How to Ride the BART Train from the San Francisco Airport to Downtown San Francisco (July 27, 2023)
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- Опубликовано: 29 июл 2023
- I visited San Francisco for the first time, and I needed to figure out how to get from the airport to the Downtown area via the train. I loaded $10 to my account through the Clipper App and Google Pay. This video begins in the San Francisco Airport at Terminal 2 (Concourse C). I find the Air Train to take me to the International Terminal, where the BART train is located to take me to Downtown San Francisco. Filmed on July 27, 2023.
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Thank you for the video. I’ll be doing this in a few weeks and you answered two questions that I had.
Great Video - Thanks for all the info.
It helped me a lot, I go from Sao Paulo to San Francisco to get to Napa Valley, it helped me
Thanks for the feedback, I'm glad it helped! 😀
Public transportation in Napa is the worst I've seen.
Was that a ticket you download first? Or an app? When you access to the bart area? Does it have a cost? How much time it took to arrive?
For Android phones, I used Google Pay. In Google Pay, you search for Clipper, and then there's a way to load funds to it, and then utilize them like the way I did in the video. There are some instructions about that here: www.bart.gov/tickets#:~:text=Hold%20your%20iPhone%2C%20Apple%20Watch,to%20move%20your%20phone%20around.
The route I took, from the Airport to Civic Center Station (Downtown), was 31 minutes.
Also, I paid $10 for this in 2023. On January 1, 2024, there was a 5.5% increase in fare, so now I'd have to load $10.55 for the same trip.
Will the process be the same to get into BART station from Oakland International Airport as well, because I am going to land at that airport?
The process itself should be similar. I found someone who showed getting to BART from the Oakland Airport, it looks like you walk outside briefly to get to the station: ruclips.net/video/Q1y4OP8F4cg/видео.htmlsi=1ap4OVQJJgdXyvYT
@@PokoTravelerThanks a lot
It's similar but not exactly the same.
Fares and schedules and station maps are at www.bart.gov.
For both SFO and OAK, you need a plastic clipper card with loaded money or the Clipper app on your phone. BART stopped using paper tickets which you could buy at the station a few years ago. If you don’t have a Clipper card, you can buy one from a machine for $3 using a debit or credit card. After buying the card, you still need to add money to pay the fares.
At SFO the BART station is indoors at the NW corner of the International terminal (or take AirTrain (free) to “Garage G-BART Station” from any terminal). At OAK, the airport BART station is outdoors in the parking lot between terminals 1 and 2. If you go outside, you’ll see it. Usually, you use your Clipper card to get into the station and then use it again to get out, and it deducts the fare based on how far you rode. I mention this because the OAK airport station is different. Small automated trains (not regular BART trains) run back and forth between the airport station and Coliseum Station. You only need to use a Clipper card at the Coliseum Station end of the trip, not the OAK airport end, because all trips are the same length and cost the same (presently $7.10).
Once you’re at Coliseum Station, you have a choice of regular BART trains into San Francisco (including to the San Francisco airport) or north toward Richmond or toward Pittsburg, or south toward San Jose or south and east toward Dublin and Pleasanton. The typical train frequency is roughly three trains per hour for each destination. Some trips will require you to change trains, and I recommend using the Trip Planner at bart.gov. This is a tab where you can enter your starting station (e.g., “Coliseum BART Station, Oakland” and destination station (e.g., “Civic Center / UN Plaza BART Station, San Francisco” (just type the first few letters and it will give you a list of choices). This will show you the schedule for the next few trains along with any transfer information.
Note: Once you have a Clipper card it can also be used for all San Francisco buses and muni trains, ferries, cable cars, and East Bay buses. If more than one person is riding, each person needs their own card.
Can you give me the BART fare chart please?
I thought you had a comment before about iPhone and Clipper; there are instructions here. You should register an online Clipper account through the app, and then you can add it to your Apple Wallet to add funds: www.clippercard.com/ClipperWeb/clipper-app
For BART fares, check out the fare calculator here: www.bart.gov/tickets/calculator
For example, a one way ticket from the Oakland Airport to the same spot that I got off (Civic Center in SF) is $12, according to the calculator.
Hello, is it safe to take subway here? Because I saw a lot of news about this city with negative reviews.
I love doing travel videos in new cities, so when I was coming to San Francisco for the first time, I was a little guarded because I kept hearing about how the homeless problem and people lingering on the streets was out of control in San Francisco.
In reality, it was fine -- it was no different than any other big city in the United States. I'm not saying that homelessness isn't an issue; and I'm sure there are certain areas that I didn't walk around in which it's pretty bad. But I covered a decent amount of ground in several hours of going through Downtown, and I didn't feel on edge once. Here are a couple of my videos from Downtown:
ruclips.net/video/Yuv8D4A0ciQ/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/I4nJv_PSDBE/видео.html
Likewise, the subway seemed safe enough. Just mind your own business, understand that you might see people acting unusual, but typically they just mind their own business too.
@@PokoTraveler Thank you for your patient reply! I'll watch following videos later. Too much reviews and reports about how dangerous the city is on social media. Therefore, this made me concerned about the safety of the city and made me hesitant to apply to college located in the downtown 😂😂
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Almost all BART trains have homeless crazies sleeping on them. Can be an uncomfortable experience.
Nope. They introduced police foot patrols last year and it's been fine lately.
I feel immune to it, because I see it from the Cleveland airport all the time. Although they are mostly just sleeping.
It has not been my experience.