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Anybody take bikes on Caltrain?
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Join Date: Mar 2000
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I might be staying near Redwood City for the duration of WWDC, and I was wondering how feasible it would be to bike + take Caltrain up to the Moscone. It seems like there is some provision for cyclists, but is it likely to be busy and painful?
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Join Date: Oct 2000
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Should be no problem. Worse case there is always BART, bikes are permitted for sure. Just the nearest station will be Millbrae.
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Originally Posted by exca1ibur
Should be no problem. Worse case there is always BART, bikes are permitted for sure. Just the nearest station will be Millbrae.
It's literally only a 2 minute walk to Moscone from there. You'll also pass the Apple Store on your way if you wanna check it out. It's pretty amazing, the glass stairs are cooler in person.
CalTrain has wireless internet, by the way. I bet there're gonna be a lot of 'Books on those trains. 
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Yup. I go to Macworld every year for about the last 10. I take BART there every year because you get raped on Parking, even though I'm only 15 min from there.
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Millbrae is like 15 miles...
I was hoping someone could tell me how crowded the trains are, since it looks like at times cyclists can get bumped because of overcrowding.
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Originally Posted by exca1ibur
Yup. I go to Macworld every year for about the last 10. I take BART there every year because you get raped on Parking, even though I'm only 15 min from there.
ot: love your sig
btw, i heard that BART is awfully slow
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Originally Posted by blackstar
ot: love your sig
btw, i heard that BART is awfully slow
BART can definitely be a pain in the ass, but it's decently fast. The problem is that it's often delayed, and since you're subject to the whims of the schedule it may cause you to take a long time to get where you're going even if the trains are speedy.
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But BART doesn't go down to Redwood City.
I haven't taken the train in a long while, but I used to ride along that same line. The passenger cars then were double deckers with a vestibule in the center of the car. The vestibule had wide, double sliding doors allowing an opening about three times that of a conventional train access (I mean, one with access at both ends of the rail car).
Cyclists used to stand with their machines in that area. However, more recently, I think they removed some rows of seats in the lower level of some cars for wheelchair access and bicycle storage. I'm not sure about that because there used to be sliding doors in between the vestibule and the passenger compartment for air conditioning zones.
I'm not sure if they still use those old cars. Most trains I've seen on that line are new fancy things (color coordinated with red stripes to look like a passenger train rather than a freight engine with a string of commuter cars), but I think the arrangement is much the same.
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