Comments on: And then sometimes you end up on the freeway http://www.missionmission.org/2011/06/16/and-then-sometimes-you-end-up-on-the-freeway/ Saluting San Francisco's Mission District Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:29:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Andrew Sarkarati http://www.missionmission.org/2011/06/16/and-then-sometimes-you-end-up-on-the-freeway/#comment-34568 Andrew Sarkarati Fri, 17 Jun 2011 08:33:11 +0000 http://www.missionmission.org/?p=28931#comment-34568 except that i went to cal and by law hate stanfurd

]]> By: MM_fan http://www.missionmission.org/2011/06/16/and-then-sometimes-you-end-up-on-the-freeway/#comment-34567 MM_fan Fri, 17 Jun 2011 07:18:43 +0000 http://www.missionmission.org/?p=28931#comment-34567 we should retitle the post, “so you went to stanford, and now you live in san francisco, but you have a faint fondness of your past years”

]]> By: MrEricSir http://www.missionmission.org/2011/06/16/and-then-sometimes-you-end-up-on-the-freeway/#comment-34557 MrEricSir Fri, 17 Jun 2011 03:22:02 +0000 http://www.missionmission.org/?p=28931#comment-34557 Palo Alto actually has a lot of bike lanes and even dedicated bike paths. You can go all the way from Stanford to Los Altos almost entirely on dedicated bike routes. But if I hadn’t spent the first ~20 years of my life there, I wouldn’t know where to bike either. There’s very few signs indicated where to go (and where NOT to go.)

Fun fact: the Oregon Expressway overpass was built without any kind of EIR. Not only did it piss off neighbors, but it turns out it’s right in the middle of an underground river. When the power to the pumps goes out, the whole thing floods! Oops.

]]> By: Jen http://www.missionmission.org/2011/06/16/and-then-sometimes-you-end-up-on-the-freeway/#comment-34556 Jen Fri, 17 Jun 2011 02:25:20 +0000 http://www.missionmission.org/?p=28931#comment-34556 See, I knew there WAS one, but this was the land before I had a smartphone and I couldn’t figure out how to do it. I swore I was doing the right thing by turning there… I would quickly find out I was wrong. Absolutely my scariest moment ever on a bicycle.

]]> By: Anthony http://www.missionmission.org/2011/06/16/and-then-sometimes-you-end-up-on-the-freeway/#comment-34548 Anthony Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:25:58 +0000 http://www.missionmission.org/?p=28931#comment-34548 Last time I went through that tunnel, I thought hmmm, why does a tunnel smell like body odor? Coming up on the other side, there was a guy rearranging his shopping cart.

]]> By: El Pito http://www.missionmission.org/2011/06/16/and-then-sometimes-you-end-up-on-the-freeway/#comment-34547 El Pito Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:24:38 +0000 http://www.missionmission.org/?p=28931#comment-34547 Stay in the City. They don’t want you in their clean yet confusing suburbs!

]]> By: MrEricSir http://www.missionmission.org/2011/06/16/and-then-sometimes-you-end-up-on-the-freeway/#comment-34514 MrEricSir Thu, 16 Jun 2011 19:47:06 +0000 http://www.missionmission.org/?p=28931#comment-34514 North. Just head to California Ave, and there’s a tunnel at the end that goes under CalTrain and under Alma. It takes you out by Bowen Park.

Here:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&aq=0&sll=27.059126,-155.126953&sspn=62.707966,52.734375&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=N+California+Ave,+Palo+Alto,+California&t=h&ll=37.429248,-122.142274&spn=0.000628,0.000402&z=21

]]> By: MrEricSir http://www.missionmission.org/2011/06/16/and-then-sometimes-you-end-up-on-the-freeway/#comment-34513 MrEricSir Thu, 16 Jun 2011 19:43:50 +0000 http://www.missionmission.org/?p=28931#comment-34513 Wha?? No, no, no. The thing that goes under the track there is part of the station, it doesn’t get you to the same place as the tunnel (which was NOT rebuilt.)

]]> By: jmoe http://www.missionmission.org/2011/06/16/and-then-sometimes-you-end-up-on-the-freeway/#comment-34512 jmoe Thu, 16 Jun 2011 19:37:25 +0000 http://www.missionmission.org/?p=28931#comment-34512 It’s at the California Ave. train station. It used to be at the end of the street, by the fountain. They recently rebuilt it. Now you access it from the middle of the train station parking lot.

]]> By: Andrew Sarkarati http://www.missionmission.org/2011/06/16/and-then-sometimes-you-end-up-on-the-freeway/#comment-34511 Andrew Sarkarati Thu, 16 Jun 2011 19:28:51 +0000 http://www.missionmission.org/?p=28931#comment-34511 where???? north or south along the tracks?

]]> By: MrEricSir http://www.missionmission.org/2011/06/16/and-then-sometimes-you-end-up-on-the-freeway/#comment-34510 MrEricSir Thu, 16 Jun 2011 19:13:24 +0000 http://www.missionmission.org/?p=28931#comment-34510 The funny thing is that there’s a bicycle/pedestrian underpass only a few blocks away.

]]> By: Jen http://www.missionmission.org/2011/06/16/and-then-sometimes-you-end-up-on-the-freeway/#comment-34509 Jen Thu, 16 Jun 2011 18:24:35 +0000 http://www.missionmission.org/?p=28931#comment-34509 I have absolutely done that. At night, like an idiot. I’ve never pedaled so fast in my entire life as I did to get back up where I belonged. Thanks, Caltrain failure that convinced me to try to bike home from Mountain View…

]]> By: MrEricSir http://www.missionmission.org/2011/06/16/and-then-sometimes-you-end-up-on-the-freeway/#comment-34508 MrEricSir Thu, 16 Jun 2011 18:13:11 +0000 http://www.missionmission.org/?p=28931#comment-34508 Isn’t that Oregon Expressway? Not a freeway, exactly, but I sure wouldn’t want to bike there.

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