So I'm lying, then. As are all of the traffic maps that show eastbound bridge traffic being wide open in the mornings, south 280 and 101 being wide open in the mornings, and the opposite in the afternoons?
It doesn't really take me 20 minutes to go 22 miles in the heart of Silicon Valley at rush hour?
My personal experience of driving south from ~San Francisco down to Sunnyvale along 101 in the mornings is that it takes me around 1.2 hours, on average. I'm not sure what traffic maps have to say about it, but every time I drive down I hit backups at Millbrae, San Mateo around 92, Menlo Park (the Facebook exit), Palo Alto which is just always congested, and Mountain View.
In fact, the traffic is the deciding factor for me in ruling out regularly working in the Peninsula.
Where do you start, and at what time of day, to get 20-minute drive times? I'd love to know the secret.
Ish. Actually I live pretty much right next to Facebook, so Facebook traffic is my traffic. Trust me, when I commuted from the north, I'd spend 3-5 minutes sitting on my own damn offramp just to go a few hundred feet to my house while all the FBers and bridge folk were trying to turn left onto a gridlocked overpass :)
There are choke points along 280, 380 interchange, 92, sand hill, and lots more going south, going north there are msny more, but you could have a commute such that you avoid those. I was more talking about SF to valley (at least PA) and likewise from at least PA to SF.
It doesn't really take me 20 minutes to go 22 miles in the heart of Silicon Valley at rush hour?
okay then.