Very impressive, Adam. In 1996, I did this in an abbreviated fashion (no North Bay.). I took Muni from my flat in the Castro to Caltrain in SF. Then took the train to Palo Alto to meet my partner at his lab there and have dinner (he had the car, so that's why I took public trans). Then I took SamTrans across the Dumbarton Bridge to Fremont, where I then caught BART to Berkeley (I had an extension class at UC Berkeley that evening). When that was over, I took BART back to SF, then Muni back home. This was almost 30 years ago (😱), and I was amazed it worked.
Live in Jack London Square, work in North San Jose, dinner with friends in Palo Alto. 1) BART to Milpitas, 2) Bus 20 to my office, 3) Bus 20 to Sunnyvale, 4) Caltrain to Palo Alto, 5) Caltrain to Millbrae, 6) BART to Lake Merritt
Im a huge transit nerd and I always hear SF people hate on BART, but I find it actually pretty awesome after moving here from NYC! Although it doesn't cover as much, pair it with MUNI and its a much more pleasant ride than the MTA.
that’s because BART is ghetto as hell and nasty as hell, always homeless people doing some weird things on the train, it’s a good transit system but homeless people ruined it, that’s why people love going on Caltrain to San Jose, because Caltrain actually kicks people out without ticket, trust me don’t ever go in the bathroom in a bombardier set, it smells horrifying but depends if it’s busy
that’s because BART is ghetto and nasty, Caltrain is always the most preferred option to San José, from Oakland, I do recommend BART since Amtrak is pretty expensive but take disinfecting wipes on board since homeless people be doing some stuff on that train.
@@sixfifty_sebb Yeah, that's just weirdo propaganda from people who are afraid of "black people from Oakland". In reality about 100-150 crimes happen on BART every month. And about 1.2 million unique riders take about 4 million BART rides every month. BART is, in the real world, extremely safe. A lot safer than most Bay Area neighborhoods. And Caltrain is only marginally safer than BART, but not every month. They actually swap places back and forth month to month. BART is also about 10x safer than regular metro/subway systems like the NY Subway or the Paris Metro. Which shouldn't be surprising since BART is more of a commuter rail hybrid than a real subway. You need to understand that there's propaganda and then there's real life. We get a literal count, not statistics, a literal count from BART every month of every crime that happens. It's really not that many given the rather insane number of riders that BART serves.
Despite living in the Bay Area for my entire life, I've not gone to these areas as much as I wish I could've. Growing up just on the outskirts of it really does something. Raised in the suburbs, born to be a city boy. Cutting the jokes these videos are inspiring me to go out and travel more around the Bay Area. This is coming from someone in Antioch.
When I was a civil engineering grad student at San Jose State late 2010s, I did the Bay public transit grand tour for a class. From Milpitas, take the VTA light rail to Mountain View, Caltrain to SF, little walk down Mission to the ferry to Jack London square, AC Transit to Bart to what was the Fremont station terminus, then VTA bus back to the Great Mall to complete the loop. It's a great way to complete the Bay circuit within the Bay Bridge.
You can now do this same Bay loop on just rail! BART to Millbrae, transfer to Caltrain at Millbrae, transfer to VTA light rail at Mountain View, transfer back to BART at Milpitas BART station and complete the loop.
i do stuff like this a lot in the bay area! and the wondering "what are these people doing on this bus" is so relatable haha. i really enjoyed this video and i'm tempted to try this myself and document it.
It's nice to see the positivity for the bay area! I hear lots of people who have never been there talk up the bad, but being from Sacramento with the previous 2-3 generations of family being from the bay area, I've always had the impression of it being "The Place" to be. It beats our paradise-like weather, has usable public transit, and has so many places of interest. It's no wonder its some of the most valuable land in the world.
As soon as I saw the title, my first thought was the Ferry system. I've done the junior version before, amtrak to Diridon, Caltrain to SF, Ferry to Jack London, and BART back home.
Yeah I really wasn't sure how to title this one. "I went around the outside of the san francisco bay by public transit only and also set a world record I think" was just way too long. Ferries don't go around the outside, but if they did... I love the ferry.
Somewhere in Petaluma (but in what proximity to the bus station I know not) there's a "SMART" train station which you could have ridden to the end of the line in Larkspur. From there a short walk to the ferry terminal to SF ⛴️ But I assume that would have taken longer and you would not have made 5pm, most likely. I wasn't sure if the ebike ride was "cheating" but I have ridden around the Bay on my bike in less than 8 elapsed hours from Berkeley to the Dumbarton, north to the GG bridge to San Rafael-Richmond Bridge. The "Big Loop" like you did is also possible by bike but definitely would take more than 8 hrs. Great adventure 🚆🚍🚍🚉🚄🚆😮
I also did that version (and have a video about it), but I took Amtrak to Diridon, VTA to Mountain View, Caltrain to Millbrae, BART to Balboa, Muni to Embarcadero, Ferry to Oakland, San Joaquins to Martinez, and then Amtrak back home! :)
Bro I didn't look at the channel before watching the entire video and when I found out you have less than 50K Subs I was mindblown. The camera work and editing is spot on, and the engagement is great. Keep it up!
For a region of this size I think our transit is really good. And I can't tell you how many times I've run for connection and it didn't work out. Glad this one made you smile!
“Endurance” was one of the best books I’ve ever read. Absolutely incredible story. Love your Bay Area adventure videos. I’ve lived here for 30 years but I guess I’m always the one doing the driving, so it’s nice to be a passenger for once!
Kudos to you! I’ve lived in the Bay all my life and have only once or twice ever been to the North Bay. Your video is proof we need more investment in public transit, and rail infrastructure.
Living here in the bay this is incredible. This has given me some great ideas. Nothing to this big of a scale but definitely on this line of thought I love it.
Represent ! Love all the videos that are Bay Area related! Even as a native, there is so much out there to explore still in the Bay. Transit was a huge part of my life as a child taking it to Chinatown and the Marina for school! The only time I take transit now is the BART from the East to visit family members who are still in San Francisco!
I travel a lot between SF, south and east bay, so it was fun seeing you take some of my routes. Glad you did the Mountain view to VTA light rail transfer. It saves you time getting out of San Jose Caltrain. I’ve never done the San Pablo bay parts on public transit, so that was fun to see! Keep at it! Love your channel!
Mini-adventure at home was cool. I was forced to look at public transportation options when I started commuting to Fremont from San Francisco. It opened my eyes to mixed-modal transportation and personal electric vehicles. I didn't want to sit in traffic so I learned how to commute using public transportation along with electric scooters, electric bikes, Onewheels and electric unicycles which all make commutes so much more engaging. I don't need to commute any longer but love riding around metropolitan areas on my electric unicycle. Anytime you are on an electric unicycle it is a great mini-adventure.
I live about 7 minutes away from the Bart station in San Jose. I always thought about doing something like this when I have some free time. A nice little mini adventure!
Me and a few friends actually did a bit of a shortened version of this back in November; we got on BART in stages from El Cerrito, Berkeley, and Fruitvale down to Milpitas, VTA to Diridon, Caltrain to Millbrae, BART to Balboa Park, MUNI Metro and bus to various places around SF, a ferry ride to Jack London in Oakland, then splitting off there to BART and AC Transit home. I would love to attempt the full version, though it'd definitely be a hard ask for five people!
Cool! Honestly your version sounds more fun. I did the Ferry to Larksburg then SMART train up to Santa rosa for another video. I didn't go around anything, I'd recommend that before getting back on that Amtrak bus!
So glad that you found the Amtrak bus connection, and just in time! When you were heading to Vallejo, I was worried knowing that there are ZERO regular/local service transit options between Napa and Sonoma Counties. Seems like a big missing link. SMART is slated to extend to Solano County one day, so that should close this gap and make the challenge easier.
Me too! That was one of a few moments where I thought I wasn't going to be able to make this video. I just assumed there would be a bunch of options in the north bay. Excited for the SMART train expansion.
I’m Dutch and I was amazed by the difference in quality and frequency between the systems here and what I saw in your video. Very interesting, I didn’t know it was that big, but apparently we are blessed here
I will never forget the light rail running through perfectly manicured grass in Rotterdam. Europe is of course much more densely populated. But you sure do have it good
The bay area is annoying because so much of the transportation is set up at the county level. So you have 7+ independent county transit systems, plus BART, Caltrain, and Amtrak between them. It means weak spots can easily fall through the gaps.
I saw two reporters ride every transit system in the bay area in one day and post about it on twitter. I would love it if you did a video traveling on every form of public transit in a day. I am really enjoying your videos great work
Impressive. I’ve rode on every mode of transportation in this video just not in the same day of course lol. Now I’m inspired to go around the Puget Sound using every form of Public Transportation up here in Seattle! There’s a lot of similarities the Puget Sound has with the Bay in terms of getting around. LINK-BART. Sounder Train-Cal Train. Muni-KCMetro. SF Bay Ferry-WA State Ferries, etc.
7:25 you missed a great opportunity to ride one of the best commuter light rail systems in the bay, the SMART train. It runs from Larkspur to Santa Rosa, and is much nicer than the golden gate transit busses.
This was great, and I can't believe you didn't plan out all the connections in advance! If I were doing it, I would pack a lunch, snacks, and map out all the bathrooms ahead of time😅
Hi Adam, I found your channel and wanted to say I really enjoy your videos. I have wanted to do this for a while, but I moved to the Bay Area in 2019 for college and have yet to do it. Anyway, thanks for the fun videos.
I moved to the Bay Area from Austin a year and a half ago, and in that time I’ve driven to all of these areas (I live in Walnut Creek). Really cool to learn you can actually get (literally) around the Bay on public transit!
I like the idea of 9-5 adventures. It's nice to have a word for such a thing - and I realize I was doing a lot of that in July and earlier this month, nearly every day. Source: rode each (non-express) VTA bus and light rail route end to end.
Back in the 80’s a reporter for the Contra Costa Times would do this every year … his stories were fascinating … he’s still around and I believe he’s working in the State Legislature …
I'm sad that I've never took the chance to go around the entire bay by bike while living there, the idea was always in my head with the ever so growing network of cyclist routes & parks being built around the bay's coast. Proud that someone could do it without a plan.
Nice. That’s something I would do. I just spent 2 days bike riding along the entire length of the Los Angeles River while I was staying in LA for a few days. Also, I used to live in the Bay Area and love it there. But most of my adventures are in NYC and environs now
Funny enough I’m planning to do this with friends but only the lower bay (SJ to SF to OAK and back) but I planned this a month in advance! YOUR’ER doing it on the spot and across the whole bay! Hats off to you 👏
Cool Bay Area transit video! Nice and wholesome! Note: BART is not a subway and you can't really use it like one. BART is a heavily interlined S-bahn type of system, designed around transfers. Unlike with a more subway/metro style of system, there are no single-line routes. All the lines start out in the deep suburbs and overlap with each other in the urban cores in SF and Oakland. You don't need to wait for the precise BART line that goes to your destination. Every destination in the system is accessible with at most one transfer! That's how interlined systems work vs the more single-line subway/metro systems like the NY Subway or the Paris Metro. BART works more like the LIRR in NYC or the Paris RER. The bottom line is that you get on whatever train shows up first and transfer to the train you need at the next transfer station. All the lines are timed in an extremely clever and complex way to make this possible with nearly zero time loss! So you didn't need to take the Orange line up to Richmond. You could have taken the Green line and transferred at West Oakland. This would have saved you the extra 10 minute wait for the Orange line train and you could have used the bathroom at Milpitas station.
Yeah I didn't explain that last part super well. I knew I could have transferred, but that would have added extra time. Things were going to so well that I felt like I should push for the best time. The smarter thing to do would have been to start at Lake Merritt so I could have taken either orange or green. I am always blown away by how on time BART trains are. When people make fun of American trains I always think... you should check out BART!
@@AdamDoesNotExist Ok, you're triggering my train nerd genes hard! Love the content by the way. Please do more Bay Area transit videos! Including ones where you head out of the Bay via transit to places like Monterey, Santa Cruz, Tahoe, etc.! Here comes the explanaion. Ironically, BART is actually a very on-time system, despite what some people say online. It simply has to be in order to function properly as designed. They don't really have a choice. They've had a bad couple of years recently because Alsom/Bombardier pooped the bed on the new train deliveries, and BART had to operate their old and crumbling fleet for a good extra four years. That fleet was already on its last legs and was breaking down all the time. And there were often no parts whatsoever to fix it properly. This drove down BART's on-time ranking for its historically stellar 97% (which is higher than the Tokyo Metro!!) to about 90% and sometimes 87%! This was extremely detrimental for a system like BART that is entirely built around timed cross-platform transfers. Some riders even forgot that the transfers existed because of how unusable they had become. But BART is now back up to 95% reliability with the all-new fleet, and climbing back to its historical average of 97%. So we're almost back to the normal BART of yesteryear! And this will only keep improving as they're ironing out the kinks with the new trains. The new trains are quite literally 2x more reliable than the old ones!
Thanks for all the info! The new trains are so good. I was actually going to film another transit related video yesterday. I don't want to give too much away, but they were single tracking through Orinda so had to delay. Hopefully next weekend!
Nice challenge! I did a similar thing where I had to transfer in every Bay Area county in one day. In a few years, they’re actually planning to have a bus along Hwy 37 between Vallejo and Novato/San Rafael every 30-60 min or so!
Wow! I'm starstruck. I was planning to do your BART route this past Saturday, but service on the yellow line messed up my plan. If I do make a video about it, you'll be in it! I love the story of you noticing that that Berekely student's route was faster... in reverse. Edit: And that the "berkeley record route" was initially your route is another amazing part of the story!
@@AdamDoesNotExist yea I can’t wait til it’s up to Cloverdale and better bay connections. You should check out the original BART plan that went to Cloverdale it’s insane how far it could’ve possibly gone
Another awesome SF Bay Area Adventure video especially when it's done on public transit! It kind of reminds me of the Total Muni and Total Transit Challenge that was embarked by Heather Knight and Peter Hartlaub 😀😀👍👍💯💯🚊🚊🚌🚍🚍🚇🚇🚎🚎🚋🚋
Glad you enjoyed it! I've never heard of the Total Transit Challenge, but just found the Chronicle article on Heather and Peter's Journey. Thanks for telling me about it!
Jeez, I want to try some of these now. Growing up in Redwood City and now living in Petaluma, it'd be fun to experience the area that I call home. Also, since I have a background in GIS, mapping these stops and public transit would be super interesting. Thank you Adam for doing these videos and hopeful I encounter you some time around the SF Bay Area!
i live in marin and rely on the public transit here and in the city! at around 9:26 there was a transfer of bus drivers!! they always swap out at the san rafael transit center bc the bus rides are really long. especially the 101 which goes from santa rosa to the mission. even going from san rafael it takes almost an hour just to get to the toll plaza. this video was so cool! lovely to see some north bay rep especially as someone who’s such a huge transit nerd. but yeah the transit here sucks leaving since there’s no bart connection. makes it take at least a couple hours to get to the east bay depending on the area and at least an hour and a transfer or two to get into the city.
Glad you liked it. I thought something like a driver transfer might be going on, but we were there for a while! Normally I'm a bit more relaxed, but this was a special day haha!
I didn’t have a driver’s license until after I graduated from college. At Cal, I didn’t need a car, and used BART, AC Transit & Golden Gate Transit to get places.
I'm pretty happy with the time I got, but this could absolutely be beaten. I don't know if this is the best route, but even if you stuck with this route there are faster ways to take the Amtrak bus, and Caltrain.
I did a similar transit loop but used the Richmond bridge as the Northern boundary because I knew there wasn't a regular bus service crossing the north rim of the bay. Wild how you made that work with the Amtrak thruway bus! A fun modification would have been taking the SMART train to connect Petaluma to San Rafael!
Wow, what a great video. This is actually something I have been wanting to do for the longest time. The depressing thing is the amount of completely empty stations. Public transit is only sustainable if people use it.
It was really fun to do. Keep in mind, I was taking most of these routes at times when they would be a bit less busy, and in the opposite direction of most commuters. The numbers aren't what they were pre pandemic, but transit is still crowded during heavy commute times!
New subscriber who grew up from the Bay. I'm really enjoying the recent content you're putting out. Keep the videos long. And you should hit up Santana Row/ Valley Fair and that would be the closest thing of how SF Westfield used to be.
Great video! I’ve planning for a long time to take the ACE train from SJ to Stockton, and somehow get home via other means of public transport. Another idea would be starting from South Bay, try go as far north as possible (thinking of SMART train etc) and fly home 😂
The furthest distance from south to north that I've found so far is from Gilroy to Cloverdale (via Caltrain, GGT 101, and Sonoma County Transit 60). Not sure how long it would take but It might be hard to do in a 9-5, especially if you're trying to get back the same day!
Impressive! I used to vacation out in the Bay area! I used only Public Transit to get around One of my adventures was to go from the City 🏙️ all the way down to the Gilroy Garlic Festival and back in a day! Here's how I did it: MUNI Bus to the Cal Train station which was at 4th and Townsend way back then! Cal Train down to the Cahill Station in San Jose Then a #67 VTA Bus to Joaquin and Miller and walk into the Festival from there! Reverse course for the return trip!
Fun! I would love to make a video at the garlic festival, but unfortunately they've been on hiatus for the past few years. It sounds like the city and the festival are having a hard time figuring out how to get past the tragedy a few years ago. Hopefully it comes back!
That was fun! It's also fun recognizing all the landmarks, or, landscape. It took me a moment to understand the Guinness connection 🤔Duh. But, can we talk about how disappointing it is that you can no longer find Bass Ale to pair with Guinness for a classic, Black & Tan??? There's a video idea, take a roadtrip to find Bass Ale! You find Pliney!
LOL. A long time ago (1976) I spent a winter in McMurdo, Antarctica as the station physician. While there, I read "Endurance" and couldn't sleep for a few nights. Now I live in San Francisco and was wondering how the heck you were going to get around the north end of the Bay. The rest of the trip should be a piece of cake. Having had all the adventure I need in Antarctica (and other places around the world), it never occurred to me to tackle a round the Bay on public transit trip. I mostly feared getting stuck in Vallejo (yeah, from there you can short circuit taking the ferry back to SF but that would be cheating).
I did this exact same trip to get to a hybrid internship a few times, and all for free thanks to the pilot BayPass program! BART to Caltrain to VTA to BART 😊
Vallejo represent! I'm a Soltrans driver and am quite familiar with the R line from El Cerrito. I would've loved it if you were on my bus as I love figuring out how to get around. Always wondered about the and assumed from VTC you catch the Vine (that cutaway bus you talked to at Vallejo) and from there they somehow connect to Marin. You should take up motorcycle riding. Every trip is an adventure.
Good thing you were able to take the Amtrak bus. There is a way to do the loop without it (Vallejo - Napa - Calistoga - Lakeport - Ukiah - Santa Rosa - San Francisco) but you never would have made it home by dinner or even the same day.
A couple months ago, I tried going from SF to LA only using public transit (no Amtrak, Greyhound, just local busses and BART in the bay). Did not take a day, but did it
This was an amazing video truly amazing. The adventure of getting lost in different cities is fun. But my question is is you wanted to prioritize enjoy those cities how many many cities and for how long. Let’s say 9am-9pm yes enjoy those cities different activities eating etc. Only complaint is when you get a higher budget would be nice for a graphic of everywhere you were and traveling there at that moment. I never been to SF and wanna have a vague idea of how things are. Looks beautiful but and I also care about the nighttime Energy/aesthetic from the cool parts
Thanks! If I did this again I think it would be more fun to do it with other people and do it a lot slower. And you're right it would just take a whole lot longer to add fancy graphics in and I really don't have that time. So I tried to talk about where I was, and where I was heading as much as possible.
I love this video and how it’s indirectly about you fulfilling your adventure needs. However, I also think this video is a great demonstration of the quality of the Bay Area public transportation. I just got back from a trip in Europe, and I was in Denmark and Sweden, and something that they really have done well there is their transportation.even in a place like the Bay Area that supposed to care more about its people, transportation still doesn’t live up to the quality that you will find in places in Europe or Japan
European transit is legendary. Though they do have an advantage with their population density. I'd say we do pretty well here considering the circumstances. If the transit 2050 plans actually take shape, then we're really in business!
@@AdamDoesNotExist true, what if that transportation guy runs for president? That would be cool. What are the 2050 plans? Btw, how can I email you for a business inquiry?
@@AnoahWang The Bay Area 2050 is a big urban planning project and part of that is focused on transportation. They want to extend bart, build a new transbay tube, etc. I saw a pretty cool map but can't seem to find it any more. And if you want to shoot me an email, there's an address in the description on my channel page.
I actually do this a lot since I live in Santa Clara and my family lives in Santa Rosa.(minus the san pablo bay portion) But due to the timing of it I usually do a full circle around the bay
There's a much faster version just around the San Francisco Bay proper (without San Pablo Bay which is only technically part of the Bay): * BART to Richmond. * Bus to the San Rafael SMART station. * Bus to SF via the Golden gate to SF, or the prettier version with a bus to Sausalito and ferry to SF from there. * Bus, Muni Metro, or walk to Caltrain. * Caltrain down to Mountain View. * VTA light rail to Milpitas. * And finally, BART back up to wherever you started from. This way is faster and much prettier, especially if you opt for the Sausalito ferry! There's some genuinely world class views on the way! Happy exploring!
Good video! And congratulations on breaking the world record. But I think you could've done it faster if you took the SMART train from Petaluma to Larkspur and then the ferry to SF.
I looked at the SMART train but it would have been slower unfortunately. The Ferry didn't quite meet my admittedly made up rules. It goes through the bay, not around.
dude, the minute you got to Vallejo, my immediate thought was "Ferry. take the ferry." Not saying Amtrak isn't a great alternate (cuz I didn't know it went out that way), but yeah.
I was really surprised by Vallejo! The transit area was nicer than Petaluma. Obviously the transit center isn't the full story of a town, but Vallejo...
I don’t like the fact that some BART lines only run every 20 minutes. I personally think they should discontinue the red and green lines and just run the yellow, blue, and orange lines every 10 minutes.
Yeah it's a grey area. They're operated by Lyft but subsidized by the city. They're also on city land and part of the city's public transportation plan, so good enough for me!
Last time I was in San Francisco I did a shorter version only covering the Southern portion of the bay so I could do it entirely by train. Starting at Powell St. in San Francisco, I took the Muni Metro to 4th & King; Caltrain to Mountain View; VTA Light Rail to San Jose Diridon; Amtrak Capitol to Oakland Coliseum & BART back to Powell. BART terminated at Fremont at the time so I couldn't catch it at Milpitas. Don't remember how long it took.
Vallejo is always tricky when it comes commuting to Petaluma area. I had no idea though that there was a bus. Good to know! On a side note, we use the Vallejo ferry to get to SF. Not sure if that would have been a technical cheat to go around the bay for you
Very impressive, Adam. In 1996, I did this in an abbreviated fashion (no North Bay.). I took Muni from my flat in the Castro to Caltrain in SF. Then took the train to Palo Alto to meet my partner at his lab there and have dinner (he had the car, so that's why I took public trans). Then I took SamTrans across the Dumbarton Bridge to Fremont, where I then caught BART to Berkeley (I had an extension class at UC Berkeley that evening). When that was over, I took BART back to SF, then Muni back home. This was almost 30 years ago (😱), and I was amazed it worked.
What a journey! I'm surprised you did all that. Feels like a day where you should have had the car! But now you've got the better story!
Live in Jack London Square, work in North San Jose, dinner with friends in Palo Alto. 1) BART to Milpitas, 2) Bus 20 to my office, 3) Bus 20 to Sunnyvale, 4) Caltrain to Palo Alto, 5) Caltrain to Millbrae, 6) BART to Lake Merritt
Did you go to Stanford?
@@AdamDoesNotExist Why can't the wife order dinner?
@@kh9242 what wife?
Im a huge transit nerd and I always hear SF people hate on BART, but I find it actually pretty awesome after moving here from NYC! Although it doesn't cover as much, pair it with MUNI and its a much more pleasant ride than the MTA.
Totally. You never get the stagnant humid below ground stations in the summer like you do in NYC. That's a plus in my book.
that’s because BART is ghetto as hell and nasty as hell, always homeless people doing some weird things on the train, it’s a good transit system but homeless people ruined it, that’s why people love going on Caltrain to San Jose, because Caltrain actually kicks people out without ticket, trust me don’t ever go in the bathroom in a bombardier set, it smells horrifying but depends if it’s busy
that’s because BART is ghetto and nasty, Caltrain is always the most preferred option to San José, from Oakland, I do recommend BART since Amtrak is pretty expensive but take disinfecting wipes on board since homeless people be doing some stuff on that train.
Im a public transit nerd too! Wherever I travel I use it to get around! My kids learned by traveling with me!
@@sixfifty_sebb Yeah, that's just weirdo propaganda from people who are afraid of "black people from Oakland". In reality about 100-150 crimes happen on BART every month. And about 1.2 million unique riders take about 4 million BART rides every month.
BART is, in the real world, extremely safe. A lot safer than most Bay Area neighborhoods. And Caltrain is only marginally safer than BART, but not every month. They actually swap places back and forth month to month. BART is also about 10x safer than regular metro/subway systems like the NY Subway or the Paris Metro. Which shouldn't be surprising since BART is more of a commuter rail hybrid than a real subway.
You need to understand that there's propaganda and then there's real life. We get a literal count, not statistics, a literal count from BART every month of every crime that happens. It's really not that many given the rather insane number of riders that BART serves.
Despite living in the Bay Area for my entire life, I've not gone to these areas as much as I wish I could've. Growing up just on the outskirts of it really does something. Raised in the suburbs, born to be a city boy.
Cutting the jokes these videos are inspiring me to go out and travel more around the Bay Area. This is coming from someone in Antioch.
Antioch is a great location! You're so much closer to Tahoe and all that the mountains offer as well!
When I was a civil engineering grad student at San Jose State late 2010s, I did the Bay public transit grand tour for a class. From Milpitas, take the VTA light rail to Mountain View, Caltrain to SF, little walk down Mission to the ferry to Jack London square, AC Transit to Bart to what was the Fremont station terminus, then VTA bus back to the Great Mall to complete the loop. It's a great way to complete the Bay circuit within the Bay Bridge.
You can now do this same Bay loop on just rail! BART to Millbrae, transfer to Caltrain at Millbrae, transfer to VTA light rail at Mountain View, transfer back to BART at Milpitas BART station and complete the loop.
Good call on the ferry, could he also take it to Marin county to do this same route
this is scare, my cat is sad
i do stuff like this a lot in the bay area! and the wondering "what are these people doing on this bus" is so relatable haha. i really enjoyed this video and i'm tempted to try this myself and document it.
Do it! I'd love to see your version of this!
It's nice to see the positivity for the bay area! I hear lots of people who have never been there talk up the bad, but being from Sacramento with the previous 2-3 generations of family being from the bay area, I've always had the impression of it being "The Place" to be. It beats our paradise-like weather, has usable public transit, and has so many places of interest. It's no wonder its some of the most valuable land in the world.
So true. There are big issues here for sure. But there's a lot to love.
As soon as I saw the title, my first thought was the Ferry system.
I've done the junior version before, amtrak to Diridon, Caltrain to SF, Ferry to Jack London, and BART back home.
Yeah I really wasn't sure how to title this one. "I went around the outside of the san francisco bay by public transit only and also set a world record I think" was just way too long. Ferries don't go around the outside, but if they did... I love the ferry.
@@AdamDoesNotExist makes sense, great video really enjoyed! Next challenge: The ferry's :D
@@jmm5994 Thank you! I've taken the ferry in a bunch of videos and love it! Maybe the next video is a speed run of every single ferry line!
Somewhere in Petaluma (but in what proximity to the bus station I know not) there's a "SMART" train station which you could have ridden to the end of the line in Larkspur. From there a short walk to the ferry terminal to SF ⛴️ But I assume that would have taken longer and you would not have made 5pm, most likely. I wasn't sure if the ebike ride was "cheating" but I have ridden around the Bay on my bike in less than 8 elapsed hours from Berkeley to the Dumbarton, north to the GG bridge to San Rafael-Richmond Bridge. The "Big Loop" like you did is also possible by bike but definitely would take more than 8 hrs. Great adventure 🚆🚍🚍🚉🚄🚆😮
I also did that version (and have a video about it), but I took Amtrak to Diridon, VTA to Mountain View, Caltrain to Millbrae, BART to Balboa, Muni to Embarcadero, Ferry to Oakland, San Joaquins to Martinez, and then Amtrak back home! :)
Bro I didn't look at the channel before watching the entire video and when I found out you have less than 50K Subs I was mindblown. The camera work and editing is spot on, and the engagement is great. Keep it up!
Thank you! That means a lot!
I was thinking the same thing! Great stuff!
Between this and the ad for a Santa Cruz Metro bus to Big Basin Redwoods State Park I saw this morning, I’m feeling the call to adventure!
Hahaha. Exactly what I wanted to hear. Thank you!
Just moved to SF. Loving the public transportation here!
Edit: I smiled at 14:40. It feels good when running for a connection works out
For a region of this size I think our transit is really good. And I can't tell you how many times I've run for connection and it didn't work out. Glad this one made you smile!
New music venue in sf north beach coming fall 🎵
I think you've invented a new sort of Cannonball Run for the Bay Area!
It would be cool if people start doing this!
“Endurance” was one of the best books I’ve ever read. Absolutely incredible story. Love your Bay Area adventure videos. I’ve lived here for 30 years but I guess I’m always the one doing the driving, so it’s nice to be a passenger for once!
Well thank you! Whenever I need to stop feeling sorry for myself, Endurance is a good thing to remember.
Kudos to you! I’ve lived in the Bay all my life and have only once or twice ever been to the North Bay. Your video is proof we need more investment in public transit, and rail infrastructure.
The North Bay is great! Though you're right, tough to get there by transit.
Living here in the bay this is incredible. This has given me some great ideas. Nothing to this big of a scale but definitely on this line of thought I love it.
Amazing! There are so many transit based trips you could do!
Represent ! Love all the videos that are Bay Area related! Even as a native, there is so much out there to explore still in the Bay. Transit was a huge part of my life as a child taking it to Chinatown and the Marina for school! The only time I take transit now is the BART from the East to visit family members who are still in San Francisco!
So true!
You’re a soldier! Congrats !
I travel a lot between SF, south and east bay, so it was fun seeing you take some of my routes. Glad you did the Mountain view to VTA light rail transfer. It saves you time getting out of San Jose Caltrain.
I’ve never done the San Pablo bay parts on public transit, so that was fun to see!
Keep at it! Love your channel!
Thank you! The Amtrak bus was not super nice, but the view was great. I had never been up there on 37 either.
Mini-adventure at home was cool. I was forced to look at public transportation options when I started commuting to Fremont from San Francisco. It opened my eyes to mixed-modal transportation and personal electric vehicles. I didn't want to sit in traffic so I learned how to commute using public transportation along with electric scooters, electric bikes, Onewheels and electric unicycles which all make commutes so much more engaging. I don't need to commute any longer but love riding around metropolitan areas on my electric unicycle. Anytime you are on an electric unicycle it is a great mini-adventure.
I used to bike into downtown SF for work. It's so much better than being stuck in traffic!
I live about 7 minutes away from the Bart station in San Jose. I always thought about doing something like this when I have some free time. A nice little mini adventure!
You should! I might cut off the north bay part, and take a ferry from SF to Oakland.
Me and a few friends actually did a bit of a shortened version of this back in November; we got on BART in stages from El Cerrito, Berkeley, and Fruitvale down to Milpitas, VTA to Diridon, Caltrain to Millbrae, BART to Balboa Park, MUNI Metro and bus to various places around SF, a ferry ride to Jack London in Oakland, then splitting off there to BART and AC Transit home. I would love to attempt the full version, though it'd definitely be a hard ask for five people!
Cool! Honestly your version sounds more fun. I did the Ferry to Larksburg then SMART train up to Santa rosa for another video. I didn't go around anything, I'd recommend that before getting back on that Amtrak bus!
I also did that! Besides I was coming from Oregon, so I also used the Coast Starlight to and from the Bay Area!
What a boss capturing b-roll on BART👏
Bart has some great views. Getting usable audio though... very difficult
Check your volume on your computer plus you tube volume, the volume was fine for me.
More public transit adventures, please!
Editing one as we speak! Hopefully will have it done by Sunday.
Cool project. I also loved endurance fwiw.
Thanks! Such a good book.
So glad that you found the Amtrak bus connection, and just in time! When you were heading to Vallejo, I was worried knowing that there are ZERO regular/local service transit options between Napa and Sonoma Counties. Seems like a big missing link. SMART is slated to extend to Solano County one day, so that should close this gap and make the challenge easier.
Me too! That was one of a few moments where I thought I wasn't going to be able to make this video. I just assumed there would be a bunch of options in the north bay. Excited for the SMART train expansion.
I’m Dutch and I was amazed by the difference in quality and frequency between the systems here and what I saw in your video. Very interesting, I didn’t know it was that big, but apparently we are blessed here
I will never forget the light rail running through perfectly manicured grass in Rotterdam. Europe is of course much more densely populated. But you sure do have it good
@@AdamDoesNotExist yeah, I’ll make sure to appreciate it more haha
The bay area is annoying because so much of the transportation is set up at the county level. So you have 7+ independent county transit systems, plus BART, Caltrain, and Amtrak between them. It means weak spots can easily fall through the gaps.
@@BowlOfRed Yeah, maybe that’s the main difference from here, here everything is national with a few regional companies on smaller routes.
@@BowlOfRed There are more than two dozen transit systems in the Bay Area!
I saw two reporters ride every transit system in the bay area in one day and post about it on twitter. I would love it if you did a video traveling on every form of public transit in a day. I am really enjoying your videos great work
Impressive. I’ve rode on every mode of transportation in this video just not in the same day of course lol. Now I’m inspired to go around the Puget Sound using every form of Public Transportation up here in Seattle! There’s a lot of similarities the Puget Sound has with the Bay in terms of getting around. LINK-BART. Sounder Train-Cal Train. Muni-KCMetro. SF Bay Ferry-WA State Ferries, etc.
Sick, you should totally do it!
7:25 you missed a great opportunity to ride one of the best commuter light rail systems in the bay, the SMART train. It runs from Larkspur to Santa Rosa, and is much nicer than the golden gate transit busses.
Sure is! But unfortunately it would have added a lot of time to this trip.
Agree SMART is a beautiful ride!
I was really surprised you didn't use SMART
I lived in Fremont for years and I always wanted to try this. Living vicariously through you!
This was great, and I can't believe you didn't plan out all the connections in advance! If I were doing it, I would pack a lunch, snacks, and map out all the bathrooms ahead of time😅
That's what I should have done!
Thank you! This was a great video. It helped ease my wanderlust I have at the moment, subscribed. what a great video! 👌🏽
Awesome! Thank you!
Hi Adam, I found your channel and wanted to say I really enjoy your videos. I have wanted to do this for a while, but I moved to the Bay Area in 2019 for college and have yet to do it. Anyway, thanks for the fun videos.
Thank you! I'd recommend doing the southern half. Caltrain, VTA, and BART, then either Ferry From Richmond, Valejo, or somewhere south of Marin!
I moved to the Bay Area from Austin a year and a half ago, and in that time I’ve driven to all of these areas (I live in Walnut Creek). Really cool to learn you can actually get (literally) around the Bay on public transit!
I’m impressed with how you did the circular and also the uniqueness and commentary of your video!
Thank you!
Absolutely love the content you’re making about the Bay Area bro. Been subscribed since you had less than 1k subscribers. Keep it up!!!
Thank you! Appreciate you!!
When are you moving back, dude?
I like the idea of 9-5 adventures. It's nice to have a word for such a thing - and I realize I was doing a lot of that in July and earlier this month, nearly every day. Source: rode each (non-express) VTA bus and light rail route end to end.
Nice! There's a ton of great things you can do by just riding public transit around throughout the bay
Back in the 80’s a reporter for the Contra Costa Times would do this every year … his stories were fascinating … he’s still around and I believe he’s working in the State Legislature …
That's cool! I searched for that but still not finding any records.
@@AdamDoesNotExist might have been early 90's ... he did it for a few years ...
I know Heather Knight, working for the Chronicle, did a variation of this a few times.
@@michaelinnes2754 I know she was part of the Total Muni project as well. Very cool!
Amazing video, makes me miss my days in the bay. Think I might have to go back for another adventure now.
I'm sad that I've never took the chance to go around the entire bay by bike while living there,
the idea was always in my head with the ever so growing network of cyclist routes & parks being built around the bay's coast.
Proud that someone could do it without a plan.
That would be quite a journey! There is the bay trail and I believe some people have done it by bike, but we're talking days!
Nice. That’s something I would do. I just spent 2 days bike riding along the entire length of the Los Angeles River while I was staying in LA for a few days. Also, I used to live in the Bay Area and love it there. But most of my adventures are in NYC and environs now
Wow! NYC is definitely bigger and denser. In the time I've spent there, there's clearly a lot more going on.
This video has inspired me to finally do a BART tour! I have always wanted to take BART and do/see something at every stop on the system.
Let's goooo! That makes me so happy to hear.
Funny enough I’m planning to do this with friends but only the lower bay (SJ to SF to OAK and back) but I planned this a month in advance!
YOUR’ER doing it on the spot and across the whole bay! Hats off to you 👏
Thank you! Hope you all have a good time!
@@AdamDoesNotExist also I like to mention we’re doing our journey this Friday so when I saw your video I said to my friends “Dammit we were beaten!” 😅
You deserve a million+ views on this video man! Crazy underrated
Thank you!!
Been watching your videos for a couple months and I really enjoy them a lot. Hopefully your channel blows up soon my friend
Thank you! I really appreciate that!
Cool Bay Area transit video! Nice and wholesome!
Note: BART is not a subway and you can't really use it like one. BART is a heavily interlined S-bahn type of system, designed around transfers. Unlike with a more subway/metro style of system, there are no single-line routes. All the lines start out in the deep suburbs and overlap with each other in the urban cores in SF and Oakland. You don't need to wait for the precise BART line that goes to your destination. Every destination in the system is accessible with at most one transfer! That's how interlined systems work vs the more single-line subway/metro systems like the NY Subway or the Paris Metro. BART works more like the LIRR in NYC or the Paris RER.
The bottom line is that you get on whatever train shows up first and transfer to the train you need at the next transfer station. All the lines are timed in an extremely clever and complex way to make this possible with nearly zero time loss! So you didn't need to take the Orange line up to Richmond. You could have taken the Green line and transferred at West Oakland. This would have saved you the extra 10 minute wait for the Orange line train and you could have used the bathroom at Milpitas station.
Never understood what the s bahn was until this comment. Cool explanation
Yeah I didn't explain that last part super well. I knew I could have transferred, but that would have added extra time. Things were going to so well that I felt like I should push for the best time. The smarter thing to do would have been to start at Lake Merritt so I could have taken either orange or green.
I am always blown away by how on time BART trains are. When people make fun of American trains I always think... you should check out BART!
@@oh...hi. Thank you! Thank you! I'm here all week 😁😁😁
@@AdamDoesNotExist Ok, you're triggering my train nerd genes hard! Love the content by the way. Please do more Bay Area transit videos! Including ones where you head out of the Bay via transit to places like Monterey, Santa Cruz, Tahoe, etc.!
Here comes the explanaion.
Ironically, BART is actually a very on-time system, despite what some people say online. It simply has to be in order to function properly as designed. They don't really have a choice.
They've had a bad couple of years recently because Alsom/Bombardier pooped the bed on the new train deliveries, and BART had to operate their old and crumbling fleet for a good extra four years. That fleet was already on its last legs and was breaking down all the time. And there were often no parts whatsoever to fix it properly.
This drove down BART's on-time ranking for its historically stellar 97% (which is higher than the Tokyo Metro!!) to about 90% and sometimes 87%! This was extremely detrimental for a system like BART that is entirely built around timed cross-platform transfers. Some riders even forgot that the transfers existed because of how unusable they had become.
But BART is now back up to 95% reliability with the all-new fleet, and climbing back to its historical average of 97%. So we're almost back to the normal BART of yesteryear! And this will only keep improving as they're ironing out the kinks with the new trains. The new trains are quite literally 2x more reliable than the old ones!
Thanks for all the info! The new trains are so good. I was actually going to film another transit related video yesterday. I don't want to give too much away, but they were single tracking through Orinda so had to delay. Hopefully next weekend!
Nice challenge! I did a similar thing where I had to transfer in every Bay Area county in one day. In a few years, they’re actually planning to have a bus along Hwy 37 between Vallejo and Novato/San Rafael every 30-60 min or so!
That's a really cool challenge! Good to hear about that bus. It means this "record" can absolutely be broken!
wow, that Solano Express bus looks really cool!
Probably the nicest bus I took. It continues across the 580 bridge into Marin, but that wasn't far enough north for me!
Man, this channel’s growing! And it’s been quality since day 1 - Love it!
Be well!
Thank you!
The Rolling Stones concert was amazing. Also, nice video!
It really was! My first time seeing them. And thank you!
11:29 express train! That's a win 🏆
Massive win! And so lucky. It was a limited train, not the baby bullet which does go just a bit faster.
we love bay area speedrunning 🤩
Wow! I'm starstruck. I was planning to do your BART route this past Saturday, but service on the yellow line messed up my plan. If I do make a video about it, you'll be in it! I love the story of you noticing that that Berekely student's route was faster... in reverse.
Edit: And that the "berkeley record route" was initially your route is another amazing part of the story!
Smart train is fun too ! Hope it gets built up more
Same. I wish it went further south. I've taken it in other videos, and it's lovely. But it's no super convenient.
@@AdamDoesNotExist yea I can’t wait til it’s up to Cloverdale and better bay connections. You should check out the original BART plan that went to Cloverdale it’s insane how far it could’ve possibly gone
Another awesome SF Bay Area Adventure video especially when it's done on public transit! It kind of reminds me of the Total Muni and Total Transit Challenge that was embarked by Heather Knight and Peter Hartlaub 😀😀👍👍💯💯🚊🚊🚌🚍🚍🚇🚇🚎🚎🚋🚋
Glad you enjoyed it! I've never heard of the Total Transit Challenge, but just found the Chronicle article on Heather and Peter's Journey. Thanks for telling me about it!
Jeez, I want to try some of these now. Growing up in Redwood City and now living in Petaluma, it'd be fun to experience the area that I call home. Also, since I have a background in GIS, mapping these stops and public transit would be super interesting. Thank you Adam for doing these videos and hopeful I encounter you some time around the SF Bay Area!
You should! And honestly adding maps to this video would have made it much easier to understand, especially for people that don't know the area well.
Gonna try this with my son. Will check for a busline that goes from Vallejo to Petaluma. Great video!
i live in marin and rely on the public transit here and in the city! at around 9:26 there was a transfer of bus drivers!! they always swap out at the san rafael transit center bc the bus rides are really long. especially the 101 which goes from santa rosa to the mission. even going from san rafael it takes almost an hour just to get to the toll plaza. this video was so cool! lovely to see some north bay rep especially as someone who’s such a huge transit nerd. but yeah the transit here sucks leaving since there’s no bart connection. makes it take at least a couple hours to get to the east bay depending on the area and at least an hour and a transfer or two to get into the city.
Glad you liked it. I thought something like a driver transfer might be going on, but we were there for a while! Normally I'm a bit more relaxed, but this was a special day haha!
I didn’t have a driver’s license until after I graduated from college. At Cal, I didn’t need a car, and used BART, AC Transit & Golden Gate Transit to get places.
It's great to see a lot of transit world records are being set (and even replaced) this year.
I want to find out if this could be beaten... 🤔
I'm pretty happy with the time I got, but this could absolutely be beaten. I don't know if this is the best route, but even if you stuck with this route there are faster ways to take the Amtrak bus, and Caltrain.
I love your videos man keep it up !
Thank you, will do!
I did a similar transit loop but used the Richmond bridge as the Northern boundary because I knew there wasn't a regular bus service crossing the north rim of the bay. Wild how you made that work with the Amtrak thruway bus! A fun modification would have been taking the SMART train to connect Petaluma to San Rafael!
Cool! If I was doing this purely for fun, the smart train would have been my choice.
Wow, what a great video. This is actually something I have been wanting to do for the longest time. The depressing thing is the amount of completely empty stations. Public transit is only sustainable if people use it.
It was really fun to do. Keep in mind, I was taking most of these routes at times when they would be a bit less busy, and in the opposite direction of most commuters. The numbers aren't what they were pre pandemic, but transit is still crowded during heavy commute times!
Awesome vid bruh
Thank you!
New subscriber who grew up from the Bay. I'm really enjoying the recent content you're putting out. Keep the videos long. And you should hit up Santana Row/ Valley Fair and that would be the closest thing of how SF Westfield used to be.
Awesome! Thank you!
Great video! I’ve planning for a long time to take the ACE train from SJ to Stockton, and somehow get home via other means of public transport.
Another idea would be starting from South Bay, try go as far north as possible (thinking of SMART train etc) and fly home 😂
That would be cool! I've been trying to figure out a way to take public transit to LA, then fly back. But still working on that one!
The furthest distance from south to north that I've found so far is from Gilroy to Cloverdale (via Caltrain, GGT 101, and Sonoma County Transit 60). Not sure how long it would take but It might be hard to do in a 9-5, especially if you're trying to get back the same day!
Great video, great beer!
Thank you! Has to be the most misunderstood beer right?
Impressive! I used to vacation out in the Bay area! I used only Public Transit to get around One of my adventures was to go from the City 🏙️ all the way down to the Gilroy Garlic Festival and back in a day! Here's how I did it: MUNI Bus to the Cal Train station which was at 4th and Townsend way back then! Cal Train down to the Cahill Station in San Jose Then a #67 VTA Bus to Joaquin and Miller and walk into the Festival from there! Reverse course for the return trip!
Fun! I would love to make a video at the garlic festival, but unfortunately they've been on hiatus for the past few years. It sounds like the city and the festival are having a hard time figuring out how to get past the tragedy a few years ago. Hopefully it comes back!
very nice video really enjoyed it
Thank you!
That was fun! It's also fun recognizing all the landmarks, or, landscape. It took me a moment to understand the Guinness connection 🤔Duh. But, can we talk about how disappointing it is that you can no longer find Bass Ale to pair with Guinness for a classic, Black & Tan??? There's a video idea, take a roadtrip to find Bass Ale! You find Pliney!
I go with Smithwicks these days. It's different sure, but it get's the job done!
LOL. A long time ago (1976) I spent a winter in McMurdo, Antarctica as the station physician. While there, I read "Endurance" and couldn't sleep for a few nights. Now I live in San Francisco and was wondering how the heck you were going to get around the north end of the Bay. The rest of the trip should be a piece of cake. Having had all the adventure I need in Antarctica (and other places around the world), it never occurred to me to tackle a round the Bay on public transit trip. I mostly feared getting stuck in Vallejo (yeah, from there you can short circuit taking the ferry back to SF but that would be cheating).
That's incredible! I read Endurance in Oakland. Not sure how I'd have handled it had I been in McMurdo. Probably not well!
I’ve done the same route a year ago starting from Stockton, and made my way around, but with my electric scooter as well
Electric scooter would make this a lot of fun!
BAY AREA FOREVER!!
I did this exact same trip to get to a hybrid internship a few times, and all for free thanks to the pilot BayPass program! BART to Caltrain to VTA to BART 😊
What a loop to do regularly!
@@AdamDoesNotExist Fortunately only had to go in person a few times
great job i approve of this video
Thanks! I approve of this comment
Such a fun video!
Thank you!
Vallejo represent! I'm a Soltrans driver and am quite familiar with the R line from El Cerrito. I would've loved it if you were on my bus as I love figuring out how to get around. Always wondered about the and assumed from VTC you catch the Vine (that cutaway bus you talked to at Vallejo) and from there they somehow connect to Marin.
You should take up motorcycle riding. Every trip is an adventure.
That's cool! I love the idea of riding motorcycles. I used to ride on the back of my Dad's. But I'm worried I'd be the sort of person that gets hurt.
@@AdamDoesNotExist ...because every trip is an adventure! 😅
Good thing you were able to take the Amtrak bus. There is a way to do the loop without it (Vallejo - Napa - Calistoga - Lakeport - Ukiah - Santa Rosa - San Francisco) but you never would have made it home by dinner or even the same day.
I've since found the transitland map, and your article, and it is kind of shocking that nothing really connects the North Bay Counties.
What would the challenge be for LA 🤔 you've inspired me man!
Let's goooo! LA is a different animal. There are so many things you could try!
ur vids are so underrated bro
Thank you!
A couple months ago, I tried going from SF to LA only using public transit (no Amtrak, Greyhound, just local busses and BART in the bay). Did not take a day, but did it
Really! How!? And how long did it take you?
Really cool video. I never bothered using BART before, but it doesn't actually seem as bad as it's reputation.
Don't get me wrong, bart has issues. But I'm a huge fan. It's so reliable, inexpensive, and if it gets you where you need to go, worth taking.
Cool video, you should try doing all the transit agencies in the bay area some time (although it might take a while lol)
I've thought about it! tomo tawa linja did it about a month ago
This was an amazing video truly amazing. The adventure of getting lost in different cities is fun. But my question is is you wanted to prioritize enjoy those cities how many many cities and for how long. Let’s say 9am-9pm yes enjoy those cities different activities eating etc.
Only complaint is when you get a higher budget would be nice for a graphic of everywhere you were and traveling there at that moment. I never been to SF and wanna have a vague idea of how things are. Looks beautiful but and I also care about the nighttime Energy/aesthetic from the cool parts
Thanks! If I did this again I think it would be more fun to do it with other people and do it a lot slower. And you're right it would just take a whole lot longer to add fancy graphics in and I really don't have that time. So I tried to talk about where I was, and where I was heading as much as possible.
I love this video and how it’s indirectly about you fulfilling your adventure needs. However, I also think this video is a great demonstration of the quality of the Bay Area public transportation. I just got back from a trip in Europe, and I was in Denmark and Sweden, and something that they really have done well there is their transportation.even in a place like the Bay Area that supposed to care more about its people, transportation still doesn’t live up to the quality that you will find in places in Europe or Japan
European transit is legendary. Though they do have an advantage with their population density. I'd say we do pretty well here considering the circumstances. If the transit 2050 plans actually take shape, then we're really in business!
@@AdamDoesNotExist true, what if that transportation guy runs for president? That would be cool. What are the 2050 plans?
Btw, how can I email you for a business inquiry?
@@AnoahWang The Bay Area 2050 is a big urban planning project and part of that is focused on transportation. They want to extend bart, build a new transbay tube, etc. I saw a pretty cool map but can't seem to find it any more.
And if you want to shoot me an email, there's an address in the description on my channel page.
Woah!! This is super cool! I’ve thought about doing this for the longest time. Didn’t know it was possible! Enjoy the content as always!
Thank you! It was a fun trip!
I only wish you took the SMART train in Sonoma county!
Same! But it sure would have added a lot of time.
I actually do this a lot since I live in Santa Clara and my family lives in Santa Rosa.(minus the san pablo bay portion) But due to the timing of it I usually do a full circle around the bay
Now, I want to try this but not sure I want to spend that much time in public transportation 😂😅
There's a much faster version just around the San Francisco Bay proper (without San Pablo Bay which is only technically part of the Bay):
* BART to Richmond.
* Bus to the San Rafael SMART station.
* Bus to SF via the Golden gate to SF, or the prettier version with a bus to Sausalito and ferry to SF from there.
* Bus, Muni Metro, or walk to Caltrain.
* Caltrain down to Mountain View.
* VTA light rail to Milpitas.
* And finally, BART back up to wherever you started from.
This way is faster and much prettier, especially if you opt for the Sausalito ferry! There's some genuinely world class views on the way! Happy exploring!
It's a long journey for sure. If you do it, turns out that Amtrak bus timing is key. Unless you find a better route...
Born and raised in Marin and while I love all the bay imo sf and Marin are the most beautiful
I agree!
Good video! And congratulations on breaking the world record. But I think you could've done it faster if you took the SMART train from Petaluma to Larkspur and then the ferry to SF.
I looked at the SMART train but it would have been slower unfortunately. The Ferry didn't quite meet my admittedly made up rules. It goes through the bay, not around.
dude, the minute you got to Vallejo, my immediate thought was "Ferry. take the ferry." Not saying Amtrak isn't a great alternate (cuz I didn't know it went out that way), but yeah.
Yeah I wish. I've taken the ferry in so many videos but it goes through the bay, not around it really, so I didn't want to do it this time.
Thank You!
You're welcome!
VALLEJOOOO ❤️❤️❤️ ah I could make so many recs :)
I was really surprised by Vallejo! The transit area was nicer than Petaluma. Obviously the transit center isn't the full story of a town, but Vallejo...
12:40 pro tip CalTrain has bathrooms on board!
They were locked!
I don’t like the fact that some BART lines only run every 20 minutes. I personally think they should discontinue the red and green lines and just run the yellow, blue, and orange lines every 10 minutes.
Someone else in the comments said they were considering that. I guess we'll see!
Great video but was taking the shared e-bike not a form of private transportation?
Yeah it's a grey area. They're operated by Lyft but subsidized by the city. They're also on city land and part of the city's public transportation plan, so good enough for me!
Guinness 🤤
Did this in 2018. San Jose to Petaluma and back. And that was before BART went to Barryessa.
Nice! Did you get off in Milpitas and do the VTA connection? I'm glad I found that before taking Caltrain all the way to SJ.
Last time I was in San Francisco I did a shorter version only covering the Southern portion of the bay so I could do it entirely by train. Starting at Powell St. in San Francisco, I took the Muni Metro to 4th & King; Caltrain to Mountain View; VTA Light Rail to San Jose Diridon; Amtrak Capitol to Oakland Coliseum & BART back to Powell. BART terminated at Fremont at the time so I couldn't catch it at Milpitas. Don't remember how long it took.
Cool. There are a bunch of other ways to do this trip, especially now. It would be interesting to see how fast it could be done.
Caltrain has a restroom on the train that you can use next time so you won't have to hold it in!
I know, but it was locked on this train!
Vallejo is always tricky when it comes commuting to Petaluma area. I had no idea though that there was a bus. Good to know!
On a side note, we use the Vallejo ferry to get to SF. Not sure if that would have been a technical cheat to go around the bay for you
I should also add that I enjoyed the video :)
Yeah you're right. I love the ferry but it wouldn't technically be going around. Glad you liked it!