San Francisco to Los Angeles on Public Transportation: Maps, Pictures, Insanity


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Huh. We just realized we're crazy.

How so? The Google map above traces the public transit odyssey your humble narrator undertook between San Francisco and Los Angeles. Fifteen transfers, seven local transit agencies -- ah, sorry, we're having transit flashbacks. BACK DOOR! BACK DOOR!

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(and that artwork doesn't just look like something Mark Ulriksen would create -- it is something Mark Ulriksen would create). For photos from my slow journey down south, click below.

Haight and Fillmore. Monday, 4:11 a.m.

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Joe Eskenazi
Amazingly, there were already 16 passengers aboard the N-Owl

Caltrain station, Fourth and King. Train departs 4:55 a.m.

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Joe Eskenazi
John Antoigue runs the 2.4 miles from his home every day to catch the 4:55 train to Palo Alto

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