Directions

[vvvexation]

Can someone tell me a way to get from Oakland to the Stanford campus that's got fewer steps than AC Transit -> BART -> Muni -> CalTrain -> shuttle?

Comments

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

For certain values of "good." I trust the TripPlanner only for information about transit agencies that I'm already familiar enough with to be able to read between the lines of its sometimes ridiculous directions.

[tenacious-snail.livejournal.com]

I've had pretty good experience with it, but that may just be because of where I've used it to go.

[catamorphism.livejournal.com]

It's good for sanity-checking when you think you know how to get someplace and want to make sure there isn't a better way. But yeah. To see my favorite TripPlanner bug, try getting directions from Marina Village Parkway in Alameda to 4th and Broadway in Oakland. (The results assume that you can walk on water.)

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

I don't even trust it to tell me if there's a better way, actually. Like, it'll tell me to take the bus from one BART station to another.