETTER BAY AREA: BART Week 2020 Just over a year ago, BART launched a new Trip Planner app to help you find your way and figure out how much your trip will cost. That means many riders have to transfer, sometimes multiple times and between multiple agencies. SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) - BART may be the closest thing the Bay Area has to a regional public transit agency, but there are a lot of places it does not go. ABC7 News put it to the test in a ride with no car involved. BART launched a new Trip Planner app a year ago to help you find your way and figure out how much your trip will cost.
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