AROUND SAN FRANCISCO BAY 100 PERCENT BY RAIL

As of June 2020, it has been possible to completely circle San Francisco Bay by passenger rail using three transit systems, BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit), Santa Clara County's VTA (Valley Travel Authority), and Cal-Train. With this video, the starting and finishing station was the Glen Park BART station in San Francisco. The biggest challenges for this shoot were waiting for the right type of BART train (Bombardier) and destination (Berryessa), dirty windows, and unexpected disruptions. Cab views, sort of with BART, and Cal-train were achieved. The other issue was focus, focus, focus using a smart phone in subways with low light level. It is very difficult with dirty windshields on the cab shots especially when the phone can't be placed against the cab windshield with BART.
The video was shot and post produced in 4K but I encoded it in 1080p (good enough will the dirty windows, glare, other issues, and to save time in publishing). Enjoy.

[@Interstate107]

Awesome i like the VTA light Rail and BART

[@iWrick8111]

Its was possible to do this back in the 90s too. I did it twice however I used BART, Caltrain and Amtrak. BART from where I live in the east bay to SF. Caltrain to SJ and Amtrak (as it was then) Amtrak California now to Richmond and back on BART home.

[@TohaBgood2]

True. You can still do it via BART, then Capitol Corridor, and then Caltrain from Diridon. I wonder if that would be slightly faster than using the VTA light rail. That being said, the CC only does a few runs per day to Diridon. The VTA light rail connection runs every 15 minutes. So this new version is a lot more useful from a rider perspective.

[@chasemartin4450]

Can't wait for Caltrain electrification! The naysayers swear there'll be 20 trains per hour at peak times...

[@davidbilleci5891]

Hi JG-77....very strange but that is Sunnyvale for you...The city prefers more poles to support the overhead contact system with a single wire.

[@jg-7780]

Never heard about that Sunnyvale catenary thing, how bizarre! I would have thought the larger standard catenary ire setup to be preferable to the increased number of poles needed for the single wire variant.

[@claudinebernadettejimdar1681]

😎🤓🇮🇱🇮🇱🇺🇸🏴🏳️✝️🦃🥩🍉🍫 I was on the Bart Riding into SFO with my sister, Anna back in 2009. It was nice! I had a lot of luggage and we had brown bagged lunches with us to take to the plane. It was funny because I kept fumbling with my luggage. Went back into Cali 2013, but didn’t get to ride the Bart. Was stuck at my auntie’ place in San Leandro. If I’m back in Cali for a visit again, I’m going to hide. I do the exact same thing riding the L trains in Chicago too. If the economy in Cali goes to hell where it can’t grow, blame the 🔥. Everybody got to see Tent City where everybody went homeless. Did the country die because of a vibrator? 😂

[@Dr_KW]

Despite all the gentrification of redwood city in the last few years, the train station still appears to be the place to buy crack :) good to see things haven't changed that much.Thank you for this. Brings back memories of being a vehicle-less teen wandering around the bay area.

[@TohaBgood2]

So you know that there is a drug problem in your community. You complain about it on the internet, but you're unwilling to complain to your elected officials who are the only ones with any power to fix it. And you're surprised that there is problem? Cool logic you got there.

[@ishaqmo7200]

@@TohaBgood2you got access to her voting records or something?

[@TohaBgood2]

@@ishaqmo7200 What does this have to do with her voting record? It's about her unwillingness to do any actual advocacy with her electeds to solve the issue. Like many other Bay Areans, she's a whiner not a doer.

[@ishaqmo7200]

@@TohaBgood2 im just saying like how do you know that about this specific person

[@Nerdherfer]

Wow those BART trains look incredibly slow moving under San Francisco

[@Absolute_Zero7]

Not sure how true that is. the camera is zoomed in quite a bit, so the perspective is quite warped. Its almost certainly moving a lot faster than it seems.

[@Nerdherfer]

@@Absolute_Zero7 I meant they LOOKED slow, not that they actually are slow.

[@Cloudkirb]

They do, but they're normally like 70mph

[@lucaspadilla4815]

@@Nerdherfer yeah bart typically goes faster than the surface vehicle speed limits