From San Francisco airport to the South Bay by public transit

4/11/2019 9:52:22 AM

You take BART from the Airport station to Millbrae. BART headways are 15-20 minutes. In the off chance BART trains only go to San Bruno instead of Millbrae, take a BART in the other direction to Millbrae.

There, you will have an easy transfer to CalTrain, which takes you down the peninsula to Mountain View. All CalTrains stop at Millbrae and Mountain View, except for a few express trains in the morning (before 8:45) or afternoon (4-7) weekday commutes. At those times check the schedules in the station or ask commuters. CalTrain headways are 30-60 minutes.

At Mountain View you change to the VTA light rail. It has headways of 30 minutes or better.

The peninsula and south bay is certainly not the best of Bay Area transit. It’s much better in the City/Oakland/Berkeley.

12/13/2011 4:37:31 AM

What’s quickest will depend on exactly when you want to leave, but as a rough idea BART + CalTrain is likely to be simplest (even if bus/buses might be faster depending on your exact arrival time)

For the CalTrain down to Mountain View, you have a few trains an hour in the week (more in peak hours). Most of these stop at Millbrae, a few stop at San Bruno. The CalTrain timetable page has the details, and lets you download PDFs for offline checking. I’d suggest you save the appropriate one.

To get to the CalTrain, you’ll want to take the BART. Most likely you’d want to go to Millbrae, but the BART only goes there directly from the airport on evenings and weekends. In the day on a weekday, the BART will take you to San Bruno, where depending on CalTrain timings you’ll either way for a CalTrain, or ride the other BART line down to Millbrae to pick it up there. (It’s one stop from the Airport to either Millbrae or San Bruno)

You might find a bus quicker, but it likely won’t always be, and I’d guess it’ll vary much more.

So, I’d suggest you download the CalTrain timetable PDFs, then head to the BART station at the airport. Look at where trains are running to at that point, then compare that to the timetable PDF, and head to either San Bruno or Millbrae (maybe via San Bruno + change). You should be able to buy your tickets for both of these without needing coins – BART ticket machines take notes and some also take cards and CalTrain ticket machines take notes and cards

Alternately, use the SFO Free Wifi once you’re through customs, and ask google maps for the best thing for that minute.

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