Godfrey
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It's now quite horrid. Once upon a time, I could get nearly anywhere from San Mateo to San Jose, from the Bay to Los Gatos, point to point in about 20-30 minutes, at nearly any time of day and night. And from Santa Clara to SF in about 45 minutes most times outside of an hour or so in the morning and evenings due to commute traffic. Nowadays, there are huge portions of the day when the highways are literally large, serially organized parking lots, you're forced onto surface streets, and the surface streets are mostly choked three quarters of the day in all directions as commute, school open and out moments, lunch, and evening "rush to entertain yourself" consume all available driving space. When I was still working at Apple (two and some years ago now!) five miles away, there were times when the 5.25 mile commute to my office there would take over an hour. It's gotten worse.I have not been there for the last 4 years - did traffic really become that bad nowadays? Good to know when I once come back in a few years what to expect ....
Nowadays, if I want to pop down to San Jose for a nice cup of coffee and pastry in my favorite cafe—a distance of 4.5 miles from my home—I can get there with the bicycle in 21 minutes nearly any time, in about a half hour to an hour in my car (including parking time), and in about 45 minutes or so on the motorcycle (same as the car, plus 10-15 minutes due to getting gear on and off at each end). It's absurd; I take the bicycle nearly all the time now...
The Anti Destination League struck again today, so I've deferred my trip to SF until tomorrow or Wednesday.
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