San Francisco Parking Question

You could park in the garage, although I'm not sure why you'd hate yourself so much that you'd want to actually drive into the city.

http://www.unionsquareshop.com/parking.html

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Well, if you want a good spot come early in the morning. Make it a day trip or something.

You also have the option of driving to a Bart station, parking there and taking the train in the rest of way in from Sacramento. During the week it's just a pain and you are better off with a garage, bus or Bart. You'd spend almost an hour or more just trying to find anything within walking distance downtown. The week-end, depending on what part of town you are going to, determines how easy it is to find a parking place on the street? If you come in on the week-ends before 10 am, it's not too bad. You only have to move your car during the week if you park in a commuter lane but those are most of downtown. Use the garage rather than risk getting a very large parking ticket if you must be close to something downtown.

Thanks everyone.

I am coming Wednesday for the night, and it looks like if I do BART, I'd get on at the MacArthur Station. So there's free parking there for sure, right?

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Most of the time when I get to SF from Sacto I park at the MacArthur station. You don't need to deal with the bay bridge. You take I-80, 680 and Hwy 24, that's the least congested route.

Okay. Just watch out that late at night in the MacArthur station!

My old boss would not allow me take the BART home at night even though that was the closest station.

I prefer Pleasant Hill or Lafayette Bart Stations if I'm going to my car late at night along I-80. Lafayette is probably a little bit easier right now since they have been doing some construction around Pleasant Hill but it is still a good location. I think MacArthur is better than West Oakland and the Berkeley stops just because of traffic. Walnut Creek is fine too? There has been some trouble at the MacArthur Station just because it is big and a lot of escape routes. Unless they have added more fencing since I have used that station? It's just a worry if it is late at night and you are alone that it would make me a little concerned about that station. Even the Richmond Station isn't bad and well lit. Since it feeds all of Marin/Sonoma Co., buses are running regularly and at night, except for cabbies, it isn't crowded. So it depends on how much you want to drive?

I know Muni can be a pain if your route happens to be in a construction zone or if you lack a more direct route to the show. People dress more casually now for a show it seems these days so that might make taking a bus a little more bearable if you don't have to dress up well? It isn't that bad.

I hope you have a good time. I have to bear the GG Transit and leaving the City it has a terrible location and I have to leave before midnight or I am stuck. I don't mind taking the GG Transit but having to leave the City so early when everything isn't convenient to the Theatre makes it less attractive to me.

Sorry.

It's just that two of my friends got mugged there when they were coming back from San Francisco last week.

Pleasant Hill is going through A TON of construction right now. It's pretty much a mess. If you were looking to park in that area, I'd recommend the Lafayette or Walnut Creek stations instead.

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Rowlin. West Oakland is probably the closest stop to the Bay Bridge. But, if you're coming from Sacto, the closest BART station with decent parking that's closest to I-80 is probably El Cerrito Plaza. Either way, at both El Cerrito or MacArthur parking is $1 a day. Make sure you memorize your stall number and when you get into the station you have to pay and then punch your stall number into the little machine *inside* the gates. So you have to get a BART ticket in the machine outside of the gates and then pay the dollar again in the other machine inside the gates.