To Sili Valley by transit + bike [Re: ANNOUNCEMENT - October 2002 B.A.D. Meeting in Walnut Creek]

[Tony Godshall]

On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 06:04:43PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Tony Godshall (togo@of.net):
> 
> > (I was thinking Union City BART via Dumbarton Bridge
> > but perhaps Fremont BART via SJ is better?)
> 
> Neither one is great.  If you bicycle from Fremont BART (Centerville
> District), you have to bike about ten-twelve miles further south,
> through Irvington District, Warm Springs District, and Milpitas,
> to cross the bottom of the Bay, which you'd so either via a connecting
> series of bicycle/pedestrian paths adjoining CA-237, or by going further
> south still and using Tasman.  

1. Is 237 OK?  SF Bay Trail map ...

  http://www.abag.ca.gov/bayarea/baytrail/maps/bt_map3.html

... indicates a segment of it is bike route.

2.  This seems to indicate that there's a way to cut the
corner along 880 and hitting 237.  Well, perhaps not a
shortcut but the only non-freeway takes you a ways East.

> If you cross the Dumbarton Bridge instead, you first have to run the
> East Palo Alto gauntlet (not too bad, these days), then somehow parallel 
> US-101 for a half-dozen or more miles to Mountain View.  There aren't
> any really good bicycle routes through that stretch.  I've looked.

This favors the SJ route, I guess.  Even on roads, the map
site agrees (tho in my experience knows the SJ route sucks 
more traffic-wise) .

> Some of these may help:  http://www.transitinfo.org/Bikes/bikemap.html

Yeah, I use transitinfo.org all the time.