I recently took a new job working directly in the city of San Francisco, within the Financial District to be exact. Living in the peninsula 20+ miles away, I’m now taking public transportation to work for about 45 minutes (one way). Compared to the last 10 years of driving, commuting on the train offers a completely different dimension to the day. Furthermore, for a guy like me who loves to observe what’s around me, public transportation is a very fruitful environment for observation. Without further adieu, here are my observations, tips, and lesson’s from a month’s worth of public transportation on the Caltrain, the Muni Light Rail, and occasionally the BART. The observations will be listed in the following categories: Observations, Lessons, Tips and Suggestions, Phones & Technology, and Differences between the BART, Muni, and Caltrain. (more…)
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Commuting on the Train- A month’s worth of observations
Posted in Commuting, Lifestyle, Silicon Valley, Technology, tagged BART, Caltrain, Iphones on the train, Muni, Observations from Commuting on the Train on March 6, 2010| 2 Comments »
BART’s Transbay Tube- Underwater Train and Engineering Marvel
Posted in Technology, Travel, tagged BART, Engineering Marvel, Transbay Tube, Underwater Trains on September 20, 2009| 2 Comments »
Recently when I was in Hong Kong, I found out about a train that goes underwater from Hong Kong island to Kowloon peninsula. Likewise, living in the San Francisco Bay Area, the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) has a popular commuting train option that goes from San Francisco to Oakland through a tunnel placed under the bay—a distance of 6 miles when including the approaches from each station. Having lived in the Bay Area the last 9 years, surprisingly, I have never taken that train ride and for that matter, never taken a train trip through an underwater tunnel any where in the world. I’ve been wondering 2 things about these trains—1) what does it feel like to be on a train underwater and 2) how do they build such tunnels underwater in the first place.
This weekend I took my first BART ride from Oakland to San Francisco. I also discovered the way the BART tunnel was built and in general, the different methods of building underwater tunnels. (more…)
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