Evan Siroky, has this great page full of ideas and ways to get between cities on public transit. My favorite is from Seattle to Victoria BC on bus and ferry.
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Interesting. It reminds me of how on the Northeast Corridor, one can go nearly the whole distance on various commuter trains.
Boston (MBTA) Providence (gap) New London (Shore Line East) New Haven (Metro-North) NYC GCT (gap) NYC Penn (New Jersey Transit) Trenton (SEPTA) Wilmington (gap) Perryville (MARC) Washington, DC
And in the San Francisco Bay Area, one can go a long way. From south to north:
King City (Monterey-Salinas 23,23X) Salinas (M-S 29) Prunedale (M-S 55) San Jose (VTA 180) Fremont (BART) El Cerrito del Norte (Fairfield Transit 90) Suisun City (Fairfield Transit 30) Sacramento (Yuba-Sutter Transit 70,99) Yuba City
I couldn’t find anything to Paso Robles or to Oroville, however.
Hi, Loren Petrich!
I used to be the guy who caused quite a stir on m.t.u-t from about 1997 to about 2005. I’m a bit better behaved online now.
I’m back in my home, the Twin Cities, probably for good. I miss the days when I used to travel and I especially miss Seattle and the Bay Area (that’s why I read this blog).
There’s not much in the way of intercity travel out of Minneapolis/Saint Paul by urban transit. One Rochester City Lines commuter bus from the 82nd Street LRT station in Bloomington to the Mayo Clinic with a stop in Inver Grove Heights. This commuter line is unusual in that it goes from a big city to a smaller city in the morning and the reverse in the evening. As I understand it, it’s primarily funded by Mayo on behalf of their employees but anyone can buy tickets.
Next year we will be getting commuter rail to Big Lake, MN. The line was originally going to go to Rice, MN through Saint Cloud. Now it looks as if a commuter bus may operate from Big Lake to Saint Cloud, making it the second possible intercity trip on urban transit from here.
Well nice hearing from you.
Sincerely,
John Charles Wilson
http://www.johncharleswilson.name
Actually I think it’s way easier to go to Anacortes and take the ferry to Vancouver Island from there.
You can go via Whidbey Island or via Mount Vernon.
The problem is Skagit Transit buses always seem to arrive at the Anacortes Ferry Terminal about 5 minutes after the ferry left. They need to work on the whole coordination thing. And also, I’m pretty sure only the early morning ferry goes all they way to Sidney.
Here’s a story on getting from Philly to NYC on public transit for $2.35
No, it’s on getting from Philly to *Trenton* for $2.35.
Thanx, JCW. What helped me was discovering that Monterey, Fairfield, and Yuba City have express buses to big-city areas.
And from Evan Siroky’s routings, one can get all the way from Salem, OR to Vancouver, BC by public transit. I live in Lebanon, OR, and while I can get to Albany and Corvallis by public transit, I can’t find any local buses that go to Eugene or Salem.