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In article <1edu60INNi5n@morrow.stanford.edu> pln@egret0.Stanford.EDU writes:
>Barry Shein (bzs@world.std.com) wrote:
>: 
>: 1. Berkeley is in Berkeley, CA. That is about 50 miles (80km) from San
>: Jose. There is a train system (CalTrain) but you might want to arrange
>: to have an automobile, particularly if you might be travelling odd
>: hours. San Francisco is roughly the same distance from San Jose
>: (probably 40 mi / 65 km). San Jose is south of SF and Berkeley, in the
...
>: 
>You need to be pretty brave to go from San Jose to Berkeley by
>public transportation.  You can ride CalTrain to San Francisco,
>but then you have to walk or take a bus several long blocks to
>a BART station.  CalTrain is pretty slow, too. (~1.5 hours from
>SJ to SF).

I went back and forth between San Jose and San Francisco a couple of
times by CalTrain at last year's SUG, and from SJ to Berkeley via
a county bus and BART.  The only really bad part was hiking down
to the CalTrain station to catch the last train to San Jose the
night before my 7:00 AM plane; crossing under the freeway is
annoying, and the neighbourhood, while not overtly dangerous,
is pretty empty in the evening.

The CalTrain stop in San Jose is a reasonable walk from the
convention centre; there are also buses which go there, if you
can find one.

Getting to BART by bus from San Jose requires patience and exact
change.  Getting on BART requires currency notes wrinkled to just
the right point to match the particular not reader you're using,
but it's nice not to have a car most places in San Francisco.
If you _do_ have a car but don't want to take it into the city, you
could investigate parking near BART stations in, e.g., Hayward.

Bob


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