I've often thought that while everyone complains about how hard transit is in the bay area, we're kind of screwed by geography.
The Bay is this big asshole sitting right in the middle of everyone. All of our development is spread out in a ring around the bay, which inflates the distance from one place to another. If you took a map and cut out the bay, then pulled all the shorelines together, it would only be 15 minutes to get from San Jose to Oakland or San Francisco. But nope, we have to go in a big damn ring.
The Bay is this big asshole sitting right in the middle of everyone. All of our development is spread out in a ring around the bay, which inflates the distance from one place to another. If you took a map and cut out the bay, then pulled all the shorelines together, it would only be 15 minutes to get from San Jose to Oakland or San Francisco. But nope, we have to go in a big damn ring.