Published on Thursday September 29, 2005 .
When I first contemplated the idea of riding a bike in San Francisco a couple of years ago, it was pretty terrifying. Of course, this was when I still lived in Berkeley and was kind of scared of going to (much less even driving in) San Francisco, and I hadn't ridden a bike since high school. "It's like a video game," Tyler tried to convince me.
The thought of riding a bike in the city was a little less scary a year ago, but only because I had gotten over my fear of the city itself, and was now just dealing with the idea of riding a bike in it. The idea of having to ride over those hills didn't help much, though.
But I finally bought a bike and I've been riding to CalTrain a couple of days a week, and y'know what? It's not so bad. In fact, it is like a video game, what with dodging buses and the stuff the kids in the western addition like to throw at me. Heck, there's even a time limit in the morning, and if I lose I miss my train.
But then Mark had to go and point out that the only problem is you only get one life in this game. Point taken.
Published on Thursday September 29, 2005 .
Caltrain "Reinvention" Adds 10 Trains, Faster Trips - This is a couple of months old, but now that I think about it, "Caltrain Reloaded" obviously would have been a much better advertising campaign, because the main thing they did was add more Baby Bullets to their service.
Published on Thursday June 19, 2003 .
As a person who may soon have the option of commuting somewhere where CalTrain would be useful, I admit I'm excited by the new Millbrae BART station (Or here's CalTrain's version of the story) that opens this weekend. Being able to transfer directly from BART to CalTrain will be a big deal going both ways, and this article discusses why it'll be more significant than the SFO connection that's part of the same package. Now that BART connects to CalTrain on the Peninsula, there's really no reason for them to continue expansion there.
By the way, still no (good) net at home, and I'm going out of town this weekend. Updates will continue to be ... nonexistent.