Yeah... According to
this weekday schedule for
BART's blue line, the last pickup at SFO is 11:46 PM.
Worry not -- you'll find your destination, and you will rock!
I am hoping at the very least that I can get on the subway and get downtown, and then possibly hail a cab to get me to the corner of Broadway and Kearny street (I am staying at the Green Tortoise hostel tomorrow night, and then meeting up to share a hotel room with one of the brothers-in-metal on here).
Interesting that I found two different directions from two different sites on how to get there.
On
www.hopstop.com, it has me doing the following:
Take BART from the airport to the Embarcadero stop (assuming I can catch the 11:16 train - hopefully the flight actually arrive early)
Take the F street car from the corner of Drumm and Market up to the ferry building
Take the #12 bus from the corner of Broadway and The Embarcadero to the corner of Pacific and Kearny, thus leaving me a short two-block walk left.
I guess if I really needed to, I can huff it from the ferry building along Broadway, since where I need to go is right on Broadway (at the corner of Kearny).
That actually sucks because, before, I would only had to take the #15 bus from the corner of Market and Greary right up Kearny to where I needed to go, but they took that line away!
However, on the
www.transit.511.org site, it has this:
Take BART to 3rd and Market
Walk to Greary and take the #45 to Pacific and Stockton.
That leave me with a pretty good hike (some 5 or 6 blocks) to get to the corner of Kearny and Broadway through a neighborhood that I have no idea as to what it's like that time of night.
If this was during the middle of the day, I'd would not mind it so much, but this is nearly at mid-night, carry a bag and a laptop, so I don't know what kind of area that would be to walk through. Maybe I am being paranoid (and admittedly, I've walked through D.C. pretty late at night with no problems).
Just curious to which of these would be the better to take - the hopstop option (via the F street car and #12 bus - at least that get me closer to my destination), or the 511.org option.
Thanks
EDIT: I tried the
www.hopstop.com one again, but giving it an 11:30 departure from the airport time instead of 11, and it gave me the same directions as the 511.org site (I guess I could take either the #30 or the #45 from the Market/Greary stop). I guess the real question is just how safe are these areas to be walking around carrying a bunch of shit at the middle of the night, i.e, will I have to walk through 'the hood' so to speak?. I don't care about the walk itself (and believe me, I've done some serious hiking, not to mention that I do ski on a semi-professional basis as well), but it is one thing walking through the wilderness during the day and another walking through an "urban jungle" in the middle of the night. I guess the only "wildlife" that I actually have a bit of fear for is the two-legged type.
