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    I-880 - View of SF bay from I-880 flyover ramp to I-80 Eastbound

    I-880

    1.4(25 reviews)
    2.2 kmDowntown

    New job, new commute, and a new routine of spending 2.5 hours on 880 every workday. The job is…read moregreat, but the commute sucks. As another reviewer noted, it's not like this review will have any impact whatsoever on the experience that is 880, but since a Yelp page exists for this entity (I love you, Yelp), I may as well pitch in my $0.02, since I will now be spending the equivalent of 26 full days each year on this roadway. So, a few things about 880.... There is a FasTrak express lane that you can utilize if you want to be gouged with absolutely insane 'tolls', regardless of the fact that we already pay for these roadways with our tax dollars. The 'tolls' fluctuate constantly based on traffic. I've seen them as high as $15 - to travel in the express lane for stretches of less than 10 miles. It's positively criminal. Unless I am really in a pinch time-wise, I will not use the express lane, and would go broke if I used it daily. The 'tolls' are in effect all day, until 8pm I believe. The traffic congestion on this freeway is awful. At all hours. In both directions. It rivals the 405 in Southern California, which is basically a parking lot. I know it's not the freeway's fault the Bay Area is grossly overcrowded, but the fact remains that the traffic nightmares are a direct consequence of there simply being way too many people in the area. Next thing about 880 is that there are consistently a ton of big rigs all over the road - by far more than any other freeway I've traveled on. The obvious size difference between passenger vehicles and big rigs, along with the limited visibility the trucks create, inherently increases the risk of traveling on this roadway. Needless to say, drive with the utmost caution, leave plenty of room between your and other vehicles, and give yourself ample time to get to your destination. Ok, now for the positives, if you want to call them that.... First, the road is in fairly decent condition, by California standards anyway, despite the incredible wear-and-tear it takes each day. Second, and I can't believe I'm saying this, but so far, my fellow commuters have been, for the most part.... respectful. I have seen virtually no road raging. Perhaps it is because we are severely limited in how fast we can move along, but whatever the reason, I'll take it. Perhaps we're all just trauma-bonding. So, again, please drive carefully and respectfully, y'all, on 880, and in general. Let's do our best to make commuting as bearable as possible. Happy travels!

    Lets talk about I-880 also know as Satan's drive way to Hell, whether you are going North or South,…read morethe destination is always the same and you have to travel through hell to get there. I'm pretty sure AC/DC's "Highway to Hell" is about 880. Thanks Andrea for that. Way back in the day up by Oakland I called it the roller coaster since it was not level at all. Seriously take your motion sickness drugs. Well then mama GOD and Mother Nature agreed, and the Loma Preita earthquake took care of it in '89. So present day, no roller coaster but the traffic is horrendous all times of the day in both directions, weekdays and weekends. The express lanes help some but during commute times will break the bank with the fees. Where does this money go???? Nobody wants to know. Back in the day when I worked for Intel this was my commute a couple time a month even though I was based out of Folsom. Even now, done being a corporarate drone, I still travel the 880 to places south for non-work fun. In the morning you can be sure heading south it will jam up just before the 238. To this day I have no idea why. Frequently I would jump to side streets to get around backups. Not sure I ever saved time by doing this but way better than just taking it. The more I think about this I realize there may not be a fix for this. It would be great if all the people in the north took the jobs of people coming up from the south and the people in the south took the jobs of people traveling from the north. Maybe if I had the data I could program something like that to equalize this nightmare called I-880. My partner just started this commute and her stories are worse than any of my experiences. If I could gove it a 0 star or better multiple minus stars I would.

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    I-880 - Fremont,  I-880 South

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    VTA Station - Metro/Airport

    VTA Station - Metro/Airport

    4.0(9 reviews)
    2.6 kmNorth San Jose

    The first rule of naming transit stations is that the name should be simple. That means no slashes…read more Choose the name that's the most important or that is most different from other local station names. This station has a triply unfortunate name because (a) it has that slash, (b) "Metro" is an awful name for a metro station, because it sounds like the kind of station rather than the station itself, and (c) one would assume that it's possible to access the airport directly from a station with "Airport" in its name, but one would be incorrect, because in order to reach the airport, one has to take a VTA bus (line 60) from here. Wow, so that name is awful. How about the station itself? It's OK. Like most VTA stations, it feels too small and like it's in the middle of nowhere. Again, a station with the words "Metro" and "Airport" in its name feels like it should be right in the middle of all the urban action, but this station manages to make the surrounding area feel like an industrial wasteland even though most of San José (including its pathetic downtown) is decidedly suburban. I told Dan and Jorge that there would be parking near this station, but they assured me there wouldn't be. Lo and behold, when we came back here and had to get a ride because we hadn't parked, I spied three parking spots on one street within a block of the station. The bigger question is why I continue to allow a resident of Santa Clara and San José, respectively, to tell me, a resident of San Francisco, how difficult parking in a given area is. Jorge has never lived in San Francisco, but Dan has; he should know better. Difficult means there's absolutely no street parking within a mile, maybe a mile-and-a-half. I'm sure I would have been able to find a legal parking spot before we went to the concert.

    This is the 6th time I have used the bus to get to and from the airport…read more It comes frequently, is clean, free. Mornings - I like. Driver always seems to be in good mood. This morning was no exception. Really nice, friendly individual. Evenings - I am less a fan of. The drivers seem short, unfriendly. Once the bus left without me - even with me standing right in front of door. So I will avoid nights going forward.... But mornings are excellent =)

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    VTA Bus 500 - publictransport - Updated August 2026

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